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The Vicar's wife had arrived: she was a stout, anxious-eyed little woman, who was obviously alarmed, and talked much to assure those around her that she was quite at ease. Mr. Alfred himself was lazy, good-natured, indifferent he had drunk two or three glasses of sherry meanwhile to pass the time. Punctually at seven Mrs. Alfred appeared.
Such a melancholy careworn flock! poor relations of the plump Southdown that grazes on fat Sussex wolds. Long-legged, scraggy-necked, anxious-eyed, the sheep of the Landes bear eloquent testimony to the penury of the place and the difficulty of making both ends meet which in their case implies the burrowing of the nose in tufts of sand-girt grass.
It was rather a white-faced, anxious-eyed little Diana who entered the study. Miss Todd was sitting at her desk, and Hilary and Geraldine stood near her. They looked half resentful and half nervous. "Diana," began Miss Todd, "I've sent for you because I believe you're the only girl who can throw any light on this most distressing business. I'm going to ask you a straight question.
Lou unceremoniously pushed past her down the clean little hallway and paused for a moment upon the threshold of the room at its end. It was a kitchen, small, but as immaculately clean as the hall, and in a rocking-chair near the window sat an anxious-eyed young man with his bandaged foot up on another chair before him, and in his arms a tiny, rigid little form.
She lay with shut eyes for a long time till her head and hands should return to their proper size. She opened her eyes with a jerk. 'How stupid of me, she said aloud, 'to set the room in order for a parcel of dirty little children! They were there five of them, two little boys and three girls headed by the anxious-eyed ten-year-old whom she had seen before.
Waking to a glory of sun, I found my companion looking down on me all anxious-eyed where she knelt, her hand upon my shoulder. "Why, Joan," says I drowsily, "my lady " "You are groaning, Martin, so I came to you." "Groaning?" says I, flinching from her touch. "'Twas nought! An ill fancy a dream, no more. But here is the sun well up and I a-snoring " "Nay, you groaned and cried out, Martin.
Often I have watched them come up the aisle upon a Sunday, first the square, thick-set man, and then the little, worn, anxious-eyed woman, and last this glorious lad with his clear-cut face, his black curls, and his step so springy and light that it seemed as if he were bound to earth by some lesser tie than the heavy-footed villagers round him.
Therefore among the strenuous, the hurrying, and the anxious-eyed, one girl loitered on dilatory foot from wide window to wide window. "Girl" seems an inadequate word to describe Lena Quincy. It may be applied to any youthful feminine person, and Lena, in spite of her carefully-groomed shabbiness, was by no means one of the herd.
But they met wolves fighting for all that made the Pack, and not only the short, high, deep-chested, white-tusked hunters of the Pack, but the anxious-eyed lahinis the she-wolves of the lair, as the saying is fighting for their litters, with here and there a yearling wolf, his first coat still half woolly, tugging and grappling by their sides.
The moment his father entered the house and met him, on his return from the evening service at the village, he realized that some great change had come over him; he was very different from the depressed, anxious-eyed son whom he had left only a few days previous.
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