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Updated: June 18, 2025
Well do I remember how his nose, which he could not, if his worthless life had depended upon it, render retroussé, grew sublimely curvilinear in its contempt, as his hawk-eyes estimated my pitiful family. I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised Goth!
Even Barrow or Jeremy Taylor would sound dull and stale if fired off in a flat, fierce monotone, without emphasis or modulation. To-night, at every page that turns, my heart declines lower and lower down. It is ended now; so is the short prayer that follows it. We all rise, and father stands with his hawk-eyes fixed on the servants, as they march out, counting them.
Now don't torment me any more about her. But I must go down stairs." She danced across the room in a graceful waltzing step, held out her hand towards the child, and touched one so tiny, cold, and damp, that she felt half inclined to take and warm it in her own. But Elspie's hawk-eyes were watching her, and she was ashamed.
He had been speaking as if to himself so far, but now turned his hawk-eyes upon Des Barres. 'Tell me now, he said, 'who gave the order to the rear to charge, against my order? 'Sire, replied Des Barres, 'it was the Duke of Burgundy. 'You do not understand me, said Richard. 'It came through the Duke of Burgundy's windpipe. But who put it into his thick head? Des Barres looked troubled.
Cavendish took it up listlessly, held it by its two ends, read its face, examined its back, and tossed it into a drawer, as if it were a suspicious sixpence. "It's a thousand dollars," said Mr. Belcher, surprised that the sum had apparently made no impression. "I see a retainer thanks!" All the time the hawk-eyes were looking into Mr. Belcher.
He was clad in a shiny black coat buttoned closely, and his shoes showed dusty and huge beneath his carefully turned-up trousers. A beaver of ancient pattern was pushed far back from his narrow forehead, and from beneath it flashed vividly his fierce hawk-eyes. Over his shoulder, suspended from a cane, was a carpet-bag.
"Seems to me you ask a good many questions for an idler." He stood on the sidewalk, looking up at her with his hawk-eyes, a man yet in the early thirties, but of obvious power. "We're going to buy second-hand benches, if you must know," continued he. "He says he can show me where to get 'em cheap. Anything else?" "No-o except ... How much will the benches cost?
That, at least, was what a fisherman from Praiano thought, as he turned his hawk-eyes upwards, standing to his oars and paddling slowly along, top-heavy in his tiny boat. But no native of Amalfi ever mistook a foreigner for an angel. Everything was quiet and peaceful again, and there seemed to be neither trace nor memory of the preceding day's invasion.
Two tears of pain were standing in Dick's hawk-eyes. He had seen Rachel kiss Hugh's hands. He ground his heel against the brick floor. The Bishop understood, and understood, too, the sudden revulsion of feeling. "Poor chap!" said Dick, huskily. "It's frightful hard luck on him to have to go just when she was to have married him.
"Jerningham, oh yes," added the Duchess, "on the whole, it's just as well." "But I thought " the hawk-eyes were very piercing indeed. "I feared it would be quite a blow to you " The Duchess shook her head, with a little ripple of laughter. "I had formed other plans for him weeks ago, they were quite unsuited to each other, my love."
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