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In those old days female modesty was protected by a fan, behind which, and it was of a convenient semicircular breadth, the ladies present in the theatre retired at a signal of decorum, to peep, covertly askant, or with the option of so peeping, through a prettily fringed eyelet-hole in the eclipsing arch. 'Ego limis specto sic per flabellum clanculum.
Then he spoke about the squire, whom he confounded with Audley Egerton, and talked of elections and the Blue party, and hoped Leonard would always be a good Blue; and then he fell to his tea and toast, and said no more. Mrs. Avenel spoke little, but she eyed Leonard askant, as it were, from time to time; and, after each glance, the nerves of the poor severe face twitched again.
"That's true enough, old friend," cried the colonel, looking askant at his orange-coloured coat; "but faith, Addison, I wish you would set up a paper of the same sort, d'ye see; you're a nice judge of merit, and your sketches of character would do justice to your friends." "If ever I do, Colonel, I, or my coadjutors, will study at least to do justice to you."*
Dodd was deaf to her daughter's natural eloquence; it was remarkable how little her countenance changed while Julia appealed. She stood looking askant with horror at Alfred all through that gentle eloquent appeal. But nevertheless her conduct showed she had heard every word: as soon as ever her daughter's voice stopped, she seemed to dilate bodily, and moved towards Alfred pale and lowering.
"There is one," he continues, looking askant at the Indian, with the leer of a demon, "one, I take it, whom the young Tovas chief would wish to retain as an ornament to his court. Pretty creature the nina was, when I last saw her; and I have no doubt still is, unless your Chaco sun has made havoc with her charms.
My illusion about both the brothers is wholly dispelled and gone. I regret it, but both sustain McClellan, both look askant on Stanton, and belong to the conditional emancipationists, colonizationists, and other RADICAL preservers of slavery. All such form a class of superficial politicians, of compromisers with their creed, and are corrupters of others.
The old gentleman let the lines fall slackly on the fat backs of his sleek horses. "How? What's that?" "I say you're a great sufferer. You're a downtrodden slave." "Why, am I? How do you make that out?" "Well, if you don't know without having it explained to you! The world is against you it's making a doormat of you." Medora looked askant. What was the child up to now? "Poor father," she said.
"Not I," said Leicester, looking askant at the picture. "Don't tell no lies," said Mrs. Vint. "You do know him well." And she pointed her assertion by looking at the portrait. "O, I know him whose picture hangs there, of course," said Leicester. "Well, and that is her husband." "O, that is her husband, is it?" And he was unaffectedly puzzled. Mercy turned pale.
I know him: he is too much of a man to marry one girl when he loves another; and 'tis you he loves, and I hope you will be happy together." A few quiet tears followed these brave words, and Grace looked at her askant, and began to do her justice. "Ah!" said she, with a twinge of jealousy, "you know him better than I. You have answered for him, in his very words. Yet you can't love him as I do.
I don't know what they hoped for I do know what many feared; but this is what he said: "Yes, look over at our theatre and think of the little body of men and women there, who are to-day sore-hearted and cast down; who feel that they are looked at askant, because one of their number has committed that hideous crime!
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