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Updated: May 19, 2025
'This one. Mr Holt pointed to the window on the ground floor, the one which was screened by a blind. 'There was no sign of a blind when I first saw it, and the sash was up, it was that which caught my eye. Once more Sydney surveyed the place, in comprehensive fashion, from roof to basement, then he scrutinisingly regarded Mr Holt. 'You are quite sure this is the house?
Leslie gave one hasty look round the room and then lowered his glance, fixing it upon the floor, being unable to withstand the battery of so many eyes, all of which were fixed scrutinisingly upon himself. "Boys," said the doctor, "I introduce to you a new companion, who, being a stranger, I hope you will treat with all kindness and courtesy.
I thought that I was dreaming, and I suppose that my eyes betrayed the horror which I felt, for the stranger looked at me scrutinisingly for a moment or two, then he gave the quaintest laugh I had ever heard in all my life, and said something to his friend in English, which this time I failed to understand.
"Quite a good deal, I am afraid. The prescription I would offer, fair lady, is called by a very plebeian name: Work!" "Work?" Chauvelin looked at Marguerite long and scrutinisingly. It seemed as if those keen, pale eyes of his were reading every one of her thoughts.
"Dear Dad!" she said, softly, and she put her soft arms about him and kissed his cheek "How are you this morning? Did you sleep well?" He took her arms from his shoulders, and held her for a moment, looking at her scrutinisingly from under his shaggy brows. "I did not sleep at all," he answered her "I lay broad awake, thinking of you.
"Oh, I can't leave England!" said Cynthia, with a sudden little gasp. "Don't ask me, father; I can't possibly go away." He looked at her keenly and scrutinisingly for a moment, and then he said "That means that you've got a reason for wanting to stop in England. That means that you've got a sweetheart a lover, my pretty and that you won't leave him. I know the ways of women well enough.
Your face reminds me -Are you any relative?" She gave the usual answer "No." "Strange!" He bent his eyes scrutinisingly upon her. "I remember I thought the same thing when I first met you and HIS features are not easily forgotten! You have his eyes and mouth, you might almost be his daughter!" Her breath quickened "I wish I were!" she said. He still looked puzzled.
He looked at Hugh for an instant or two, gravely and scrutinisingly, then bowed politely. Hugh, who was half sitting up in bed, bowed too, but without speaking. He remembered Jeanne's charges to be very polite to the raven, and thought it better to take no liberties with him, but to wait patiently till he heard what Monsieur Dudu had to say.
Hoopdriver, instead of sitting down, went up to the table and stood against it, with his finger-tips upon the cloth. They were keeping breakfast a tremendous time. He took up his rolled serviette looked closely and scrutinisingly at the ring, then put his hand under the fold of the napkin and examined the texture, and put the thing down again.
The offices and dignities they give themselves won't make them one whit greater or more important in His eyes." "You are a democrat, I see," said the beautiful woman, looking gravely and scrutinisingly at the eager flushed face, with its ruffled damp curls, and quick restless eyes. "Well," said Mrs Jefferson, "I don't exactly know what I am. My views are liberal on most subjects.
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