The Artful, meantime, who was of a rather saturnine disposition, and seldom gave way to merriment when it interfered with business, rifled Oliver's pockets with steady assiduity.
With Mr Heathcliff, grim and saturnine, on the one hand, and Hareton, absolutely dumb, on the other, I made a somewhat cheerless meal, and bid adieu early.
The finger of Saturn is the name given to the middle finger, which reveals the presence of saturnine qualities, as the name would suggest, brooding, melancholy, that type of thing.