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Updated: May 10, 2025
Then he went forward stealthily, on his toes; swiftly, too, so that presently he was close enough to see the carbuncle scar on the neck of the man crouched behind a rock and watching the cabin as a cat watches a mouse-hole. A rifle lay across the rock before the man, the muzzle pointing downward. At that distance, and from a dead rest, it would be strange if he should miss any object he shot at.
Eileen as in a daze watched the theatric forefinger now pointed at the floor as if to the mouse-hole, now leaping ceilingwards like the cat, and her main feeling was professional. She was watching her pupil, storing up in her memory the mispronunciations and vulgarisms for later insinuative improvement. Only a tithe of her was aware of the impertinence.
"'The whole thing is soup on a sausage-peg, said the gaoler; 'but the soup may cost him his neck. "Now, this gave me an interest in the prisoner," continued the Mouse, "and I watched my opportunity and slipped into his prison for there's a mouse-hole to be found behind every locked door. The prisoner looked pale, and had a great beard, and bright sparkling eyes.
You had better tell me at once what you are alluding to, for I'm resolved I'll have it out before we leave this room. 'I wish I'd never married again, she said, now fairly crying, and looking round the room, as if in vain search for a mouse-hole in which to hide herself. Then, as if the sight of the door into the store-room gave her courage, she turned and faced him.
As he finally reached the ground, a scratching was heard in the corner, and he was instantly alert, and the next moment had fitted his nose, like a kind of india-rubber pad, deep into a small mouse-hole in the wainscoting, and was breathing long noisy sighs down into the delicious and gamey-smelling darkness. "Oh! be quiet!" came a voice from the bed.
The vertical front of the tunnel, faced with brick that had once been red, was now weather-stained, lichened, and mossed over in harmonious rusty-browns, pearly greys, and neutral greens, at the very base appearing a little blue-black spot like a mouse-hole the tunnel's mouth.
The Zeitoonli were going to tie Peter Measel, but he set up such a howl that Kagig at last took notice of him and ordered him flung, unbound, into the great wooden bin in which the horse-feed was kept for sale to wayfarers. There he lay, and slept and snored for the rest of that session, with his mouth close to a mouse-hole.
When Reynard sees his captor approaching, he would fain drop into a mouse-hole to render himself invisible.
At length, one morning, after she had watched the windows unweariedly as a cat watches a mouse-hole, she hurriedly exclaimed, "There he is!" "Who" asked Mrs. Vennard as hurriedly, with a dim idea that people in their State received visits from the sheriff. "Our treasurer!" said little Jane.
Guyler waited, watching that alley, he says, like a cat watches a mouse-hole and all in vain. He watched for an hour it was no good." "Pooh!" said Ayscough. "If it was Purvis, he'd walked straight through the alley and gone out at the other end." "No!" remarked Lauriston. "At least, not according to Guyler.
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