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I am afraid, very much afraid, that Reddy was planning to be saucy. People who think themselves smart are quite apt to be saucy. Presently they came to the bank of the Big River. Old Granny Fox told Reddy to sit still while she crept up behind some bushes where she could peek out over the Big River. He grinned as he watched her. He was still grinning when she tiptoed back.
Do you mind if I take a peek around?" she asked, laughing. "Not a bit!" She "peeked around" and satisfied her curiosity to the full. "I am convinced," she said at last, "that in all this domestic artistry there is the touch of a feminine hand. Who was, or who is, the lady?" "I understand Mrs. Horsfal furnished and arranged this home. She lived here every summer before she died.
If he did not believe in himself, how could he make others believe in him? Small men are apologetic and give excuses for being on earth, and reasons for staying here so long, and run and peek about to find themselves dishonorable graves. Not so the Great Souls the fact that they are here is proof that God sent them. Their actions are regal, their language oracular, their manner affirmative.
Tisbett said we were to play round here," said little Davie. "Of course," assented Joel, in a superior way "Well, let's peek in th' barn the first thing." "Oh, Joe, we mustn't go in!" exclaimed little David, holding him back. "Mr. Tisbett said we weren't to be in the barn." "I know it," said Joel, twitching away. "I said peek, Dave. Mr. Tisbett didn't say not to do that."
When permission to "peek" was given, Mary Alice didn't know herself. "There!" said the fairy, when the excitement of Godmother's delight had subsided, "I've always said that the three most important beauty fairies for a girl to find are the how-to-stand fairy, the how-to-dress fairy, and the what-to-do-with-your-hair fairy.
We peek out at this universe from our half-developed corner of it. We see faintly the millions of huge suns circling with their planet families billions of miles away. We see our own little sun rise and set; we ask ourselves a thousand foolish questions of cause and Ruler and because we cannot answer, we decry faith. Wise doubter, look at a small piece of iron. It looks solid.
He seemed to wake thoroughly then, and started up looking about him as if he suddenly remembered where he was, and doubted even that kind welcome. His face changed, and he said in his old rough way, "I was going off in the morning. I only stopped to peek in, as I went by." "But why not come in, Dan? Didn't you hear us call you? Teddy saw, and cried for you."
Forty-eight hours of fasting had sharpened his appetite, and the loaded tray whetted a razor edge, for a great bowl of broth steamed forth an exquisite fragrance on one side and beside it she lifted a napkin to let him peek at a slice of venison steak.
"Then we must see what we can do by ourselves," said Rayner. "We cannot allow Mr Crofton and Peek to perish while we have any means of going to their assistance. I must first see if we can patch up the boat so as to enable her to keep afloat."
I could invent many reasons for turning round; pretend I had lost my feeling of 'guidance, or pretend I heard a sudden noise, as of danger, or even pretend I felt I was going wrong. Well, I got a peek at those feet as often as was necessary, and the rest was just play-acting to mislead the people's minds.
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