He says it with such a pitiable air, and his grimy tears appear so real, and he lies in the corner up against the hoarding so like a growth of fungus or any unwholesome excrescence produced there in neglect and impurity, that Allan Woodcourt is softened towards him. 
He says it with such a pitiable air, and his grimy tears appear so real, and he lies in the corner so like a growth of fungus that Allan Woodcourt is softened towards him. 