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Gideon Holt alone was outside of all these activities and watched them with suspicion. He was an old-timer, sly but fearless, who hated Colby Macdonald with a bitter jealousy that could not be placated and he took no pains to hide the fact. He had happened to be in the vicinity prospecting when Macdonald had rushed his entries.
"Is there not something about the shape of this paper, Madame, that is familiar? Does it not recall to your mind something of vital importance?" Madame placed her hand upon the back of the chair and the ends of her fingers grew white from the pressure. "The great Beaufort has scrawled negligently across this paper; the sly, astute Gaston. My name is here, and so is yours, Madame.
"Didn't I say they don't have a nest?" sputtered Jenny. "Mrs. Nighthawk doesn't lay but two eggs, anyway. Perhaps she thinks it isn't worth while building a nest for just two eggs. Anyway, she lays them on the ground or on a flat rock and lets it go at that. She isn't quite as bad as Sally Sly the Cowbird, for she does sit on those eggs and she is a good mother.
And you couldn't have blamed him. It was the Merry Little Breezes of Old Mother West Wind who first told Peter who the stranger was and warned him to watch out, because Old Man Coyote is just as fond of Rabbit as Granny or Reddy Fox, and is even more crafty and sly than they.
It had required some maneuvering for Tim to get permission to see Fog alone, but he had used his influence on the force and managed this. Fog was a sly dog. He wanted to make sure on which side his bread was buttered before he became communicative. At first he had been willing to tell exactly nothing. He had already been seen by Durand, and he had a very pronounced respect for that personage.
The women and old tame men folk are, inside; the young wild boys and ontamed men folk are on the fences, outside a settin' on the top rail, a speculatin' on times or marriages, or markets, or what not, or a walkin' round and studyin' hoss flesh, or a talkin' of a swap to be completed of a Monday, or a leadin' off of two hosses on the sly of the old deacon's, takin' a lick of a half mile on a bye road, right slap a-head, and swearin' the hosses had got loose, and they was just a fetchin' of them back.
Let the appeal of a powerful mind be made to the jury, and all the small address, and practical skill, and sly ingenuity, are dropped behind.
Rosina had never been sly in her life; she was ever as simply without shame as Eve before the Fall, and lawless because she knew no law. The darkness of Northern cities is tainted and cold and cannot bring forth such kindly things as the rosine little roses that spring up in the warm, sweet Roman dust. "Here is Varini's."
'Well, it is not a thing you'd forget easily and indeed it was a very well kept secret, as well as an ugly one, and Lake smiled in his sly quizzical way. 'And where, Captain Lake, did it occur, may I enquire? said Larkin, with his charming insinuation. 'You may, and you shall hear in fact, I'll tell you the whole thing. It was at Gray's Club, in Pall Mall.
Don't kick him again." "Yes, but look here, Uncle Sid, they " "I will take care of things," cried Sid Merrick, and so sharply that his nephew at once subsided. But on the sly he shook his fist at both Tom and Sam. "Maybe we had better make sure that nobody else is around," suggested Shelley, who had been Merrick's best aide in the capture.
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