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"An Englishman! eh!" muttered the Frenchman scanning him with a very scrutinising eye, "and you find our Revolutionary fine, eh! well," added he! "will you come and take a glass of wine with me?" The invitation was declined on the plea of business.
"Nothing, I assure you. I know your firmness of principle. I look at you now, not through the yellow glass used by a jealous husband in scrutinising his wife, but through the rose-coloured glass that a fond father holds before his eyes in regarding a beloved daughter. If you travelled in a stranger's company on your journey to Rome, that may very well have been a mere matter of chance.
On regaining the parade, he caused the men, already forming into companies and answering to the roll-call of their respective non-commissioned officers, to be wheeled into square, and then in a low but distinct voice stated the cause of alarm; and, having communicated the orders of the Governor, finished by recommending to each the exercise of the most scrutinising vigilance; as on the discovery of the individual in question, and the means by which he had contrived to procure admission, the safety of the whole garrison, it was evident, must depend.
The jeweller took the ring, viewed it in all directions with a scrutinising glance, held it to the light, pressed it to his tongue, turned it over and over, and finally declared that he could not sell such a ring under a thousand dirhems. 'Whatever be the justice of the case, said Honain to Abdallah, 'art thou ready to part with this ring for a thousand dirhems? 'Most certainly, said Abdallah.
She made place, with some remark; but Hal merely sobbed softly, and the woman felt for his hand to comfort him. As his hands were clasped together under the veils, she patted him reassuringly on the knee. At the boundary of the stockaded village the train stopped, and Bud Adams came through the car, scrutinising every passenger.
You both looked prodigiously serious." "I really don't know I forget it was nothing very particular," Clarissa answered, conscious that she was blushing, and confused by that consciousness. Lady Laura looked at her with a sharp scrutinising glance.
He passed slowly down the steps of the palace into the almost deserted square in front of it, for the citizens of Frankfort found it expedient to get early indoors when darkness fell. The young man found himself glancing furtively from right to left, starting at every shadow and scrutinising every passerby who was innocently hurrying to his own home.
This is rather a good beast," he added, scrutinising Jolly's horse, a dark brown, which was showing the whites of its eyes. "You haven't got any hunting here, I suppose?" "No; I don't know that I want to hunt. It must be awfully exciting, of course; but it's cruel, isn't it? June says so." "Cruel?" ejaculated Val. "Oh! that's all rot. Who's June?"
Less than ten minutes' sailing in the altered course brought them within fair view of the object that had caused them to deviate; and, after scrutinising it, less than ten seconds enabled them to satisfy their minds as to the strange craft and its yet stranger occupant.
"What you desire is so reasonable," called out the caliph, "that we should be ignorant as Yaboos, if we did not at once comply." The man gave one more scrutinising glance at the pretended merchants; and then, as if satisfied, descended and opened his door.
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