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Under the shade of her thick, low brows her dark eyes darted to and fro elusively. There are dark, swift, flashing beetles that flit so in the heat of summer among the blades of dry grass. 'How good you are, Musa, Musotchka! cried Tarhov. 'But you must stay, you must stay a little.... We'll have the samovar in directly. 'Oh no, Vladimir Nikolaevitch! it's impossible! I must go away this minute.
'Well, it is a great matter, he uttered elusively. He moved as if to walk off, then suddenly turned upon his heel again. 'Ye do me more ill by speaking in that guise than ever Cleves or Gardiner or all my enemies have done. For assuredly if rumours of your words should reach the King when he was ill-affected, it should go hardly with me. He paused, and then spoke gently.
The wenipow, or "lying down," smell of hoofed game was as different from the nechisoo, or "grazing smell," to Thor as day from night. One hung elusively in the air, like the faint and shifting breath of a passing woman's scented dress and hair; the other came hot and heavy, close to the earth, like the odour of a broken bottle of perfume.
It was apparent that by following a road which began at Catskill they would skirt the mountain along its less precipitous ascent, and Tom assumed that the trail, so doubtfully and elusively marked upon the height, would be easily discoverable where it left the road, as undoubtedly it did.
Constance studied him more intently. There was something elusively familiar about his expression; she was sure she had seen him before. 'Buon giorno, she replied in Italian. 'You have lived in the United States? 'Si, signorina. 'What is your name? 'I spik Angleesh, he observed. 'I don't care if you do speak English; I prefer Italian what is your name? She repeated the question in Italian.
"Excuse me, Mr. Simpson," he remarked presently, "but your face seems elusively familiar to me. I seem to know it, yet I cannot place it. Haven't I met you somewhere?" "Perhaps you were a lay delegate to the recent Episcopal Convention in New York?" politely suggested Mr. Pyecroft. "No. I did not even attend any of the sessions."
They seated themselves, and the young soldier pulled out from the shore, Demeré, both angry and cast down, realizing as he had not heretofore the imminence of the peril to the settlement. Dusk was upon the river; stars began to palpitate elusively in the pallid sky; shadows mustered thick along the bank.
The other haunting intimations of change seemed to be elusively blended with sensations the heat and thrill of action, the sense of something done and more to do, the utter vanishing of an old weary hunt for he knew not what. Maybe it had been a hunt for work, for energy, for spirit, for love, for his real self. Whatever it might be, there appeared to be now some hope of finding it.
It breathed the unfathomable strife of life of love, longing, hope, despair almost, yet subtly, elusively, would not tell the eternal "Why?" of all things. Not heeding time, he stood and listened.
About the halls and stairs one caught brief glimpses of white and blue opera cloaks edged with swan's-down alternating with the gleam of a starched shirt bosom and the glint of a highly polished silk hat. Odours of sachet and violets came and went elusively or mingled with those of the roses and pinks. An air of gayety and excitement began to spread throughout the house. "Hello, old man!"
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