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As for the life-sized models realistic enough by daylight their aspect was positively alarming; for the moving light and shadow endowed them with life and movement, so that they seemed to watch us furtively, to lie in wait and to hold themselves in readiness to steal out and follow us.
Three or four times he kissed her cheek furtively and once her mouth. In a dark place he pulled her vigorously to him, putting a long, sensuous kiss on her lips that frightened her. "No," she protested, nervously. "You mustn't." He ceased for a time, feeling that he had pressed his advantage too closely. But the night in all its beauty, and she in hers made a lasting impression.
Apart from him, they were all good-looking, despite the family defect; and they were all very reticent this morning. I seemed indeed to trace the father's wariness as well as the cast in each pair of eyes that furtively studied me.
Saunderson seated themselves in the honeysuckle arbour: the girls and the advocate of progress stood without among the garden flowers. It was a still and lovely night, the moon at her full. The farmer, seated facing his hayfields, smoked on placidly. Kenelm, at the third whiff, laid aside his pipe, and glanced furtively at the three Graces.
If she had not insisted upon his going out for a taxicab, the man who was loitering about would probably have never got hold of him." The detective glanced up furtively at the speaker. He seemed to reflect for a moment. "I gathered," he said, "in conversation with the commissionaire, that Miss Hyslop was a little impatient that night.
Then she read to her mother until it was time to go to the study. Often she left her mother asleep in the big easy chair. Oh, for some one to listen and to respond! But the practice was good for her if no one listened. Zay kept glancing furtively down at the table of the younger class. Yes, there was Miss Boyd. She went toward a pupil, as a small hand was held up.
Then as Dom Manuel turned from the window of Ageus, it seemed that young Horvendile had opened the door yonder, and after an instant's pensive staring at Dom Manuel, had gone away. This happened, if it happened at all, so furtively and quickly that Count Manuel could not be sure of it: but he could entertain no doubt as to the other person who was confronting him.
There were goods of various kinds scattered about, and he could just see a recumbent figure on a bed near the counter. "That's the boy," he said to himself. "I wonder if he is asleep." There did not seem to be any doubt on this point. But for the indistinct light, Tom Burns might have thought the outstretched figure rather large for a boy. But he only glanced at it furtively.
He sat looking furtively at the other now and then, and thinking what terrible reproaches those firm lips might utter; how differently the sad, kind eyes might regard him before long, and once more he longed for a railroad crash which would set him free from his tangled life. The journey ended at last, and they drove to South Audley Street.
"Jewels furtively changed since Plaintiff had them of me!" answers Hirsch; and the steady Judges keep their sieves going. The only Documents produced by Voltaire are Two; of 19th DECEMBER and of 24th DECEMBER; which the reader has not yet seen, but ought now to gain some notion of, if possible.
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