![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She wears a black wig and a white hat, and, because her legs are swollen, is largely inactive. Winnie's mother is a "stout, wheezy woman with a large brown face" (5). She has tidy hair and is steady-eyed like her husband. She is described as a "young woman with a full bust, in a tight bodice, and with broad hips" (4). He has worked for the Embassy for eleven years. Verloc also reveals that he joined the artillery due to an infatuation with a French girl, who took his money and then told the police about him. ![]() He spent five years in the French artillery and was imprisoned for much of that time for attempting to steal French gun designs. In Chapter II, we are told that Verloc is a natural-born English citizen but had a French father. He was born to industrious parents and, as a result, was devoted to a life of indolence (10). He is "thoroughly domesticated" and content to stay close to home, near his wife and his mother-in-law (4-5). He resembles a well-to-do tradesman, but he gives off an air of living off the vices and follies of mankind (found, for instance, in casino-owners or private detectives) (10). Verloc is described as a man with heavy eyes and with the appearance of "having wallowed, fully dressed, all day on an unmade bed" (4). ![]()
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