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And every hair on the otter's skin had been covered with a gem or a piece of gold. And still old Hreidmar on his hands and knees was peering over the skin, searching, searching for a hair that was not covered. At last he lifted himself up on his knees. His mouth was open, but he was speechless.
"O dear me!" exclaimed Polly; "now we shall wake him up," as they tiptoed around, peering in every cosey corner and behind all the tables for a glimpse of Phronsie's little brown gown. "No danger," said Jasper, with a glance over at the old gentleman; "he's just as fast asleep as can be. Here, Polly, I think she's probably tucked up in here."
Suddenly came a call of his name in his ear, and he threw up one arm in self-defence. "Uncle Anthony, don't you know me?" "Eh? I do; to be sure I do," he answered, peering dimly upon Rhoda: "I'm always meeting one of you." "I've been down in the City, trying to find you all day, uncle. I meet you I might have missed! It is direction from heaven, for I prayed."
A load of building stone stalls, and people gather on the sidewalk to tell the teamster quietly and unostentatiously that he ought to have had more sense than to pile it on like that with the roads the way they are. Every time the cruel whip comes down and the horses dance under it, the women peering out of the front windows wince, and cluck "Tchk! Ain't it terrible? He ought to be arrested."
Dusk was falling, in the swift Californian fashion. Already the outlines of the wharf houses were growing indistinct, and the lights of the city were beginning to twinkle. Captain Selover came to my side and leaned over the rail, peering critically at the black water against the piles. "She's at the flood," he squeaked. "And here comes the Lucy Belle."
"A steamer," muttered Steve, peering uselessly into the grey void. "She's a good ways off, though. Give her another pull, Joe." Again the Adventurer proclaimed her position but there was no answer from the steamer. "She doesn't seem very talkative," said Phil. "How fast are we going, Steve?" "Six." "And how far is Edgartown?" "About twelve, but we're not going there.
Then she dressed herself and stepping about on tiptoe prepared breakfast, peering in now and then at her sleeping son. It was with a face calm and strong, and even bright, that she went in at last to waken him. "Now, mother," exclaimed Shock, springing off the bed, "this is really too bad, and I meant to give you your breakfast in bed to-day."
Her dress she knew to be perfect, and when she perceived the craning pale face of the inevitable lady-journalist, peering between the balusters of a gallery, she thoughtfully took up a prominent position immediately beneath that gallery, and slowly turned round like a beautifully garnished joint before the fire of cheap publicity. To Paul this ball was much like others.
They, too, had lain down; but upon seeing the pair of large, bright, peering eyes, they arose, stretched themselves, whisked their tails, and began again feasting on the crisp, luscious grass.
Wilson had been examining the revolver and belt they had taken from the prisoner, and which he had brought with him. "Fourteen in the two pistols and nearly sixty in the two belts," he said. "We ought to be able to put up all kinds of a fight," Alex declared confidently. "That is, unless they " He broke off, and all leaned forward, peering down into the gloom, and listening.
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