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If he falls, why, I shall not run away, and the Due Return sails to-morrow." He eyed me closely from under frowning brows. "And when your wife's a widow, what then?" he asked abruptly. I have not known many better men than this simple, straightforward, soldierly Governor. The manliness of his character begot trust, invited confidence.
Jim Airth, a connoisseur in horse-flesh, eyed them with approval. They flew along the narrow Surrey lanes, between masses of wild roses and clematis. The villagers were working in the hayfields, shouting gaily to one another as they tossed the hay. It was a matchless June day, in a perfect English summer.
Again they laboured up the steep slope, wallowing in the sliding snow, straining silently at the load; again they threw themselves, exhausted, upon it. Now, as he eyed the panorama below, it seemed to have suffered a subtle change, indefinable and odd.
The young gentleman eyed Marmaduke with a supercilious glance. "Marry!" said he, pertly, "if a man born in the North were to feed all his cousins, he would soon have a tail as long as my uncle, the stout earl's. Come, sir cousin, this way."
The scientist eyed him deliberately. "Pardon me," he said. "You have not thought of your appearance. You have traveled for three or four days, and look rather disheveled." Paul understood. The professor did not want him to be seen as he was. He was wild and excited, and his clothes were in disorder. Silently he unlocked his dressing-case and bag, and proceeded to dress himself.
Nina eyed him suspiciously; at last she was satisfied that he spoke the truth, but there was still that cold, abstracted manner of his to be explained. However, cleverly taking her cue from him she inquired in business-like tones: "And how about The Polka Saloon the raid on Cloudy Mountain Camp?" A shade of annoyance crossed Ramerrez' face. "I have decided to give that up at least for a time."
That's where 'tis. But I an't a blackguard. Tell him that, sir!" This was how it came that Austin eyed young Richard seriously while he told the news at Raynham. The boy was shy of Austin more than of Adrian. Why, he did not know; but he made it a hard task for Austin to catch him alone, and turned sulky that instant.
The girl turned at that moment and, encountering the forehead and eyes, gazed at them until they sank slowly behind the protection of the blind. "She's coming here," said Mr. Tredgold, watching through the wire. "Wants to see our time-table, I expect." He sat down at the table again, and taking up his pen took some papers from a pigeon-hole and eyed them with severe thoughtfulness.
You often said you'd like to do something for me, Mattie; suppose you take the job?" How much of glancing at a thing in one's mind as a beautiful improbability will ever make such a cold fact less astonishing? Miss Mattie eyed him with eyes that saw not; speech was stricken from her. Red caught fright. He sprang forward and took her hand. "Couldn't you do it, Mattie?" said he.
And I shouldn't wonder if your perturbed spirit walks the captain's bedroom afterwards." Miss Drewitt looked up and eyed the speaker with scornful comprehension. "Take the bet, Mr. Chalk," she said, slowly. Mr. Chalk turned in hopeful amaze; then he leaned over and shook hands solemnly with Mr. Tredgold. "I'll take the bet," he said.
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