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With this he slammed the door in the boy's face, and then, stealing on tiptoe to a window, watched for his departure from the raft. To say that Mr. Grimshaw was rendered uneasy and apprehensive by this sudden appearance of one whom he suppose to be hundreds of miles away, and who was also the very person he was most anxious to avoid, would by no means express his feelings.
"Most certainly; it is equal to the best beef, or rather veal, which it more nearly resembles." As they were leaving the neighbourhood of the pool, Crawford exclaimed, "Did you see any one stealing behind those bushes out there? I am nearly certain I did." "Yes, I caught a glimpse, not only of one black fellow, but of two, and there may be more," said Rupert.
He nestled his lips to hers, and, after a little while, murmured: "Good-night, Edna!" "Good-night, my darling!" She gave him a stimulating potion, and arranged his head comfortably. Ere long his heavy breathing told her that he slept, and, stealing from his side, she sat down in a large chair near the head of his bed, and watched him.
Then as a just consequence of all this there was Duvillard's own home infected by himself, that frightful drama of Eve contending with her daughter Camille for the possession of Gerard, then Camille stealing him from her mother, and Hyacinthe, the son, passing his crazy mistress Rosemonde on to that notorious harlot Silviane, with whom his father publicly exhibited himself.
"'Now, said I, 'if you like to behave well, I'll think you as honest as the chief-justice; but if I catch you stealing, if it be only the value of a brass snuff-box, I'll have you flogged before the regiment as sure as my name's Maurice. "Oh, I wish you heard the volley of protestations that fell from him fast as hail.
Had I been detected in the act of stealing or counterfeiting money, I could not have felt more intense shame. He knew what brought me there. I saw it in his penetrating eye, his half-suppressed smile; and, ready to sink with mortification, I covered my face with the roses I held in my hands. "Do you admire the picture?" he asked, advancing to where I stood; "do you perceive the resemblance?"
All that we know certainly about his taking service with the Dutch Company is told in a letter from President Jeannin the French envoy who was engaged in the years 1608-9, with representatives of other nations, in trying to patch up a truce or a peace between the Netherlands and Spain to his master, Henry IV. Along with his open instructions, Jeannin seems to have had private instructions in keeping with the customs and principles of the time to do what he could do in the way of stealing from Holland for the benefit of France a share of the East India trade.
Fog mist was stealing along the Marin shore, and hiding Golden Gate when we arrived, and the rays of the sun took some time to make a clear path out to sea.
When youth lends this beautiful hollow its pure and diaphanous coloring, and edges it with closely-set eyebrows, when the light stealing into the circular cavity beneath lingers there with a rosy hue, there are tender treasures in it to delight a lover, beauties to drive a painter to despair.
We thought we knew the right man, but were not sure, and could not imagine what might happen if stealing grub should begin and continue. It is a sort of unwritten law that in parties such as ours, he who steals provisions forfeits his life. We knew we must keep watch and if the offense was repeated the guilty one might be compelled to suffer.
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