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He is the pallid, furtive-eyed man whom I observed the first day when the men were routed out of the forecastle to man the windlass the man I so instantly adjudged a drug-fiend. He certainly looks it. I asked Mr. Pike his estimate of the man. "White slaver," was his answer. "Had to skin outa New York to save his skin.
Tommy's eyes were twinkling as he murmured sympathetically: "If it's a three-year-old you want, there's a place in Havana called 'Casa de Beneficencia Maternidad, where furtive-eyed damsels leave kiddies at twilight, ring the doorbell, and beat it. You might pick up one there, as a last resort."
As he turned away and passed along the platform to the dog-cart, there came a roar, a shriek of a locomotive, a rush, and a train swept by towards the east, leaving a blear of scarlet in his eyes, and his ears ringing with the soldiers' cheers: "Vive la France! Vive l'Empereur! À Berlin! À Berlin! À Berlin!" A furtive-eyed young peasant beside him shrugged his shoulders.
A man stood in the open doorway a man of about fifty apparently, furtive-eyed, slightly shabby, though with an atmosphere about him that hinted of past dignity of carriage. "Jim Marchmont!" said Corrigan. He stepped forward, threateningly, his face dark with wrath.
"Bismarck has called for the menu; his cannon are hungry," he sneered; "there goes the bill of fare." "That's very funny," said a fierce little man with a gray mustache, "but the bill of fare isn't complete the class of '71 has just been called out!" and he pointed to a placard freshly pasted on the side of the station. "The the class of '71?" muttered the furtive-eyed peasant, turning livid.
At this point came my master back, looking exceedingly disconsolate. A starveling, furtive-eyed monk accompanied him. "The Bishop," he said, "is gone forth of his house. He is in attendance at the trial of a woman for witchcraft, one whom some of the common city folk hold to be a saint. But the young Duke and others swear that she is a witch, and hath murdered the Duke Casimir.
Twice his lips opened, in astonishment or fear, she could not tell which, but no sound came from them. He stood silent, watching her, furtive-eyed, crouching. In this interval her thoughts rioted in chaos, like dust before a hurricane. But a question dominated all: could she carry out her threat to kill Chavis, if he took the step? She knew she would.
"Startled at the rattling rings which held the hangings in place, and the impetuous swish of its folds, Lal Lu sprang to her feet and gazed with indignant rebuke upon the inconsiderate prince. "Heedless of the unconcealed disdain of her glance and ignoring the presence of the furtive-eyed waiting-woman, he cried: "'Lal Lu, the time for further parley is past.
"Two furtive-eyed individuals answering your description bought round-trip tickets and had me flag sixteen for them. They got on, all right. I saw them. And if they got off before the next station they must have landed on their heads, because Sixteen was making up time and Shorty pulled the throttle wide open at the first yank, I should judge, from the way he jumped out of town.
But there were other times times when the dancing wall-shadows were dark specters of ill-omen gloating ghoulishly before her horror-widened eyes as her brain conjured the picture of the man battered, broken, helpless, with bloated, sottish features, and bleared eyes a beaten man drifting heedlessly, hopelessly, furtive-eyed, away from his standards and from her.
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