Sir, said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My master--here he looked round him and began to whisper--is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf..
unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)
If you refer to the pallor of someone's face or skin, you mean that it is pale and unhealthy. The deathly pallor of her skin had been replaced by the faintest flush of color. when someone's skin is very pale in a way that makes them look weak or unhealthy (pallere )