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"Does he intend to eat them?" "Oh no; though I have no doubt they would be very good." "Their flesh is delicious," interposed Sumichrast; "the wing especially is a tidbit which I can highly recommend." But my friend could not keep a serious face when he saw Lucien's frightened look; so his joke partly failed in its effect. L'Encuerado entered the cave on tiptoe.
It was this: The poor mother of five children, putting them to bed one night, almost lifeless from hunger, and despairing of ever again seeing them alive, took her last look at them, and bade them her last farewell. She rose early in the morning, and her first act was to steal on tiptoe to where they lay.
Going on tiptoe, in stockinged feet, across my field of vision, passed Kegan Van Roon! He was in his shirt-sleeves and held a lighted candle in one hand whilst with the other he shaded it against the draught from the window.
A moment more and the little girl, standing on tiptoe had reached the windowsill and placed the shoe upon it, and was back again in the house beside Granny and the warm fire.
While Delaherche was raising himself on tiptoe, and trying to peer through the windows of the rez-de-chaussée, an old woman at his side, some poor day-worker of the neighborhood, with shapeless form, and hands calloused and distorted by many years of toil, was mumbling between her teeth: "An emperor I should like to see one once just once so I could say I had seen him."
A dreadfully nervous kind of man he was, walked on tiptoe, started at sudden noises, was distressed when he heard a whisper, had a quick, suspicious look, and was always saying, "Hush?" and putting his hands to his ears. The boys were not long in finding out this nervous weakness, of course.
How friends are raised up! and with a smile that shone like an April sun through her tears, she stood on tiptoe, and kissed the tall young lady, who not smiling, but with a pale and very troubled face bowed down and returned her kiss. 'You know, dear, before he went, Mark promised to lend dear Willie a large sum of money.
He was an anachronism, or Vallcy was. They were not attune. He and Vallcy clashed discordantly. Timorously, almost upon tiptoe, he reached the village street. A dog emerged from a field, sniffed at the crease of his trousers suspiciously and growled.
The two men, and two others, were returning from the house. In alarm Jack looked about for a way of escape. Across the barn was a smaller door. He ran for it on tiptoe, darted through, and found himself in the stable.
Watson's heavy tread on the stairs. They threw the clothes back on Philip and dashed like rabbits into their cubicles. Mr. Watson came into the dormitory. Raising himself on tiptoe he could see over the rod that bore the green curtain, and he looked into two or three of the cubicles. The little boys were safely in bed. He put out the light and went out.
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