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I had entirely despaired of the Sagamore's coming, and was beginning to consider the sorry pickle which this alarm must leave us in if Tarleton's Legion came upon us now; and that with our widely scattered handfuls we could only pull foot and await another day to find our Sagamore; when, of a sudden there came a-creeping through the darkness, out o' the very maw of the storm, a slender shape, wrapped to the eyes in a ragged scarlet cape.
His steps go a-creeping, creeping by, He speaks but a single word. You may hear his feet: you may hear them plain, For it's odd in a ghost they crunch. You may hear the whirr of his rattling chain, And the ting of his ringing punch. The gathering shadows of night fall fast; The lamps in the street are lit; To the roof have the eerie footsteps passed, Where the outside passengers sit.
The basket being large and heavy, Car had placed it for convenience of porterage on the top of her head, where it rode on in jeopardized balance as she walked with arms akimbo. "Well whatever is that a-creeping down thy back, Car Darch?" said one of the group suddenly. All looked at Car.
"Well, boy, could you see anything?" "Yes," replied Dummy, with a sharp nod of the head. "You can see two, if you go far enough, one on each side of the hill, keeping a look out." "Did they see you?" "Nay, I was a-creeping among the bushes." "Then it is of no use to try and get up unobserved, Mark," said Sir Edward, quietly. "It must be a bold open attack."
Baldwin: it's set my blood a-creeping to look at him ever sin' here he came into Slaughter Lane a-wanting to buy the house over my head: folks don't look the color o' the dough-tub and stare at you as if they wanted to see into your backbone for nothingk. That was what I said, and Mr. Baldwin can bear me witness." "And in the rights of it too," said Mr. Crabbe.
'HE wasn't here. There was a feeble old shadow come a-creeping down at last, as much like his substance when she know'd him, as your shadow when it's drawn out to its very finest and longest by the sun, is like you. But it was his remains, there's no doubt about that. She took on with joy, poor thing, as much as if it had been all of him! 'Had he bought land? asked Mr Bevan. 'Ah!
"Oho!" says this Rokesmith; here Mr Boffin clapped a finger against his nose, and tapped it several times with a sneaking air, as embodying Rokesmith confidentially confabulating with his own nose; "This will be a good haul; I'll go in for this!" And so this Rokesmith, greedy and hungering, begins a-creeping on his hands and knees towards the money.
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