Vahobjon cho‘lga chiqqanda ham, Denovga yetib kelganda ham uning oppoq, sochlarini, ajin qoplagan yuzlarini, ayniqsa, iyagidagi tirtiqni ko‘z oldidan nari ketkizolmadi.

He was paler, thinner, pouchy under the eyes, drooping in, the corners of his mouth, and he showed the scars of a boil on the side of his chin; his voice seemed flatter and his movements alternately listless and jumpy; he looked down-at-heel, too, with clothes and hair, which formerly had been happily negligent now unkempt; worst of all there was awariness in his eye which I had surprised there at Easter, and which now seemed habitual to him.