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Her eyes still rested on his face, questioningly, appraisingly, as though she were seeking to estimate his preparedness for the ordeal before him, his ability to go through with it successfully, triumphantly. And in her mention of Langmaid he recognized that she had meant to sound a note of warning. She had intimated a consultation of the captains, a council of war.
"Are these the fire-tubes of which we have heard?" asked Copotone eagerly, longing to feel them, but not daring for fear of unknown magic. "Aye," answered Smith, "art thou strong enough to carry one to Werowocomoco?" The Indians looked them over appraisingly, wondering if they could drag them through the forest. "Set the match to this one, Dickon," commanded Smith with a grim smile.
"I hope you'll refuse. I'd rather be kicked, any day, than have to fight. But well, I wouldn't rather see a good dog kicked. Still, if you're content with what you've got, we'll call it a day. I'll take the dog and be moving on." The barefoot man's bewilderment was once more merging into wrath, at the amused superiority in Brice's words and demeanor. He glowered appraisingly at the intruder.
"Your present appearance," the old man continued, eyeing him appraisingly, "does not in any way bear out the description I had of you some years ago. I was told that you had become a broken-down drunkard." "The world is full of liars," Dominey said equably. "You appear to have met with one, at least."
Well, it seems that the pickpocket got just what he deserved." He offered the deputy a cigar, and the latter went out, satisfied. Later, Corrigan looked appraisingly at Levins, who still graced the office. "That was rather an easy job," he said. "Marchmont was slow with a gun. With a faster man a man, say " he appeared to meditate " like Trevison, for instance. You'd have to be pretty careful "
Then closing the window and turning down the lights in the room behind her, Miss Terry hid in the folds of the curtain and watched to see what would happen to Jack. The street was quiet. Few persons passed on either side. At last she spied two little ragamuffins approaching. They seemed to be Jewish lads of the newsboy class, and they eyed the display of candles appraisingly.
He looked appraisingly about the room, pausing at the stiff, distinguished, grey-haired couple, one on either side of the fire.
"You mustn't neglect it; there's danger of " "Gee! You're looking great," he interrupted. "It's better than a banquet just to look at you." "And YOU!" Norine scanned the invalid appraisingly. "Why, you're another man!" "Sure! Listen to this." He thumped his chest. "Best pair of bellows in Cuba. The open air did it." "What a pity you were hurt just at such a time. But you would take insane risks.
But she knew what frills and ruffles were. "And how about their waists?" said she. "Like mine, are they?" He looked, appraisingly, at the loose basque, which, because of the budding beauty of her form rather than because of any merit of its own, had seemed to him most charming and attractive. Close examination did not show this to be the case.
She laughed as she spoke, but her blue eyes surveyed the boy appraisingly as she tucked him into the space between herself and Miss Clarkson. He had stood cap in hand during the meeting between the ladies; now he replaced his cap upon his head, fixed his black eyes on the restless tail of the fat pony, and remained submerged under the encroaching summer garments of both women. Mrs.
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