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He looked carefully up and down the street, but, seeing nothing of Phil, he concluded he must still be inside. He therefore resumed his watch, but in some perplexity as to where he ought to stand, in order to watch both front and rear. Phil occasionally looked guardedly from the window in the second story, and saw his enemy, but knew that as long as he remained indoors he was safe.
'Finally, pray don't think that I underrate the great advantage of having such persons as St. Mark's produces; but I write guardedly. My kind love to Mrs. Derwent. 'Affectionately yours, 'J. C. PATTESON, Missionary Bishop. On the 29th of December, after two pages of affectionate remarks on various family incidents, the letter proceeds:
The General, who had in fact been observing Miss Floyd and his nephew with some little uneasiness during the preceding half-hour, replied guardedly that Miss Floyd was pretty and picturesque, and apparently a great talker. Was she a native of Washington? "You never heard of Miss Floyd? of Daphne Floyd? No? Ah, well!" and she laughed "I suppose I ought to take it as a compliment, of a kind.
While all this was going on Trirodov was reading in the dining-room his own verses and some which were not his. The constables listened in a dull way. They did not understand anything, but waited patiently to see if any rebellious words were mentioned, but their waiting remained unrewarded. The Inspector of the police then entered the dining-room. Every one looked guardedly at him.
She laughed guardedly, but there was no great spirit of fun in either of us, and again we turned back to our contemplation of the water, for a long time looking down at it in moody silence. I instinctively felt that she had not altered her decision. In the distance off our starboard bow a hairlike line of slowly brightening silver, forerunner of the climbing moon, touched the far horizon.
It was as if, with her effective little entresol and and her wide acquaintance, her activities, varieties, promiscuities, the duties and devotions that took up nine tenths of her time and of which he got, guardedly, but the side-wind it was as if she had shrunk to a secondary element and had consented to the shrinkage with the perfection of tact.
"I had a letter from Ralph;" guardedly. "Did you?" "Yes; I expect he'll come before long." "I'd like to see him;" with more interest. "Wouldn't you?" "Yes rather," answered Kat, with a smile at herself in the glass, where she was comparing the effect of pink, or blue bow in her hair. "I'm going down now; what shall I say for you?"
As Clubbe understood this, and nodded in acquiescence, there only remained to them to draw the cork and light their cigars. "Not much to tell," said Clubbe, guardedly. "But what there is, is no secret, so far as I know. It has not been told because it was known long ago, and has been forgotten since. The man's dead and buried, and there's an end of him."
She chose her lovers guardedly and with subtle taste, beginning after mature deliberation with one who pleased her greatly. She was seeking refinement, emotion, understanding coupled with some ability and they were not so easy to find. The long record of her liaisons is not for this story, but their impress on her character was important.
Dixon was standing at the kitchen table with a pastry-board before her, making a meat pie. She greeted her new mistress civilly, though guardedly, and went on with what she was doing. "Are you going to cook for us?" asked Mrs. Melrose, helplessly. "That's what I unnerstood fro' Muster Tyson, ma'am." "Then I came to speak to you about dinner."
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