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Alexis saw that the surface of the water was thickly coated with something; and, on scrutinising it more closely, he made out this something to be a swarm of insects. There appeared to be more than one species of them two indeed there were both about the size of ordinary gadflies; but altogether different from each other in colour and habits.
On the other hand, with every fraction of a second that passed he was conscious of becoming more and more desirous of humbling the man standing before him and scrutinising him so insolently; moreover, he felt intuitively that the eyes of the Girl were on him as well as on the other principal to this silent but no less ominous conflict going on, and such being the case it was obviously impossible for him to withdraw from the position he had taken.
'Has he come about his wife? Jolyon was thinking; and Soames, 'How shall I begin? while Val, brought to break the ice, stood negligently scrutinising this 'bearded pard' from under his dark, thick eyelashes. "This is Val Dartie," said Soames, "my sister's son. He's just going up to Oxford. I thought I'd like him to know your boy." "Ah! I'm sorry Jolly's away. What college?"
For another moment Mere-Grand continued scrutinising Guillaume; then she once more reverted to her sewing. If she exercised such sway over the home and all its inmates, it was by reason of her long devotion, her intelligence, and the kindliness with which she ruled.
"And as you probably guess, I have an idea that some such arrangement might be somewhere on the wings of the wind on its way to me, before long." He laughed again, but I did not, and noting my silence he turned upon me a more scrutinising look than he had yet given me, and said: "My dear fellow, is something the matter? You look quite haggard. You haven't been ill?" "No, I've had a bad night.
If the philosopher in reviewing events confessed that he was scrutinising them in order to abstract from them whatever tended to illustrate his own ideals, as he might look over a crowd to find his friends, the operation would become a perfectly legitimate one.
Coggan, after absently scrutinising a coal which had fallen among the ashes, took up the narrative, with a private twirl of his eye: "Well, now, you'd hardly believe it, but that man husbands alive, after a while. Understand? 'a didn't want to be fickle, but he couldn't help it. The poor feller were faithful and true enough to her in his wish, but his heart would rove, do what he would.
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?"
Ye'll hae a good lock on your door, nae doot?" "Aye, I have a good lock, as ye shall see," cried the farmer, caution swamped in brandy and good fellowship. "What think ye o' that for a lock?" "Uhm m!" murmured Dicky reflectively, carefully scrutinising lock and key and he was not unskilled in locks. "Aye, a good lock; a very good lock. Yes, yes! Just what you want; the very thing.
Such is the substance of the sermon: and as to the main drift of it, it was this; that I was, there and elsewhere, scrutinising the course of the Church as a whole, as if philosophically, as an historical phenomenon, and observing the laws on which it was conducted.
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