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Toby, sure enough, it was Toby with his little black nose and bright eyes gleaming from behind the overhanging shaggy hair, that no one but a Toby could have seen through without squinting Toby, rather subdued and meekly inquiring at first, as if not quite sure of his welcome, till a glance round the room satisfying him that there was no one to dread, no one but his two dearly-beloved friends his courage returned, and he rushed towards them with short yelps of delight, twisting about his furry little body, and wagging his queer short feathery tail, till one could not tell what was what of him, and almost expected to see him shake himself into bits!
'Go downstairs, you vicious boy, said Mrs Todgers, holding the door open. 'Do you hear me? Go along! After two or three dexterous feints, he went, and was seen no more that night, save once, when he brought up some tumblers and hot water, and much disturbed the two Miss Pecksniffs by squinting hideously behind the back of the unconscious Mrs Todgers.
It was one more proof added to the forty in Aunt Letty's book. Richard's positiveness made a deeper impression on her than she liked to acknowledge. She shut her eyes a moment, squinting them up so tight that her eyelids wrinkled, and hoped as hard as she could hope that everything would turn out all right.
"The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting; it squints towards monarchy. And does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king.... Where are your checks in this government?
A warrior who had seen service, probably, but whose surly physiognomy was somewhat disconcerting. The two officers had been in earnest conversation, but when Mr. Merrick's party was ushered in, the elder man leaned back in his chair, squinting and scowling, and regarded them silently. "Huh!" exclaimed the colonel, in a brusque growl. "What is it, von Holtz?"
'He is that, replied Sponge; 'best horse in this country by far. 'The che che chest nut's not a ba ba bad un. I dare say, observed Jack. 'No, he's not, replied Sponge; 'a deuced good un. 'I know a man who's rayther s s s sweet on the b b br brown, observed Jack, squinting frightfully. Sponge sat silent for a few seconds, pretending to be wrapt up in his 'sublime tobacco.
On Front Street they saw a man, and both cried out: "Look, there he is." The man was a wild-looking specimen. He had the rolling gait of the deep sea. A squinting eye gave him a villainous leer, while a bristly beard and long gray hair made him a ferocious spectacle. His age was doubtful, as the lines in his ruddy skin might have been cut by dissipation as much as age.
He put this interrogation to Allen, carefully avoiding reference to anything which would give the sheriff any idea that he possessed any suspicion that Dakota was not really guilty. "That's what's bothering me!" declared the latter. "He's had time enough to hit the breeze clear out of the Territory. Though," he added, squinting at Langford, "Dakota ain't never been much on the run.
"Who are you, anyway?" the injured man asked, turning his little squinting eyes upon Douglas' face. For the first time he seemed to realise that it was a stranger who had assisted him. "I am John Handyman, Jake Jukes' help," was the reply. "I have come to give you a hand with the hay this afternoon." "And isn't Jake coming?" "No.
On market days the main down-town street is filled with them long-limbed, slow-moving old fellows, with eyes and foreheads wrinkled from years of squinting in the bright plateau sun, faces bronzed and weathered like an old farmhouse, shuffling down the pavement and into and out of shops with the slow, soft-footed gait of so many elk.
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