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High-thoughted, quick-nerved to follow the thought, reflective, if an interval yawned between his hand and the act, he was by nature two-minded: as full of conscience as a nursing mother that sleeps beside her infant: she hears the silent beginning of a cry. Before the ghost walked he was an elementary hero; one puff of action would have whiffed away his melancholy.
I had a stiff tustle with him before he gave in; but finding he could not damp the burning curiosity which devoured me, and that my ears were deaf to the somewhat rough music of his reasoning and his predictions, the worthy man at length closed the fountain of his eloquence, and, though growling and mumbling in an under tone at my juvenile obstinacy, which had deprived him of his bed and his supper, quietly took his seat in the tree; then drawing from the bottom of his pocket some tobacco and a short pipe his consolation in his greatest misfortunes he whiffed away, burying his irritated countenance in his breast by way of showing his vexation.
He whiffed the bark, his tail wagging. Then he jumped down and looked up once more. Earle's voice was strangely quiet when he spoke. "I see him," he said. They all crowded about. "My God he's way out at the end of the top limb. If his head swims " He began to talk loud, his face still raised. "Joe, listen, old man. We are all your friends down here. Tommy's here."
What had brought her here? She knew she mustn't come! Old Heythorp had watched her entrance with cynical amusement. The way she whiffed herself at that young pup in passing, the way her eyes slid round! He had a very just appreciation of his son's widow; and a smile settled deep between his chin tuft and his moustache.
Being thus covered and muffled, she whiffed off a lusty good draught out of the borachio, took three several pence forth of the ramcod fob, put them into so many walnut-shells, which she set down upon the bottom of a feather-pot, and then, after she had given them three whisks of a broom besom athwart the chimney, casting into the fire half a bavin of long heather, together with a branch of dry laurel, she observed with a very hush and coy silence in what form they did burn, and saw that, although they were in a flame, they made no kind of noise or crackling din.
Well, he proved to be the "round peg in the round hole," for what did he do but tap the very first ball up for as pretty a single as any one would want to see. This was certainly a good beginning. Joe Danvers "whiffed out" after knocking several foul strikes.
"Bekaise," replied his father, with more quickness than might be expected, as he whiffed away the smoke with a face of very sarcastic humor; "I hard it had gone up a bit towards the mountains but I knew you wor the boy could tell me whether it had or not ha! ha! ha!" This rejoinder, in addition to the intelligence Hycy had just received from his mother, was not calculated to improve his temper.
Neither the Pah Utah nor the Irishman were disposed to make a move until they had finished their "smoke," and both of them whiffed as leisurely as though they had contracted to spend several hours thus.
Our friends now whiffed and puffed away together whiffing and puffing where whiffing and puffing had never been known before. The brandy began to disappear pretty quickly; it was better than the wine. 'That's a n n nice ish horse of yours, stammered Jack, as he mixed himself a second tumbler. 'Which? asked Sponge. 'The bur bur brown, spluttered Jack.
She served the liqueur from one of the lovely bottles and striking a match held it to his cigarette with ministering archness while he whiffed. "Well, have you heard from your husband lately, my dear?" he asked. "Not a sound," said she. "Where is he?" "I left him in Australia; and I suppose he's there still." Jude's eyes grew rounder. "What made you part from him?"
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