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F.S." He flushed an extraordinary crimson. Our eyes met. Somehow I don't know how or why, or for that matter why not I burst into a violent peal of laughter. Theodore stood staring, with two hot, bitter tears in his eyes. "Of course you think I came to ferret out that thing," he said. I shrugged my shoulders those of my body only.
He had good reason to believe that it was the Pamunkeys who had made some recent incursions, and he was determined to ferret them out. But it proved a difficult task. His men, tired of wandering here and there, soaked by drenching rains, and half-starved, began to waver. But their dauntless young leader, after permitting many to return, resumed the search with the rest.
Then befell another thing; for behind them the boughs of the hazels parted, and there stood that little evil thing, he or another of his kind; for he was quite unclad, save by his fell of yellowy- brown hair, and that he was girt with a leathern girdle, wherein was stuck an ugly two-edged knife: he stood upright a moment, and cast his eyes at Walter and grinned, but not as if he knew him; and scarce could Walter say whether it were the one he had seen, or another: then he cast himself down on his belly, and fell to creeping through the long grass like a serpent, following the footsteps of the Lady and her lover; and now, as he crept, Walter deemed, in his loathing, that the creature was liker to a ferret than aught else.
The figure just as if it had possessed neither sight nor hearing, neither sense nor sympathy for human sound glided noiselessly away; and Dan went yelling on. Towards home now. All thought of Bill Hook and the gray ferret was gone. Away he tore, the nearest way, which took him past the pound. He never saw the white cow: had the cow been a veritable ghost, Dan had not seen it then.
Jane Mohun suspected that she had on her ferret look, and guessed that Gillian's disgusted air meant that the idea of her turning over Lady Merrifield's drawers was almost as distasteful as that of the governess's doing it. 'Suppose Gillian goes down on Monday with Fanny, she said. 'She could manage very well, I am sure. Gillian cleared up a little.
Inspector Freeman made the orthodox statement that "the police were in possession of a clue which they were following up;" and I had a chat with him afterwards, and tried to ferret out about the clue, but he was close as wax.
That gentleman, who did not appear to recognize the new-comer, returned his look with a supercilious, contemptuous stare, and passed on with Edith who had courteously saluted the inattentive Mr. Ferret followed by Lady Maldon. "What is the meaning of that ominous conjunction?" demanded Mr. Ferret as the affianced pair disappeared together. "Marriage, Mr. Ferret!
The rabbit's natural enemy in England is the poacher, in Bluff its natural enemy is the stoat, the weasel, the ferret, the cat, and the mongoose.
He was a thin-faced creature, rheumy of eye, and drawing his breath as from a well; the ferret of the village for all underlying scandal and tattle, whose sole humanity was what he called pitifully 'a peakin' at his chest, and who had retired from his business of grocer in the village upon the fortune brought to him in the energy and capacity of a third wife to conduct affairs, while he wandered up and down and knitted people together an estimable office in a land where your house is so grievously your castle.
To wait for an answer to the propositions of the suspicious States-General until Philip III. had mastered the subject in detail, was a prospect too dreary even for the equable soul of Brother John. Dismayed at the position in which he found himself, he did his best to ferret out the reasons for the preposterous delay; not being willing to be paid off in allusions to the royal investigations.
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