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He spared me the remark, but not the sly leer that had been made to accompany it. He clapped his heels to his horse's side and trotted off in the direction from which he had come. So that he could swear he had been to Avranches, he was satisfied! Marie Delhasse turned to me, asking haughtily: "What is the meaning of this? What do you know of the Duke or Duchess of Saint-Maclou?"
This gentleman has laid his hand on my collar." With a sly look he indicated the Commissioner of Police, who did not budge. "What! my dear fellow?" "They have arrested me, that is all," said Lissac. "Monsieur," the Commissioner quickly interrupted in a low voice, "no commotion, please. For my sake and for yours."
"We must get a grip of him somehow," returned the officer, "for it is said that he is a sly helper of the rebels though it is as difficult to convict as to catch him; and as this gathering, of which our spies have brought information, is to be in the neighbourhood of his house, he is sure to be mixed up with it." "Nae doot o' that, sir, an' so we may manage to kill twa birds wi' ae stane.
To the amazement of the lady, he proposed the following riddle: ‘’One can enter from in front, or from behind, only one has to stand up.’ Observing the despair of the lady, he, with a sly, innocent look, said, ‘But well then, what is it? T. had been with few Hungarians, but with these few, homosexuality had been, as it happened, a favorite subject of conversation.
That's the only thing. Always try and be manly, and quiet in yourself. Remember I know what it is. I've been the same, in the same state that you are in. And probably I've behaved more foolishly and perniciously than ever you will. So come to me if anything really bothers you. And don't feel sly and secret. I do know just what you've got and what you haven't.
She felt that she must confide in someone, so she wrote a full account of events at Symon's Yat to her son. It was the worst possible thing she could have done. Unconsciously for she was now anxious to help instead of hindering Medenham's wooing some of the gall in her nature distilled itself into words. She dwelt on the river episode with all the sly rancor of the inveterate scandalmonger.
"Business," presently said Langford with a quiet significance which was not lost on Duncan, "good business, demands the application of certain methods which are not always agreeable to the opposition." He took another sly glance at Duncan. "There ought to be a good many ways of making it plain to Doubler that he isn't wanted in this section of the country," he insinuated.
"Viola! dat vay!" The woman deliberately pointed to the cow-boy camp; then vanished in the darkness. "Mighty quick wench! A have seen you before, my sly minx, and A'll see you some more," he said staring after the fading form. Then he headed his mare for the cow-boy camp below the cliff. Half a dozen men lounged round a smudge fire.
It is a cheese-making countryside about Barbie, and the less butter produced at a cheese-making place, the better for the cheese. Still, a good many pounds are often churned on the sly.
Twice only had the drum been beaten, and assistance came, first in the persons of the great Admiral Blake and then Admiral Nelson. Some one must have given it a sly tap to bring the Canadian contingent. Gradually we drew into the inner harbour. The white streaks on the shore and on the warships in the harbour resolved themselves into naval cadets and "tars" "dressing" ship.
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