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A wink o' sleep, I may say, didn't crass my eye these three nights; an' I'd wish to stretch myself beside the poor boy widin. I'm an my keepin', boys, and fwhin you know that the law was at my heels fwhor the last foive weeks, you'll allow I want rest: throth I must throw myself somewhere."
Parlin said aunt Madge mustn't be nervous; that children were very apt to be "out of their heads" in the night, and she was pretty sure Prudy would wake up bright in the morning. Aunt Madge tried to hope so, but she hardly slept a wink, for Prudy tossed and twisted all night. Sometimes she thought she was picking berries on the tufted coverlet.
"Yes," continued Miles in the attitude of a stage threat, "and if we can't find a lake around here we can find a deep snowdrift to throw him into." "I wonder if he catches the drift of that argument," said Clifford Long, with a wink at Miles.
"All right, sir," Bill acquiesced, as he threw a wink to a man across the aisle and settled back in his seat. "I've got nuthin' more to say." Dr. Rannage was evidently embarrassed. He mopped his face with his handkerchief, and took another drink of water. "I think I have explained matters quite fully," he at last continued, "and perhaps my companions here would like to say something.
She would not; whether it was that she was willing to wink at the thing, or through negligence: she told him that Grotius' wife had assured her there was nothing but books in it; and that they might carry it to the boat. It is affirmed that a soldier's wife who was present, said there was more than one example of prisoners making their escape in boxes.
I glanced at her, where she had sank down on a dilapidated sofa, but no expression of her face told me she had overheard. It was the man's wink, more than his language, which angered me. "Cut out your references to the lady," I said in a low tone, "unless you are starting in for trouble." "Oh, skittish, hey! Wal, stranger, I never run away frum no troble yet, an' I reckon I don't begin now.
When I grew restless again I took advantage of a ship that was trading to Sardinia and Corsica; and very glad I was to feel the fresh breeze and the sea-spray in my face once more. 'But isn't it very hot and stuffy, down in the hold, I think you call it? asked the Water Rat. The seafarer looked at him with the suspicion go a wink. 'I'm an old hand, he remarked with much simplicity.
You're by with it, James More. You can never show your face again with dacent folk." James was taken all aback with it. He stood a second, motionless and white, then swelled with the living anger. "Do you talk to me, you bastard?" he roared out. "Ye glee'd swine!" cried Alan, and hit him a sounding buffet on the mouth, and the next wink of time their blades clashed together.
Then, not allowing the spark to be extinguished on his tobacco, he would resume the clay, and spread out over his head and shoulders a long soft cloud of odorous smoke. But when any upstart so addressed him, any Goose not entitled by character to use the sonorous phrase, he would still retain his pipe, and simply wink his eye.
You ain't playing the goat with a dam lump of straw now; you're going to get a bit of your own back with a real live Fritz. And if you make a mistake you may not have a chance of making another. Go there steady; don't get blown, or you'll find you won't be able to do what you'd like when you bump Master Boche." He passed me with a salute and a wink. "Coming over?" he asked me.
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