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But he took no notice. "They found Thompson's body," he said heavily, as a man does when he is sick with shock. "Who found it? Why, he wasn't here! What in hell do you mean?" I told him. Dudley sat and goggled at the two of us, but Macartney stared at the floor, his face still ghastly. "I beg your pardon, Stretton," he muttered as if he were dizzy. "Only Thompson was about the oldest friend I had.
Smyrna perked up and goggled its astonishment when Hiram Look shipped his pet elephant, Imogene, by freight in a cattle-car, and followed by next train accompanied by various tight-mouthed members of the Smyrna fire department and Colonel Gideon Ward.
No, sir, not precisely 'ardly that, sir, and then only very occasional, sir!" "Then you've never got on to yourself got wise to yourself seen yourself as you really are?" Mr. Brimberly goggled and groped for his whisker. "I mean," pursued his master, "you have never seen all your secret weaknesses and petty meannesses stripped stark naked, have you?" "N-naked, sir!" faltered Mr.
And truly enough, it did come about that on a height-of-the-season evening a highly cosmopolitan party of four couples trooped into the solid-marble foyer of the Geyser Springs Hotel, motor coated, goggled, veiled; a whole litter of pigskin and patent-leather bags, hampers, and hat boxes, two golf bags, two Pomeranians, a bull in spiked collar, furs, leather coats, monogrammed rugs, thermos bottles, air pillows, robes, and an ensemble of fourteen wardrobe trunks sent by express.
The figure straightened and gazed about the camp. Grotesque, bloated semblance of a man! Helmeted, with rounded dome hood, suggestion of an ancient sea diver, yet goggled and trunked like a gas-masked fighter of the twentieth century. He stopped presently and disconnected metal weights which were upon his shoes. Then he stood erect again, and with giant strides bounded along the cliff.
Suddenly, like a boiler exploding, she began to laugh. "They're the funniest things I ever saw in my life," she gurgled. "Mr. Pepper, do look! He's trying to cut the electric wire with the scissors, and everything blazes up. And you've been hiding this from me all that time!" Archie goggled dumbly. She dived at a table, and picked up a magazine, pointing to one of the advertisement pages.
In the glare of the lamps Peter made out a man as tall as himself, in a linen duster that came to his heels, and with an automobile cap and goggles concealing most of his face. The stranger jerked the gate open, and a moment later Peter was confronting the goggled eyes. "Are you," said a pleasant voice, "by good fortune, Peter Champneys?"
"How do you mean," said Francie, "fatal?" June did not answer her. "I shan't wait to see them off," she said. "Good-bye!" "Good-bye!" said Francie, and her eyes, of a Celtic grey, goggled. That old feud! Really, it was quite romantic! Soames, moving to the well of the staircase, saw June go, and drew a breath of satisfaction. Why didn't Fleur come? They would miss their train.
I asked of a gay young frog who came tripping along with his hat under his arm. "Miss Muffit is a fashionable lady, and afraid of spiders, madam; also of frogs." And he puffed himself angrily up, till his eyes quite goggled in his head. "And, pray, who are you, sir?" I asked, staring at his white vest, green coat, and fine cravat. "Excuse me, if I don't give my name, ma'am.
He had a fish-like, cold, impenetrable inscrutability. True, his yellow skin grew yellower, his gaping mouth gaped wider, his goggle eyes goggled more than usual. Left to himself, I think he would have disgraced Don John and banished Escovedo there and then, as he did, indeed, suggest. And I have since had cause enough to wish to God that I had left him to himself.
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