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"I'm glad to see you now, John," I said, hurriedly. "I would sooner see you than any other living person here." He held up a finger and eyed me pawkily. "Come, man, cornel" he said, laughing, "On your oath now, is there not a lady? And that minds me; you have no more knowledge of the creatures, no more pluck in their presence, than a child. Heavens, what a soldier of fortune is this?
A large grandiose notion swept over him that he had a great mission in the world. 'That's all I have to say to you, said Mark Snyder pawkily. Henry wanted to breathe instantly the ampler ether of the street, but on his way out he found Geraldine in rapid converse with the middle-aged and magnificently-dressed woman who thought that a lift could go up and down at once. They became silent.
Aifter aboot ten meenits mair o' this wark, she shot at me ower her shouther the obsairve, 'Isn't it an obstinate wretch? 'Aye, says I pawkily, 'he's gey dour; but he's only a Spey fush, an' of coorse ye'll maister him afore ye've dune wi' him! I'm thinkin' she unnerstude the insinivation, for she uttert deil anither word, but yokit tee again fell spitefu' tae rug an' yark at the sulkin' fush.
"And you must be going," he said; "I wish you could have waited to see Betty, who's on a visit to Carlunnan and should be home by now." As he said it, he was tapping his snuff-mull and looking at me pawkily out of the corners of his eyes, that hovered between me and his wife, who stood with the wool in her hand, beaming mildly up in my face.
"I didna think ye kenned hoo he rade," answered the boy pawkily, as he shot to the stable. "Weel," he added, "ye maunna gley asklent at the mere whan she comes hame some saipy-like!" When he returned on the mare's back, the farmer was waiting for him with the whisky-bottle in his hand.
"We are but an advanced guard," said he, with a happy thought at lying, "and our friends will be at your back before long." M'Iver laughed pawkily. "Come, come, Dalness," said he, "do you take us for girls?
He was a moralist by repute, and he would have suspected without reasons. When Mrs. Petullo broke down miserably in her third verse, he smiled to himself pawkily, went up to her with a compliment, and confirmed his suspicions by her first question, which was as to the Chamberlain's absence. As for the Chamberlain, he was by now hurrying with great speed through the castle garden.
Dayson asked in a low voice, leering pawkily, as though to indicate that he was a man who could be trusted to think of everything. "Will be to-morrow, I think," said Mr. Cannon. "Got that letter ready, Miss Lessways?" Hilda sprang into life. "Yes," she said, handing it diffidently. "But if you'd like me to do it again you see it's " "Plethora of H2O," Dayson put in, indulgent. "Oh no!" Mr.
"And what passed?" said the town-clerk, in a way as if he pawkily jealoused something. Mr Warner, however, in his placid and minister-like manner, responded, "I told his Highness how I had received the call from Irvine, and thought it my duty to inquire if there was any thing wherein I could serve him in Scotland. "To this the Prince replied in a benign manner "
But how will ye get into the presence and confidence of the Lord Boyd?" "I thought," replied my grandfather, pawkily, "that ye had gotten our master's token; and I maun trust to you." "Oh," cried Winterton, "I got but the ane for the lad sent to Eglinton Castle." "And ha'e ye been there?" said my grandfather.
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