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Flaxman looked on helplessly as she sat nervously creasing her napkin; then with a sudden look of relief she said: "Shall I despatch Esmerelda to the Mill Road? They will have little enough time to get all that heap of good things carried away before night." Mr. Winthrop signified his willingness, and as she was leaving the room Mrs. Flaxman, by a look, summoned me to follow her.
As we drew near, Antonio declared that he knew the "gang," which was too wild to approach with the lasso, but he might possibly get one by "creasing." "How do you do that?" inquired Ned. "With my rifle," answered Antonio. "What! shoot one of those horses?" exclaimed Hal. "If you'll wait awhile, youngster, mebbe you'll better understand it," said Antonio.
Until, as the sun had begun to sink towards the marshes on the other side of the river, and to become dissolved into streaks, the man had smiled with increasing rapture, and his face had glowed with creasing eagerness and delight; until finally he had snatched the cap from his head, flung it, with a powerful throw far out into the russet waters, and shouted: "Kama, O my mother, I love you, and never will desert you!"
One or two rooms might be at the front, the rest crooked and cornered backward through in creasing and then decreasing darkness till they reached a light bedroom or kitchen at the rear.
He eyed General Waymouth with much interest and some surprise. He had not been informed of that gentleman's presence in the hotel. The General returned the gaze with serenity, creasing his sheet of manuscript on the table with his thin fingers. "I expected to be called in when you were ready to go over the platform," continued Everett, sourly.
The man he had come after was carefully folding the warrant of arrest along its folded lines as though it were important to preserve the exact creasing of the paper. "Does I keep this hyar thing, Jake," he asked, "or give hit back to ye?" "Keep hit," replied the sheriff, with an equal gravity. "Hit b'longs ter you."
Another followed, and another; the third creasing Hamersley on the breast, and tearing a couple of buttons from his coat. This was shaving close too close to be comfortable. Perhaps the next boulder might rebound from the wall above and strike one or both of them dead.
She stood straightening the sheet which covered Tom's face, creasing its folds between her fingers, and pulling it a little on this side or that. "Mr. Ward," she said, "he was drunk, Tom was." "I know it," he answered gently. "He went out with some money this forenoon," she went on; "he was to buy some things for the young ones. He didn't mean to drink; he didn't mean to go near the saloon.
That might mean that Mike had gone out through the door when the bell sounded, or it might mean that he had been out all the time. It began to look as if the latter solution were the correct one. He staggered back with the basket, painfully conscious the while that it was creasing his waistcoat, and dumped is down on the study floor. Mr. Downing stooped eagerly over it.
He has always walked over my head; partly because he can wear his shirt-front all through business hours without creasing it, which I can't, and partly because he's well more unscrupulous than I am." He paused meditatively, and I too was meditative; for I could not choose but wonder what it was to be more unscrupulous than George Sheldon.
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