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"The story that she stayed the night at a hotel in the mountains with young Mr. Brabazon when she was on the Continent." "And did you suppose 'twas true?" demanded Maria scornfully, her arms akimbo, her blue eyes gimleting Miss Caroline's face. "I I don't know what to think," began Miss Caroline feebly. Maria looked her up and down a look beneath which Miss Caroline wilted visibly.
He even went to bed with his clothes and cap on, and at every hour during the night would get up and prowl about the bunk house, one ear turned down the wind, his eyes gimleting the darkness. From time to time he would murmur: "There's something. What is it? I wonder what it is." What strange sixth sense stirred in McTeague at this time?
But the rest were a picture the mutinous face and keen eyes of Fanny Dover, bristling with defense, at the window; Zoe blushing crimson, and newly started away from her too-enterprising wooer; and the tall, thin, grim old maid, standing stiff, as sentinel, at the bedroom door, and gimleting both her charges alternately with steel-gray orbs; she seemed like an owl, all eyes and beak.
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