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What has the old beggar done with it? "'I think I know. Stop; let me peep out. All right! Come along. "With a lamp in his hand, he led the way to the cellars, and after searching about a little they discovered it. "'It looks horrid enough, said Heinrich, 'but think a drop or two of wine would brighten it up a little.
It looked out upon the German Ocean which at that time of the year was always in a rage, or in the sulks and it was called "Peep o' Day," because it received the very first rays of the sun as he rose upon the British Isles.
Her sympathy was all with the other fellow, at that moment unknown, but a sly peep past the edge of the scarcely opened door told her that the unnamed party in the quarrel was the awkward young man who had found her book.
I should like to get a peep at her; is she really so very ugly?" she continued, addressing a young man at her side. "Miss Wyllys, you mean; a perfect fright ugly as sin," replied the gentleman. Elinor, at the very moment, was standing immediately behind the speakers, and Mr. Ellsworth, who was talking to her, was much afraid she had heard the remark.
Naturally I thought that some one had lamped us on the outside, and that I was likely to be in a devil of a mess if I wasn't careful. The last place for me to go was back into her room. They would cut me off from the outside. So I beat it up the stairway into the attic. Nothing happened, so I sneaked down to have a peep around. The door to Ugo's room was open, but there was no light on the inside.
And the roses! fields, hedges, groves of roses. They climb up the walls, blossom on the roofs, hang from the trees, peep out from among the bushes; they are white, red, yellow, large and small, single, with a simple self-colored dress, or full and heavy in brilliant toilettes.
A single glazed bookcase held the family library, which was hidden from vulgar eyes by green silk curtains behind the glass. It would have been instructive to get a look at it, as it always is to peep into one's neighbor's bookshelves. From other sources and opportunities a partial idea of it has been obtained.
I mustn't peep; I must walk boldly out, and take my chance. Not a sound. Alfred walked into the wide passage. He avoided the boarded places, selected the rugs and carpets to walk on, and so made his way into the drawing-room, and hence on to the lawn. Then he slipped down a secluded path, and returned to the tennis players from a different side. 'Where have you been?
But just take a peep at that bow of hers! Sharp enough to cut paper with! Black along the scuppers, but with a shine like the patent leather shoe of a Grandee of Spain; and the body of her, white, but smooth as an eel, and just as fast, by God, in the water!" The rigging, the fishing gear and other trappings, were not yet aboard.
Farnsworth's mind rarely took time to peep over the fence that divided the universe into two parts the Bank of Manhadoes and its interests lying on the one side, and all the rest of creation on the other. Not that he ignored society; he gave dinner parties in his elegant housekeeping apartment in the Sebastopol Flats.
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