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I knew he would about pay his soul for the drink that was due him in fifteen or twenty minutes; he was eyein' the bottle on the shelf right that minute. But I'd never seen a man's face give the lie to his spirit, either, the way his did, if he was the kind that would quit cold. "'Cash ain't no consideration with me, I told him, generous enough.
Robert's, all of whom Vincent had parked on the bench in the anteroom and was eyein' cold, and suspicious. He even holds up the Greek who came luggin' in the fresh towels, and Tony the spring water boy. "I feel like old Horatius," says Vincent. "Never met him," says I, "but whoever he was I'll bet you got him lookin' like one of the seven sleepers. That's the stuff, though. Keep it up."
Cherokee is a heap sot in his idees, an' I sees right off he's took a notion ag'in the Red Dog man. "'As you've got a lot of work cut out, says Cherokee, eyein' the Red Dog man malignant, 's'pose we tips the canteen ag'in. "'I shorely goes you, says the Red Dog man. 'I drinks with friend, an' I drinks with foe; with the pard of my bosom an' the shudderin' victim of my wrath all sim'lar.
And she sez: "Sister Calvin Martin lays there now in her tent with the Power. She lay there all day yesterday and all night." Some of the boys before me begun to titter and snicker at anybody's havin' the power, and I sez, eyein' 'em sternly, "Do you know what you're laughin' at, young men?
Before they had got very far my grandpa said he'd seen slavery abolished and the time warn't far off when hard drink would be done away with. I was eyein' my pa close, for I knew he drank a beer now and then, and I wanted to see what he'd say. But he didn't say nothin'. He just looked calm, and as grandpa went right on talkin', it would have been interruptin' if my pa did say anything.
Big, overgrown gal, black an' devilish-lookin', noways handsome; but somehow I jes' couldn't keep my eyes offen her. I notice she keep eyein' me, too. "W'en we gits ashore, I didn't lose no time gittin in a good word f' mahse'r.
"Of course I can not tell as to that. I never hear them say anything about you. They seem to think that you are one of the loyal East Tennesseans that are plentiful about here." "I've been afeered fur the last few days that some uv 'em were Rebels in disguise, an' thet they sort o' suspicioned me. I hev seed two on 'em eyein' me mouty hard. One has a red head, an' 'tother a long black beard."
I shakes my head and looks mysterious. "Isn't it green corn, or string beans that you're aimin' at, Torchy?" he asks. "Not exactly," says I. "Vegetable raisin' ain't in my line. I leave that to Dominick. But this oh, well!" "You don't mean," insists Nick, eyein' me close, "buried treasure!" "I expect some would call it that in these days," says I. Uh-huh!
So then George hopped right up and drew a fine figure on the board and lettered it, and was just about to set down and study the book, as I could see, because he was eyein' the professor and expectin' that some of the others would be called on first, and while the professor was watchin' somebody else demonstrate, he would study up. But it happened wrong: George was called on first.
"No ma'am, I'm not. Words can't begin to tell the tale when Mary gets the fever on. I thought I noticed symptoms of house-cleanin' last week. Mary was eyein' things round the house, and givin' me less and less to eat, and lookin' at me with that cold-storage stare of hers that means death or house-cleanin'." "But, Mr. Jackson," Betty pleaded, "your house has to be cleaned sometimes, you know."
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