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Larcom had been making his observations and conjectures thereupon. The captain took it with a little nod, and a peevish side-glance. It said 'MY DEAR CAPTAIN BRANDON LAKE, Imperative business calls me to London by the early train to-morrow. Will you therefore favour me, if convenient, by the bearer, with the small note of consent, which must accompany the articles agreeing to sell.
Coventry stepped smartly forward, and offered her his arm with courteous deference; she took it, and went down with him, but shot over his shoulder a side-glance of reproach at Little, for not being so prompt as his rival. "What spirits!" said a young lady. "Yes," said another; "but she was as dull as the grave last time I met her." So ended that evening, with its little ups and downs.
"He didn't come, and you don't know anything about him. But, of course, if you want me to say nothing " She paused. I clutched her arm. "Miss Moyat," I said, "I have strong reasons for not wishing to be brought into this." "All right," she said, dropping her voice. "I will do as you ask." There was an absurd meaning in her little side-glance, which at another time would have put me on my guard.
Her beautiful face was impassive, secreting behind a screen all that Marise was sure she must have been feeling. 'Gene, catching sight of her now, in a side-glance, stopped abruptly in the middle of a swing, and shouted to her to "get off that brush-pile. That's jus' where I'm lottin' on layin' the tree."
As his straining eyes sought relief in something visible, their side-glance caught once more that same impression of movement in the darkness. And presently it came again and stronger a strange greenish fluttering up in the roof very faint, as though the roof were smoke on which a soft green light played for a moment and vanished.
He could get on well enough without sympathy and comprehension, but his momentary indulgence in them made the ordinary taste of life a little flat. "There must be more to see?" she continued, as they turned back toward the village; and he answered absently: "Oh, yes if you like." He heard the change in his own voice, and knew by her quick side-glance that she had heard it too.
I had had a notion that a married woman, no matter how young, must have a married face, something quite distinct from the countenance of a maiden, while this married woman did not begin to look married. Matilda got up, cast a frowning side-glance at her mother, and walked over to one of the four immense windows illuminating the room.
I say, Milly lass, will ye see if Governor be done wi' the Curate? Do. I'm a losing the whole day along o' him. Milly jumped up, accustomed to obey her brother, and as she passed me, whispered, with a wink 'Money. And away she went. Dudley whistled a tune, and swung his foot like a pendulum, as he followed her with his side-glance.
The purchaser, after finishing and furnishing to his fancy, puts his name on the door, and on the fence a large white placard inscribed "For sale". Then his household arrangements are complete, and he can sit down to enjoy himself. By a side-glance from our window, one may look down an ancient street, which in some early epoch of the world's freshness received the name of Spring Street.
She was evidently coming to their house; another moment, and she tapped at the door. John Barton gave an anxious, uneasy side-glance.
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