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Who knows what might not have happened if she had made sheep's-eyes at me, Mr. Francis!" "Very true, sir, very true," returned Mr. Francis, who had no sense of humor. "She's about the sweetest thing I ever saw," went on the captain. The two men laughed. "I hope to goodness he'll be the only one," said Mr. Francis.
He proved the same man who had behaved with so shame-faced an air on the windlass. "Ah, it is you, my man," exclaimed Captain Delano "well, no more sheep's-eyes now; look straight forward and keep the ship so. Good hand, I trust? And want to get into the harbor, don't you?" The man assented with an inward chuckle, grasping the tiller-head firmly.
"What Helena needs is a jolt!" said Madison to himself. "I guess her trouble is one of those everlasting feminine kinks that all women since Adam's wife have patted themselves on the back over, because they think it's a dark veil of mystery that is beyond the acumen of brute man to understand. That's what the novelists write pages about wade right in up to the armpits in it feminine psychology great! And the women smile commiseratingly at the novelist the idea of a man even pretending to understand them kind of a blooming merry-go-round and everybody happy! Feminine psychology! I guess a little masculine kick-up is about the right dope! What the deuce have I been standing for it for? I don't have to I don't have to go around making sheep's-eyes at her what? She wants grabbing up and being rushed right off her feet
Em'ry Keenan ain't a pattern o' perfection, but I be toler'ble well acquainted with the cut o' his foolishness, an' I know his daddy an' mammy, an' both sets o' gran'daddies an' gran'mammies, an' I could tell ye exac'ly which one the critter got his nose an' his mouth from, an' them lean sheep's-eyes o' his'n, an' nigh every tone o' his voice.
So down the hill in the frosty moonlight them few kem purty nigh beat out, I reckon, Mill'cent war, what with the sermonizin' an' the hyme-singin' an' hevin' ter look continual at the sheep's-eyes o' Em'ry Keenan he wears my patience ter the bone! So she concluded ter take the short-cut. An' Em'ry he agreed.
These three changes of manner she effected all in less than two seconds. Poor Compton went away sorely puzzled by this female kaleidoscope, but not a little alarmed and concerned at having mortally offended so much feminine dignity. After that he did not venture to accost her for some time, but he cast a few sheep's-eyes at her in church.
Just let him hang round, and throw sheep's-eyes, till he's as soft as a jellyfish, and when he's right down ripe, roaring mad, go off and pretend to do a mash with some one else. That's the way to glue him, chicken." "But you don't have anything of him that way," objected Laura. Maria laughed herself red in the face. "What'n earth more d'you want?
"I could see it in the king's eyes he meant to keep the boy." "The lady in the case is the king's sister, I suppose " said the captain, "that tall slip of a girl who was always making such sheep's-eyes at Jack. Gad! I don't wonder he preferred a bower in Eden with her to the steerage of a man-of-war and a pack of young devils incarnate!
Among the oriental Christians it is said that the children of Seth tried to regain Paradise by living in great austerity on Mount Hermon, but they soon tired of their laborious days and cheerless nights, and cast sheep's-eyes on the daughters of Cain, who beauty was equal to their father's wickedness. Marriages followed, and the Devil triumphed again.
Mercedes Dios! and all because you have succeeded in turning the heads of a few country bumpkins that hang about the place casting sheep's-eyes at you. Ha, ha, ha!" she laughed derisively. "Believe me, when Capitan Forest makes up his mind to marry, he will not stoop so low to pick up so little." "Doña Fernandez!" said Chiquita sharply rising from the bench with an ominous look in her eyes.
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