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And smiling she proceeded, addressing herself to lady Feng, "Your cousin has no idea of what's right and what's wrong. Even though he may have had something pressing to do, why didn't he utter just one word, but stealthily bolted away on his own hook? Will this sort of thing ever do?
How I wished I knew what room she occupied! The beauties and joys of that hour were lost to every person on the place, who were all, no doubt, in their soundest sleep. I did not even see a dog. Quietly and stealthily stepping from bush to hedge, I went around the house, and as I drew near the barn I fancied I could hear from a little room adjoining it the snores of the coachman.
So stealthily he went that even his companion heard no stir.
On his right was the wall-like side of the gully they ascended; on his left the sheer precipice down to the awful torrent; before them the sound of a mighty cataract; and behind the enemy, coming quickly and stealthily on.
She refrained from judgment in his case. His case, for intangible reasons, seemed separate and different. But fear, as of formless bugaboos in the dark, burned in her heart at the idea of his influence perhaps being able, creepily, stealthily, to convert Gerald.
He crept stealthily forward to the gap where he had concealed the racer, drawing nearer and nearer to the bushes lining the lane. Only by a patch of greater darkness before him did he realize that he had reached it. But when the realization came one word only he uttered: "Gone!" His car had disappeared! Despair was alien to his character: A true Englishman, he never knew when he was beaten.
The bolts of Antonia's house flew back, and the doors opened before the silver myrtle. But as he passed stealthily through the house a woman confronted him. It was Antonia's mother, roused by a fearful dream. "Monster of hypocrisy!" she cried in fury. "I had already suspected you, but I kept silence. Now I will unmask you, villain!" "Forgive me, lady!" begged the terrified monk.
I'll get a veil for my hair." She closed the French window and hurried away. She reappeared at the front door and shut it stealthily after her. "Nobody saw me go. You must get me back before Mrs. Noxon comes home, or there'll be a scandal." "Depend on me!" said Jim. Muffling their laughter like two runaways, they stole down the steps. Her high-heeled slippers slipped and she toppled against him.
She turned back to the room where the white petticoat lay upon the chair, but stopped with a little cry of alarm. A man was standing in the centre of the room. He had entered stealthily by the back door, and had waited for her to turn round. He was haggard and travel stained, and there was a feverish light in his eyes. His fingers trembled as they adjusted his belt, which seemed too large for him.
We then took the bells off our dog collars and packed our sleds behind closed doors; but it was no go. In spite of all our precautions three dog-teams followed our trail as we slipped stealthily out of camp at midnight. The moon shone brightly and the snow was not too deep. The boys kept at a respectful distance behind us, and we mushed along between low hills mostly up the streams on the ice.
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