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Surely there was never a loneliness like this loneliness. "I will go, if I may," said Cally. Chas was eyeing her, unbelievably grave, turning his hat between his hands. And then she remembered Hen, left alone, who would not be comforted. She whispered: "Don't wait for me.... I'll come in a minute." The young man hesitated; they spoke a moment; it was so arranged.
It was a happy thought, sir, and it took root. 'It would seem, Mr Venus, observed Wegg, with a touch of distrust, 'that you are flush of friends? 'Pretty well, sir, that gentleman answered, in a tone of placid mystery. 'So-so, sir. Pretty well. 'However, said Wegg, after eyeing him with another touch of distrust, 'I wish you joy. One man spends his fortune in one way, and another in another.
Didn't feel it, did you, George?" "Not so's I kin notice, suh. An' will dat show me an' de leetle shack w'en it's done fixed?" asked the fugitive wonderingly, eyeing the camera with respect. "Fine. And if you leave me your address, or that of your married daughter up in Chattanooga, I promise to send you a copy later on, George." "Oh! I'll do dat, marse, 'deed I will!
I felt the reproach, which made it the more difficult for me to state my errand. "I knew you sometimes took pupils in the evening, Mr. Wood." "Pupils, yes," he replied, still eyeing me. Suddenly his eyes twinkled. He had indeed no reason to suspect me of thirsting for learning. "But I was under the impression that you had gone into business, Hugh."
The inspector drew Ayscough aside and they talked in whispers for a few minutes, eyeing Lauriston now and then; eventually they approached him. "I understand you're known here, and that you live in the neighbourhood," said the inspector. "You'll not object if the sergeant goes round with you to your lodgings you'll no doubt be able to satisfy him about your respectability, and so on.
Or canst thou tell where some other thing besides me is this moment living? Where is Moby Dick? This instant thou must be eyeing him. These eyes of mine look into the very eye that is even now beholding him; aye, and into the eye that is even now equally beholding the objects on the unknown, thither side of thee, thou sun!"
She's always good to beggars." "No beggar," remonstrated the little foreigner. "Earn money. Some days much. Little this day. It so col'." "Is that all the coat you have?" Peace demanded, eyeing the scant attire with horrified eyes. "All," answered the child simply, and she sighed heavily. "I've got two.
Edgar the Dreamer was himself an invisible person, for the only outward difference between him and his twin brother, Edgar Goodfellow, lay in a certain quiet, listless air and the solemn look in his big, dark grey eyes which his playmates bored and intolerant took as indications that "Edgar was in one of his moods," and his foster-father eyeing him keenly and with marked displeasure as an equally unmistakable indication that he was "hatching mischief."
It was hers; and he improvised a paean in its praise. Every morning he perched on the edge of the nest and gazed in songless wonder at each beautiful new egg; and whenever she came to brood she sat as if entranced, eyeing her treasures in an ecstasy of proud possession. Then she nestled them against her warm breast, and turned adoring eyes toward the Cardinal.
The woman turned coolly round and looked through the paling, as if she supposed he had seen something behind her. 'Was't a haër? she asked, eyeing him with interest; 'ye ain't feared o' the like o' that? 'No, it was not a hare; I did not see a hare. 'What was't ye seed then? she asked, looking at him with bold determination. 'What did I see? he repeated vaguely, 'I saw nothing.
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