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"I suppose you know that if you swear something on the Bible and break your oath you can be put in prison?" Mark demanded sternly. "Yes, of course." The oath was administered, and Hacking waited goggle-eyed for the revelation. "Is that all?" he asked when Mark stopped. "Well, it's enough, isn't it? And now you've got to help him to escape." "But I didn't swear I'd do that," argued Hacking.
He became despondent as they left London behind, but the necessity of interfering between a goggle-eyed and obtuse mate and a pallid but no less obstinate cook helped to relieve him. "He says he is going to sleep aft," choked the mate, pointing to the cook's bedding. "Quite right," said the skipper. "I told him to. He's going to take his meals here, too. Anything to say against it?"
The face of Shelton's friend beyond, composed, satirical as ever, was clothed with a mask of scornful curiosity, as if he had been listening to something that had displeased him not a little. The goggle-eyed man was yawning. Shelton turned to Halidome: "Can you stand this sort of thing?" said he. "No; I call that scene a bit too hot," replied his friend.
We passed abreast of the goggle-eyed lighthouse on the point which marks the landfall for most mariners when returning to the English Channel after a foreign voyage, close on to midnight not a bad run from Plymouth Sound, which we had left at four o'clock in the afternoon.
"Nope," said Arcot, leaning back in his chair. "Now comes the kicker. I suggest that we make the hull of foot-thick lux metal and line it on the inside with relux wherever we want it to be opaque. And we want relux shutters on the windows. Lux is too doggone transparent; if we came too close to a hot star, we'd be badly burned." Fuller looked almost goggle-eyed. "A foot of lux! Good Lord, Arcot!
Suppose Mr Specklems goes and gives the great staring, goggle-eyed thing a poke; I'm sure I wish he would." "I should just like to pickaxe him with my mortar-chipper," said an old cock-sparrow. "I'd teach him to come into other people's trees without being asked." "Let's ask him civilly to go," said the wren. "Let's shout at him, and frighten him," said the owl.
She was a gipsy by birth, goggle-eyed and hook-nosed, with a round yellow face. She was irascible and vindictive, and never gave way in anything to her husband, who almost killed her, and whose death she did not survive, though she had been for ever quarrelling with him.
He's ordered away, I'm glad to say. Just got the message." "Then perhaps he will go out with us," said Cluff, with obvious relief. "I sure did hate to think of leaving that boy here, with the game laws for goggle-eyed Americans entirely suspended." "No. He's ordered to Curacao to stay and watch. We've got to get him out to the Dutch ship somehow."
It was furnished with some high-backed leathern chairs, garnished with great goggle-eyed brass nails, of which, every here and there, two or three had fallen out or had been picked out, perhaps, by the wandering thumbs and forefingers of bewildered clients. There was a framed print of a great judge in it, every curl in whose dreadful wig had made a man's hair stand on end.
Boyd was as conscience-stricken as if he had personally wielded the poker. But the mind of Bridget was quite otherwise framed. Which, indeed, is witnessed to by the whole goggle-eyed populace in the truckle bed. "Didn't I tell ye, Jerry, ye cuckoo," whispered Connie, "she'd beat him? He's gettin' the Thick 'Un, just as I told ye!"
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