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Updated: June 4, 2025
"If Mose could just peek in wouldn't he stare?" said she, casting her eyes on a pile of silks that had been displayed upon the counter. Lottie smiled, and having directed Melindy's attention to a choice lot of dress material stepped to the other end of the ware-room to speak to one of her acquaintances. The shades were too dull to suit Melindy's taste.
Even now, had he written home, he might have had his position changed, but he thought himself very clever, and had no intention of letting his father know where he had gone. The last of the trio was far more accustomed to salt water than was either of his companions. Jack Peek was the son of a West country fisherman.
And still you're thin!" Shirley was inclined to plumpness and had to choose her food more carefully than the others. As they turned toward the salon once more, Bet dropped into an easy chair and picked up a book. "Oh, Bet, don't get interested in a story yet! You'll have heaps of time to read before we get to Arizona. Come on, let's see if we can peek into the kitchen.
He hastened to the bedside and kissed her hand a little peek according to his custom. "You are ill?" "I have my migraine," she said. "You want Gerald?" "Yes," he said diffidently. "He had promised " "He has left me," Sophia interrupted him in her weak and fatigued voice. She closed her eyes as she uttered the words. "Left you?" He glanced round to be sure that the waiter had retired. "Quitted me!
There was nothing else they could do in the half darkness and the slow hours dragged themselves away monotonously. They had lowered the door, but still left it open upon the merest crack and out of this one or the other would peek at intervals, listening, heart in throat, for the dreaded sound of footfalls. But no one came. "I thought I hearrd a kind of rustling once," Archer said fearfully.
He was still wary of all "rich guys" and "sissies"; but he used to go down and peek through a hole in the fence of Temple's lot when they were practising their games. Mr. Ellsworth said nothing, only winked his eye at the boys, for he saw which way the wind was blowing. Tom Slade, king of the hoodlums, had the scout bug and didn't know it. Then, when the time was ripe, Mr.
"It will be as well for you and me to take watch and watch, and not to trust to any of the men, for although I have every confidence in Peek, I cannot say the same for the rest." Oliver, of course, agreed to this, and took the first watch.
An hour later Adoree tiptoed back to the piano after a surreptitious peek into the back room, whence nothing but the faintest murmurs issued. Her face was radiant. "You've played some high-priced divorce lawyer out of a good case, Mr. Cricket," she beamed on Campbell. "She's in his lap." Pope's rippling fingers paused, his hands dropped, and he sighed.
"By all means! I never dip into books, nor peek at the ending. I don't think it's fair to the author." "Then I will, indeed, begin at the beginning," smiled Arkwright, "for I'm specially anxious that you shall be even more than 'fair' to me." His voice shook a little, but he hurried on. "There's a girl in it; a very dear, lovely girl." "Of course if it's a nice story," twinkled Billy.
For it would never do, you know, to have the rabbits spied upon when they were hiding the eggs. It wouldn't be fair, any more than it would be right to peek when you're "it" in playing blind man's buff.
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