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Some of the old houses that stand endwise to the street, looking askant at the passer, especially if he is a stranger in town, might be veritable treasuries of this sort of material. Gray, close-shuttered, and retiring, they have not so much the look of death; it is more that they are poor, widowed homes that have mournfully long outlived their lords.
No romances had there been in the lives of the Lawson sisters, and no repining over the lack of them. They had, in their youth, speculated as to what husbands the Lord might provide for them, and looked about for them with furtive alertness. When He provided none, they stopped speculating, and went on as sharply askant as hens at any smaller good pecks life might have for them.
Some years ago a man in a Connecticut town stopped this hurrying traveller, who said, in reply to a question, "I have lost the road to Boston. My name is Peter Rugg." Then Rugg's disappearance half a century before was cited by those who had long memories, and people began to look askant at Peter and gave him generous road room when they met him.
Though excited in their looks and wild in their conversation, they seemed perfectly prepared to accompany us. They looked with eyes askant at the mate and his three companions, but said nothing to them. "Well, gentlemen, are you ready to proceed?" exclaimed Mr Brand as we got up to them. "Certainly, noble mariners certainly," answered one of them. "But stay, we have some freight to accompany us."
He felt he was on the right tack: he enumerated fluently, and by name, many good men, besides Dean Swift, who had been ploughed, yet had cultivated the field of letters in their turn; and, in short, he was so earnest and plausible, that something like a smile hovered about his hearer's lips, and she glanced askant at him with furtive gratitude from under her silky lashes.
Denys looked askant at Gerard, and not liking the theme, shook it off. "I gather 'em off the trees by the roadside," said he surlily. "Then you gathered these too ripe," said the hostess, who was only a fool externally. "Ay, rotten ripe," observed another, inspecting them. Gerard said nothing, but pointed the circular satire by pantomime.
Pickwick and his portmanteau were thrown into the vehicle. 'Golden Cross, said Mr. Pickwick. 'Only a bob's vorth, Tommy, cried the driver sulkily, for the information of his friend the waterman, as the cab drove off. 'How old is that horse, my friend? inquired Mr. Pickwick, rubbing his nose with the shilling he had reserved for the fare. 'Forty-two, replied the driver, eyeing him askant.
The ass stopped munching, and looked askant at the squire. "Pooh! eat on; he'll not beat thee now." "No," said the squire, apologetically. "But after all, he is not an ass of the parish; he is a vagrant, and he ought to be pounded. But the pound is in as bad a state as the stocks, thanks to your new-fashioned doctrines."
As he puts the question, he becomes aware of a dirty-faced little man standing at the trooper's elbow and looking up, with an oddly twisted figure and countenance, into the trooper's face. After a few more puffs at his pipe, the trooper looks down askant at the little man, and the little man winks up at the trooper. "Well, sir," says Mr.
At that instant Laura cried from the window: 'These horses will go mad. The exclamation had the desired effect. 'Eh? pardon me, signorina, said the count, moving half-way to the window, and then askant for his hat. The clatter of the horses' hoofs sent him dashing through the doorway, at which place his daughter stood with his hat extended.
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