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"I should have waited all night, monsieur, even though I had lost my post for it," he said explosively, and I reached out and gripped his hand. "You may not have seen the baggage here," continued the captain slyly. I glanced round me.
Every moment the old nurse expected Helen to walk out, to walk out in her queenly way, with her beautiful face and manners, so different from those around her. Jud Carpenter sat at his desk quietly cutting plug tobacco to fill his pipe-bowl, and watching the old woman slyly. "Oh, she'll be 'long 'torectly you see the drawer-in bein' in the far room comes out last." The last one passed out.
"I do believe you're a little proud of me." "Heaven forgive me, I believe I am. A grandfather's heart But there, good night, my dear. Let me light your candle." She took her cloak, and followed him out to the hall table. There she mentioned that she was going away early to-morrow. "To the convent?" he slyly asked. "Ah, don't tease me, grand-papa." "Well, I am sorry you are going away, my dear.
The worshippers present looked at us with curiosity, but without ill-will; and before we left, one of the priests came slyly with some fragments of the ancient gilded mosaic, which, he was heathen enough to sell, and we to buy. From St. Sophia we went to Sultan Achmed, which faces the Hippodrome, and is one of the stateliest piles of Constantinople. It is avowedly an imitation of St.
Marcella could not bring herself to say good-night to her, and was hurrying on without a word, when Mrs. Jellison stopped her. "An' 'ow about that straw-plaitin', miss?" she said slyly. "I have had to put it on one side for a bit," said Marcella, coldly, hating the woman's society. "I have had my hands full and Lady Winterbourne has been away, but we shall, of course, take it up again later."
"You are impatient, my dear," said Temple as one speaking to a very young child. "And there are matters which you don't understand; which I cannot even discuss with you. But," and he winked very slyly, less at Terry than just in a general acknowledgment of his own acumen, "you just wait a spell! I've got somethin' up my sleeve somethin' that Oh, you just wait, my dear!" Terry sniffed.
"The veldt's in South Africa, Jock," someone said, slyly. "No, no it's the Rocky Mountains you're meaning. They're in South Africa I climbed three of them there in a day, once. Weel, I was going to tell ye of this time when we were hunting gold " And he went on, to spin a yarn that would have made Ananias himself blush. When he was done it was time to gang back to work, and my song not sung!
He spoke, among others, of the "Gold Bug." "The story is grand," said he, "but it might as well have been written of Robinson Crusoe's island. What a fellow wants in a book is to know where he is. There are not many novels, or ancient works for that matter, that put you down anywhere." "There is that genuine fragment which Cicero has preserved from a last work of Aristotle," said Mr. Hill, slyly.
The stars now came forth, one by one, to gaze about them, but slunk back slyly when their Queen, still youthful with increasing horns, peeped over the eastern wave at us; and when, in her first glance of splendour, she cast a strong white light on the rocky shore encircling the bay, its calm, clear water, taking a greener tint from the wooded sides of the mountains, looked like an emerald set in silver.
As he walked up and down that part of the courtyard which was at the side of the house, with the stray rooks and jackdaws looking after him with their heads cocked slyly, as if they knew how much more knowing they were in worldly affairs than he, if any sort of vagabond could only get near enough to his creaking shoes to attract his attention to one sentence of a tale of distress, that vagabond was made for the next two days.