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I have seen him rubbing his hands together with glee and looking quite leery as he thought of what was coming to me." But Grizel could not laugh now. When Tommy saw so well through Aaron and David, through everyone he came in contact with, indeed, what hope could there be that he was deceived in Elspeth? "And yet she knows what takes him there; she must know it!" she cried.
"Then yes you can show me a looking-glass if you have one!" Crofts had a small one on his chimney-piece. "By the Lord Harry," said he, handing it, "but you tip-top 'tecs are a leery lot!" Langholm went north next morning by the ten o'clock express from King's Cross.
Well, I'll go on an' chance it; but I'm leery that somethin' will happen." We arrived next day in time for supper, an' Barbie an' Jabez was mighty glad to see me. Barbie went wild over the chickens, just as I knew she would, an' Jabez said that he used to like eggs himself when he was a boy, an' would have got some poultry long ago if he'd only thought of it.
The doorkeeper refused to admit me, but I caught his eye, which was glassy, and received a leery wink, while a bottle of bitters nestled cosily in the open bosom of his shirt. Hopeful that the signs were favorable, I apologized and withdrew, but was shortly afterwards sent for and informed that an exception had been made in my favor, and that I might cross the river at my will and pleasure.
They told him he wasn't the sleuth he thought he was, so he came back. They'll have the laugh on him now, for sure." McCann listened with admirable good-nature, gravely pulling at his cigar, and eyeing Mr. Cooke with a friendly air of admiration. "Mr. Crocker," he said, with melancholy humor, "it's leery I am with the whole shooting-match. Mr.
I ain't afraid any more of not gettin' work in the country. I was at first, but I didn't tell you. Just the same I was dead leery when we pulled out on the San Leandro pike. An' here, already, is two places open Mrs. Mortimer's an' Benson's; an' steady jobs, too. Yep, a man can get work in the country." "Ah," Saxon amended, with a proud little smile, "you haven't said it right.
She also noticed as they walked along that he was saluted by a great many people, and also, before she had done with him that morning, she noticed that the leery, impudent looking, coloured folk seemed to come under a blight as they passed him, giving him the wall and yards to spare.
The hatches were on, and everything was orderly before Coke's squat figure climbed the gangway. Hozier reported the young lady's visit, and the skipper was obviously surprised. As he hoisted himself up the steep ladder to the hurricane deck, the younger man heard him condemning someone under his breath as "a leery old beggar."
"He don't look as though he could do much damage. He's a stranger around here. Don't talk like any of the usual crowd. I was a bit leery of him at first, but the lads seemed to cotton to him right off, so I let 'em have their way." "Well, we'll see what he amounts to," Mr. Kent commented. "No harm in doing him a good turn I reckon."
"There has been a disagreement?" "A little." "Perhaps you were to blame," suggested the stranger. "I was in many ways," sighed the meek Elizabeth. "I swept up the coals when the servants ought to have done it; and I said I was leery; and he was angry with me." The lady seemed to warm towards her for that reply. "Do you know the impression your words give me?" she said ingenuously.
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