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Updated: May 4, 2025
As some have an impulse to fling themselves from a height, she had one to give herself to Uxmoor, quietly, irrevocably, by three written words dispatched that night. But it was only an impulse. If she had written it, she would have torn it up. Presently a light thrill passed through her: she wore a sort of half-furtive, guilty look, and opened the window.
The visitors veiled their curiosity and said some pleasant casual things to the young wife, but she saw the half-curious, half-furtive glances, she caught a sidelong glance and smile, and when they were gone she took to looking at herself in a mirror, a thing she could scarcely be persuaded to do before.
He passed out of the House quickly, with the half-furtive quickness that marks a self-absorbed man; and as he passed the policeman standing stolidly under the arched door-way of the big court-yard he swerved a little, as if startled out of his thoughts. He realized his swerve almost before it was accomplished, and pulled himself together with nervous irritability.
He'll never fret or drink himself to death he's got enough vitality for twenty men. His face, which had worn a fixed, nervous smile, grew suddenly grave as her own, and his eyes roved round the room in the old half-fierce, half-furtive way. "Well, Gyp," he said, and his voice shook a little: "At last! Won't you kiss me?" The question seemed to Gyp idiotic; and suddenly she felt quite cool.
For a space, neither one uttered a word, or made another gesture, save that, in the first instant, Roderick raised his hat in silent salutation, and now stood with it held in his hand. Patricia's first act was to cast a half-furtive and wholly apprehensive glance over her shoulder, toward the doorway through which she had just passed.
The visitors veiled their curiosity and said some pleasant casual things to the young wife, but she saw the half-curious, half-furtive glances, she caught a sidelong glance and smile, and when they were gone she took to looking at herself in a mirror, a thing she could scarcely be persuaded to do before.
I noticed the action also," chimed in Mr. Darrow, who had stepped up, unobserved. "And I noticed something else. His whole appearance altered from the moment this coin came on the scene. An indefinable half-eager, half-furtive look crept into his eye as he saw it passed from hand to hand. I remember it now, though it didn't make much impression upon me at the time."
'That is absurd, retorted Mr. Lushington, with a half-furtive, half-angry glance. 'You know you are clever. Margaret knew it, of course, and she smiled again. The young man did not need to see her to be sure how she looked at that moment, for he knew her face well.
No honest, sun-burned rustics these, but pallid, narrow-eyed folk whose half-furtive, half-hectoring air gave me a sense of evil streets, of dark alleys and dens where iniquity lurked, and my alarm and abhorrence waxed acute, finding vent in words: "What vile wretches!"
"I expected to find you in bed nevertheless," he said. "What made you get up again?" She shook her head in silence, standing before him like a child that expects a merited rebuke. He put a hand on her shoulder that was authoritative rather than kind. "Lie down again!" he said. "It is time you settled for the night." She threw him a quick, half-furtive look. "No no!" she said hurriedly.
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