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'If you were not so tough, my noisy old cock' thought I 'next Michaelmas should be your last. So I now resolutely shut my eyes, and tried to sleep perforce, in which usually fruitless attempt, I was actually beginning to succeed, do you know, when a strong odour of palm oil came through the window, and on opening my eyes, I saw by the increasing light a naked negro standing at it, with his head and shoulders in sharp relief against the pale broad disk of the moon, at that moment just peering over the dark summit of the Long mountain.
But as she did so she met the innocent eye of a passer-by, tired of craning his neck to look back at the meeting. With precipitation Mrs. Fox-Moore withdrew into the innermost recesses of the black shell. 'Come, Janet, said Vida, who had meanwhile jumped out and settled the fare. 'Did that man know us? asked the other, lifting up the flap from the back window of the hansom and peering out.
His pipe fell to the floor, and the ashes scattered on the boards and lay glowing there. "Alec!" he cried, peering into my father's face, "Alec! You're not dead." "John," said my father, "can we talk here?" "Good God!" said the gentleman, "you're just the same. To think of it to think of it! Breed, a light in the drawing-room."
One of the most common of these "projects" is as follows: A young woman goes down into the cellar, or into a dark room, with a mirror in her hand, and looking in it, sees the face of her future husband peering at her through the darkness, the mirror being, for the time, as potent as the famous Cambuscan glass of which Chaucer discourses.
She had passed and repassed him twice silently, and at the third turn the big fellow, peering into the twilight ahead somewhat uneasily, obeyed the glitter of her great eyes, and joined her. "You weren't put out, my wench," he asked, "at what I said to you below?" She affected surprise. "What do you mean?" "Why, at my at what I at my rudeness, there! For I was a bit rude, I admit."
William unhitched the horses and climbed into the cramped front seat. When he had settled down, his knees seemed to be peering over the dash-board. "Gid ap!" he cried, and the bays started off slowly across the bridge. The road to the homestead followed down the river for three miles before it took to the hills.
A moment later he was pointing out the couple to his companions, all three peering at them with excited eyes. Brock's face went red under the rude stare; he was on the point of resenting it when the Englishman stepped forward. The American arose at once. "I've been looking for you, Mr. Medcroft if that is your name," said the stranger, halting in front of the table.
See, and he pointed before him in the gloom, 'the hedge stops a bit farther on, and there's a clear piece of grass on to the road. 'Ye-es, said Miss Mouse, peering before her, 'I think I see. 'Anyway you'll see it all right as soon as you come to it, and you go straight till then. 'Yes, yes, said Rosamond, anxious to see him off.
They were keen of vision at long distance and close at hand, and ever were they in motion, swiftly turned sidewise this way and that, peering far ahead or looking backward to note what enemies of the wood might be upon the trail. So, swiftly along the glade and ever alert, went the father and mother of Ab, carrying the strong child with them.
While I lay listening and peering into the darkness of the room in which I slept, I heard a soft splash in the water beneath me, such as a big fish might have made if he had come to the surface, and diving back had struck the water with his tail. It had been high tide soon after midnight, and the water was not more than three or four feet beneath me.
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