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Turning, he shouted to an inner room, from which in a moment emerged a short, stout, swarthy personage with a Jewish nose, a French head, an Arab eye with a squint in it, and a markedly Maltese expression. "This is an excellent guide, sir," said the clerk. "He speaks twenty-five languages."
The Belgian officers in their dark blue were less conspicuous. I thought they had an unfair advantage of me, and that it was idiotic of the British to wear and advocate anything so absurd as khaki. My cape ballooned like a sail in the wind. I felt at least double my ordinary size, and that even a sniper with a squint could hardly miss me.
His perpetual squint and bristly, short beard were a great injustice to him. They gave him a look severer than he deserved. A limp and leaning shoulder complete the inventory of external traits. Having eaten, he set a candle in the old barn lantern. "Wal, mister," said he, when all was ready, "come out an' look at my hoss."
'I say, said Dangerfield, with a startling laugh, observing Irons wince, and speaking as the puff of smoke crossed his face, 'he'd lodge a bullet in the cur's heart, as suddenly as I've shot that tree; the bullet had hit the stem right in the centre, 'and swear he was going to rob him. Irons eyed him with a livid squint, but answered nothing.
"I should imagine," said our rising local artist, with a meditative squint at the picture, "that the fault was in the technique rather than in the subject-matter of the portrait." "Precisely," said Josephine, triumphantly. "Besides, Mr. Binkey says it needs varnishing." What can one say in the teeth of professional authority?
"Aye, Aye," cried the Captain, "you may talk what you will of your eye here, and your eye there, and, for the matter of that, to be sure you have two,-but we all know they both squint one way."
"She's my wife, an' see you speak of her as such," Billy warned. "Now get out, if you know what's good for yourself." "I've seen your kind before," the constable retorted. "An' I've got my little persuader with me. Take a squint." The shaft of light shifted, and out of the darkness, illuminated with ghastly brilliance, they saw thrust a hand holding a revolver.
But he proceeds to add hasty, with a shrewd squint at Hallam: "Course, it's different with you. Say, how about buyin' the estate here? I'd be willin' to let it go cheap." "No, thank you," says F. Hallam, crisp. "Part of it then," insists Riggs. "I'd been meanin' to write you about it. I generally do write 'em while while they're on the front." "No," says Hallam, and edges toward the door.
A refusal would be followed by a fight. In another family Tongo was incarnate in the mullet, and the penalty for eating that fish by any of them was a disease ending in a squint. TUIALII King of Chiefs. In one family this god was greatly praised as being a good and kind deity. In a time of scarcity, for instance, he led them to some place in the bush where they could dig up plenty of wild yams.
She had no gloves on, and whenever she walked with Mr. Robinson near to me, I'd take a long squint at her left hand; but there was no distinguishing a wedding-ring by moonshine, and even had it been broad daylight it would have been all the same, for the jewels lay so thick on her fingers you'd have fancied them sparkling with dew.
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