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"Humph! he'll walk back," snorted Gus. "I tried thet pack animal. He's hell fer breakfast." "Gus, if I was goin' to walk I'd leave my saddle heah in camp," drawled Blinky. "Blink, I'll let you ride in behind me," added Pan. As a matter of fact, Pan was not having much luck propitiating the horse he had selected.
Almost at the same moment of time, and perhaps half a mile away towards Gillane Ness, the figure of a man appeared for a blink upon a sandhill, waving with his arms; and though he was gone again in the same flash, the gulls in that part continued a little longer to fly wild. Alan had not seen this, looking straight to seaward at the ship and skiff.
Grant on the Highland Superstitions, vol. ii. p. 260, for this fine translation from the Gaelic. "They're a' out," she said, as they entered; "but an ye will sit a blink, somebody will be in. If ye hae business wi' my gude-daughter, or my son, they'll be in belyve, I never speak on business mysell.
The city tumbles by. The city is interested in something vastly complicated. Staring into the little mirror, Fanny sighs and powders her nose. An auctioneer must have a compelling manner. He must be gabby and stentorian, witheringly sarcastic and plaintively cajoling. He must be able to detect the faintest symptoms of avarice and desire in the blink of an eyelid, in the tilt of a head.
The team consisted of six splendid mules, of which, to my astonishment, only the two on the shaft had bridles and reins, the remaining four went freely, guided only by the voices of the coachman and his "Zagal" who, agile as a squirrel, sometimes went for more than a league on foot, running beside his mules, which were at full trot, then, in a blink of an eye he would climb up on to the seat beside his master, only to get down and then up again; which he did twenty times a day; going round the coach and the harness to make sure that nothing was out of order, and while doing all this, singing to encourage his mules, each one of which he called by name.
For hours and hours Diana's mind was like a stormy sea, where the thunder and the lightning were not wanting any more than the wind. Once in a while, like the faint blink of a sun-ray through the clouds, came an echo of the words Basil had quoted "In the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge" but they hurt her so that she fled from them.
The girl, after the first surprise, had demeaned herself admirably, and now stood in the attitude proper to a confidential servant; solicitous, respectful, prepared to blink the peccadillo, even to sympathise discreetly at a hint given. "I'm sorry, Miss, that I opened it; I ought to have told you, but you took me by surprise.
Robin Oig had just given the preliminary "Hoo-hoo!" to urge forward the loiterers of the drove, when there was a cry behind him. "Stay, Robin bide a blink. Here is Janet of Tomahourich auld Janet, your father's sister." "Plague on her, for an auld Highland witch and spaewife," said a farmer from the Carse of Stirling; "she'll cast some of her cantrips on the cattle."
"Wal, Pan, I was shore in on thet," said Blink, gripping Pan's arm. "Say, you called 'em flat. Made 'em swaller a hell of a lot," added Gus, with a hard note in his voice. "When it come down to hard pan they wasn't there." "Pan, you remember me tellin' you aboot Purcell, who jumped my claim with young Hardman?" queried Blinky.
He stopped, panting, and, in spite of his news, paused to blink at the flash of jewels. "It's comin'," said Jeff. "Boys, get your guns and scatter out of the cabin. Duck that light! Hal Dozier is comin' up the valley."
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