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The day of my furtive visit was sober and already waning, with a breeze in which the fountains streamed flaglike, and with a gentle sky on which the population of statues above the colonnades defined themselves in leisure attitudes, so recognizable all that I am sure if they had come down and taken me by the hand we could have called one another by name without a moment's hesitation.
Strange sounds came to them from out the dense network of trees the screeching of night-birds, the weird call of the owls, the swift and furtive tread of wild beasts on the prowl.
My own furtive glances were enough to excite suspicion. My more frequent purchases were enough to confirm them. At last one day I read in the eyes of the clerk who waited on me the question which must have been in his mind. I seized my package and rushed out onto the street, knowing that I would never dare return. I went then from one place to another in shrinking fear of detection.
They would follow the convoy all day long, with the furtive air characteristic of those to whom life means nothing but a constant dodging of half-bricks violently hurled; and at night they would sit around in a circle and perform the mournful operation known as baying the moon, which they did with prodigious enthusiasm and complete indifference as to whether there was a moon or not.
"Well, my dear?" he inquired, with a furtive and anxious glance at his wife. "I suppose er it er it was to be expected?" "No, it was not to be expected," said Mrs. Rush-Marvelle, rearing her head, and heaving her ample bosom to and fro in rather a tumultuous manner. "Of course it was to be expected that Bruce-Errington would behave like a fool his father was a fool before him.
The other one looked less trustworthy, or at least less inclined to pity. Under these circumstances, therefore, and with this design, the good man began his advances, moving in a hesitating way toward them, with furtive glances, and with such very extraordinary gestures that Brooke and Talbot regarded him in great surprise. "The Hungarian countess," said Talbot, "seems more eccentric than ever."
In what a whirl of smoke and firelight and wild, fantastic, hurtling shadows we were! When we grew tired of our sport we went to the windward side of the field and perched ourselves on the high pole fence that skirted a dark spruce wood, full of strange, furtive sounds.
The face Norah turned on him had that look which is in the face of an animal, when its young is being forced from it fierce, hungering, furtive, vicious. "The child is mine," she exclaimed "mine and no other's. The prairie gave it to me. It came to me out of the storm. 'Tis mine-mine only. I was barren and wantin', and my man was slippin' from me, because there was only two of us in our home.
"He looks a bad 'un," the detective muttered, as he walked away; "Sawney was right enough there." He went into the town, and walked about, looking at the jewellers' shops with his accustomed rapid glance a glance so furtive that it escaped observation so full of sharp scrutiny that it took in every detail of the object looked at. Mr.
If she had looked back she would have seen the stealthy opening of doors, the craning of a furtive head as quickly withdrawn. She paid no heed. She was so near, so very near the place in the wall hidden in the shadow of the talik palms and in which was the secret door which opened on the pressing of a certain brick in the third row from the top.
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