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She could do nothing, she cried to me through the door, being alone and lame; but if I would apply at the next house there was a man who could help me if he had a mind. They came to the next door in force, a man, two women, and a girl, and brought a pair of lanterns to examine the wayfarer. The man was not ill-looking, but had a shifty smile.
The shifty royal glance swept over them from under lowering brows; then it rested almost in challenge upon his mother. "Tell them," he bade her curtly. She told them what already she had told her son, relating all now with greater detail and circumstance. For some moments nothing was heard in that room but the steady drone of her unemotional voice.
As the menacing figures stood in the glare of the fire gazing at the party with shifty eyes, they presented a frightful appearance.
Lady Ingleby folded both papers and laid them on the table beside her. The calm impassivity of the white face had undergone no change. "It must have been Walker," she said. "Michael always considered him a scamp and shifty; but I delighted in him, because he played the banjo quite excellently, and was so useful at parish entertainments. Michael took him abroad; but had to dismiss him on landing.
It is the practically universal opinion, not only in America, but in other neutral countries as well, that the repeated excuses and shifty evasions by which Berlin rejected every plan for mediation, arbitration, or any other programme which would tend toward a peaceful solution of the crisis, combined with Berlin's acknowledgment that "a free hand was assured" to Austria, and the further fact that all correspondence between Berlin and Vienna is carefully suppressed, are amply sufficient to convince any fair-minded, unprejudiced man that the Berlin Government is primarily responsible for the war.
He had sech shifty eyes I couldn't help but think that maybe he had stolen them things jest to raise some spending money." "Did he give his name?" "He said Jack Smith, but I don't think thet vas correct, for he hesitated afore he gave it." "A tall, slim fellow, with reddish hair and shifty eyes," mused Tom. "Do you remember how he was dressed?"
Was it likely that I, who am by temperament and habit accustomed to read human visages like a book, was it likely, I say, that I would fail to see craftiness in those pale, shifty eyes, deceit in the weak, slobbering mouth, intemperance in the whole aspect of the shrunken, slouchy figure which I had, for my subsequent sorrow, so generously rescued from starvation? Generous?
Billings' shifty eyes and mouth, which its muscles could not quite keep in place. Mr. Billings also had nicked teeth. But he did his best to hide these obvious disadvantages by a Falstaffian bonhomie, for Mr. Billings was growing stout. "I tried it once or twice, my friend, when I was younger. It's noble, but it don't pay," said Mr. Billings, still confidential. "Brush is sour look at him.
You will take oath to that?" "Of course I will." Horatio Fielding's shifty brown eyes looked for a moment into John Maxwell's relentless gray ones, then dropped uneasily. "What in the devil is all this about, anyhow? You come in on a fellow with some damned gossip a lot of old cats have been telling in their sewing society and accuse him of it before he knows what you're talking about.
This time the strident roar of savage exultation was loud and deep enough to shake the flickering lamp upon its chain. A brief discussion of plans followed, and Roger he with the broad, hairy chest and that gleam of hatred for ever lurking in his deep-set, shifty eyes was chosen the leader of the party.
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