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But it embarrassed him a little, and he said, with a shy glance aside, "I don't know what you mean." "I reckon," Dryfoos answered, quietly, "you got your notion, though. I set that woman on to speak to you the way she done.
She habitually wore white middies with blue collar and tie, which went well with her clear, pink skin and her hair that just escaped being red. She knew how to tilt her "beach" hat at the most provocative angle, and she knew just when to let Bud catch a slow, sidelong glance of the kind that is supposed to set a man's heart to syncopatic behavior. She did not do it too often.
One look at the fixed expression of contempt on her face would have enlightened him, but George was lighting his cigar now, and did not glance at her. "I'll tell you another thing, Mary," said George, after a match-scratching-and-puffing interlude, "I'll tell you another thing, my dear.
Of their safety they have full and instant assurance, by the behaviour of Eleparu, who has taken in the situation at a glance. Apparently head of the community, with a shout and authoritative wave of the hand he sends off those who so lately had threatened to attack them. But all seem friendly enough, now that they see him so, having, indeed, no reason to be otherwise.
But a glance and a reassuring smile from Rodney were enough to show him that he had nothing to fear on that score. The guards stood at the windows watching the party inside, the horses had been brought into the yard in readiness for the squad to mount, and Rodney and the captain were sitting on the front steps.
Henrietta looked at him so fixedly, that he could not bear the glance; and then she said in a deep voice, "Unless I die! did you not mean that? Be it so." Coldly M. de Brevan bowed, as if he intended to say, "Yes, unless you should be dead: that was what I meant." Then, opening the door, he added, "Let me hope, madam, that this is not your last word.
Insensible to any feeling of self-respect, I bore even the contempt of my sister Rosalie; both she and my mother hardly ever deigning to cast a glance at the young libertine whom they only saw at rare intervals, looking deadly pale and worn out: my ever-growing despair made me at last resort to foolhardiness as the only means of forcing hostile fate to my side.
If we glance at Sorolla's young girls and young boys racing along the hot beach, or his bathers exulting in their "water joy," we recall at the same moment the "Primavera" with its swift-stepping nymphs, the wind gods in the "Birth of Venus," or the "Judith" with her maid moving rapidly along a flower-strewn path.
We were in the launch, passing one of the viaducts of the new railroad, and Aunt Varina exclaimed, 'What a wonderful piece of work! 'Yes, put in my husband, 'but don't let Sylvia hear you say it. 'Why not? she asked; and he replied, 'She'll tell you how many hours a day the poor Dagoes have to work. That was all; but I saw Aunt Varina give a quick glance at me, and I saw that she was not fooled by my efforts to make conversation.
He cast upon Wilfred one glance of intense hatred, and then, looking down respectfully, awaited the words of the Conqueror. "Etienne de Malville, dost thou appear as the accuser of this prisoner?" "I do." "Take thine oath, then, upon the Holy Gospels, only to speak the truth; my Lord Archbishop will administer it."
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