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She is absolutely alone even Siegfried, dead, is taken from her, and she instinctively creeps to the only thing that is in any sense hers.
There! he brought the Cobweb through it like an old general of the upper regions." Peggy had to admit that Fanning Harding did seem to be an expert at his work; but she did it regretfully. "He gives me the creeps," she volunteered. "There's nothing creepy about his aeroplane work, though," laughed Roy, "I shouldn't have believed he could have picked up so much in such a short time."
One forgets what is unlike, caring only to dwell upon what is like.... Thinking of her my senses grow dizzy, a sort of madness creeps up behind the eyes.
So he creeps into the house and lies before her bedroom door, and when Mr. Henson comes along the dog takes it in his 'ead as he wants to go in there. And now Rollo's got inside, and nobody except Miss Enid dare go near. I pity that there undertaker when he comes." Walker shuddered slightly. Longdean Grange was a fearful place for the nerves.
We looked all over, but couldn't see him anywhere. That was just how quickly it happened. Then, all of a sudden I could hear a voice, but I couldn't hear it plain, because the wind was blowing the other way and the rain was making such a racket on the porch roof. The voice was all mixed up with the wind and it sounded spooky and gave me the creeps. For a couple of seconds nobody said anything.
The lookers-out, however, could not see much as yet; for the usual surface fog which in these regions generally creeps up in the evening and hangs over the sea till broad daylight had not yet completely cleared away; and so, a curtain of haze shut out the offing from their gaze. Still, as far as the eye could reach, the sea was very rough, with heavy rollers rolling in landward.
"He must have cared," I said warmly. "He couldn't have helped it, Miss Sylvia." Miss Sylvia shook her head with a sad smile. "I cannot be sure. Sometimes I think he did. But then the doubt creeps back again. I would give almost anything to know that he did to know that I have not lavished all the love of my life on a man who did not want it.
The stench of such a paper creeps abroad like the malodor of a cloaca, beslimes the senses like the noxious exhalations of an open sewer. How in God's name men can be found so debased as to work on such a sheet is beyond my comprehension.
Taking advantage of this state of debility, the microbe of unbelief creeps in, eats its way to the soul and finally sucks out the very vitals of faith. Nor is this growth of evil an unconscious one; and there lies the malice and guilt. Ignorant pride, neglect of prayer and religious worship, disorders, etc., these are evils the culprit knows of and wills.
She gazed awhile at the overflowing of the fountain, giving a thought perhaps to the masquerader and his description of himself what time he was alone with her on the portico; presently she resumed: "One word more now, and I dismiss the brass plate.... I cannot blind myself, dear friend, to the condition of my kinsman's empire. It creeps in closer and closer to the walls of Constantinople.
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