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"That I can," said Luke, "Why, her babe is a-dying, And she was so wrapped up in it!" Catherine started up: "What is his trouble?" "Nay, I know not. But it has been peaking and pining worse and worse this while." A furtive glance of satisfaction passed between Cornelis and Sybrandt. Luckily for them Catherine did not see it. Her face was turned towards her husband.
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.
That's the editor himself that's my literary papa. I know him as well as though I had seen him at it. Katie and Mrs. Woodward exchanged furtive glances, but neither of them moved a muscle of her face. 'But the gentleman who has the honour of being her intended sposo, continued Mrs. Woodward.
He hardly knew what he had expected, but in all the sunny days of walking, in all the furtive days in Paris, he had thought of nothing else. He would see Genevieve and tell her all about himself; he would unroll his life like a scroll before her eyes. Together they would piece together the future. A sudden terror took possession of him. She had failed him.
"Well, of course, that is the true theory; but I I find it necessary to have them whipped, Mr. Holmes." Holmes stooped suddenly to pat Tiger, hiding a furtive smile. The old man went on, anxiously, "Old Mr. Howth says that is the end of all self-governments: from anarchy to despotism, he says. Old people are apt to be set in their ways, you know.
A man half-asleep leaned back in a chair by the stove with his chin on his breast. Two rough-looking men at a table who were talking in low tones pretended not to notice my entrance, but their furtive glances gave more eloquent evidence of their interest than the closest stare. The barkeeper eyed me with apparent openness.
He was never off his guard for one instant. Polite, smiling, furtive, never looking Brandon fairly in the face, he usually spoke with a profusion of bows, gestures, and commonplaces, adopting, in fact, that part which is always at once both the easiest and the safest to play the non-committal, pure and perfect.
The carpenter and Pete were in high glee at the news that they were to accompany us, and in the intervals of packing up, their delight was expressed by furtive punches and slaps delivered when one or the other was not looking. "I am glad, Mr Nat," Bill Cross said to me when we were alone for a few minutes overnight.
It was interesting to watch the face of Toole, suffused with good-humour and yet preserving its elastic dignity, in contrast with that of the farmer, which was almost white with terror as they interchanged furtive glances for the next half-hour. However, it all ended happily, for the man never laughed again.
All my personal effects to be left in charge of the nearest American Consulate. Ruth lost the point entirely. The doctor expected her to seize upon the subtle inference that there was something furtive, even criminal, in the manner the patient set this obligation upon humanity at large, to look after him in the event of his death. The idea of anything criminal never entered her thoughts.
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