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Then his hot thirst for light brushed all other considerations aside, and he said almost pleadingly: "Can't you tell me all about it?" "Oh, everybody knows," said Johan, and his eyes began to wander shiftily as they always did when he found himself cornered. "You don't know yourself," Keith taunted him, suddenly grown wise beyond his ordinary measure. "Yes, I do," insisted Johan.
"Oh, well, I thought I knew ye," he answers, not the least disconcerted. "How do you do? and how's your folks? All well, I hope. I took this 'ere paper, you see, to help a poor furriner, who couldn't make himself understood any more than a wild goose. I thought I 'd just start him for'ard a little. It seemed a marcy to do it." Well and shiftily answered, thou ragged Proteus.
I'm big enough and strong enough to work, now, and I heard you wanted a man. I came to see if you wouldn't hire me." Colonel Witham's face was a study. Taken all by surprise, he seemed to know scarcely what to say. He shifted uneasily and the drops of perspiration rolled from his forehead. He mopped his face with a big, red handkerchief, and looked shiftily from one boyish face to the other.
"This man means to kill me," mumbled Ross. He looked round shiftily, and said, "I mean no harm by the girl." "You're a liar!" cried Philip. With a glance of deep malignity, Ross closed with Philip again. It was now a struggle of right with wrong as well as nerve with strength. The sun had set under the sea, the sally bushes were shivering in the twilight, a flight of rooks were screaming overhead.
"Of course, I knew you were in or around Boston somewhere, but to run slap up against you here, when there seemed to be nothing in it for me but to be bored stiff " He stopped short, finding it difficult to be shiftily insincere with as old a friend as Evan Blount. But in the nature of things it was baldly impossible to tell Blount that the meeting was not accidental.
I shall never forget that scene in the forest the gray arch of the heavens swimming in mist through which the sun peered shiftily, the tall pines wavering through the fog, the preoccupied mules marching single file, the foggy bell-note of the gentle dingue in its swinging basket, and Dorothy, limp kilts dripping with dew, plodding through the white dusk.
But he now, without warning anybody, privately revoked said word of honor; and Collini and he, next morning, whisked shiftily into a hackney-coach, and were on the edge of being clear off.
'Your honour knows, the man answered cautiously. 'No, I don't. 'Then you will be the only one in Oxford that does not, the fellow replied, eyeing him oddly. 'Maybe, Soane answered with impatience. 'Take it so, and answer the question, 'It is Masterson, that was the porter at Pembroke. 'Ah! And how did he die? 'That is asking, the man answered, looking shiftily about.
The answer was a long time coming. The face was bloodlessly grey. From it a pair of close-set, shallow brown eyes looked shiftily. A tongue ran back and forth between the colourless lips. "It's my leg," he said. "I don't know if it's broke. And I'm sort of bunged up." He looked up sharply. "Oh, I'll be all right," he grunted, "and don't you fool yourself." "Did Brodie ?"
Natalie did not take her scornful eyes from his face, and Boris at last looked shiftily away. As he apparently did not intend to speak again, she put to him another question: "Who is the woman," she asked, "you have here with you?" "That is no business of yours," snarled Boris, "though you can, if you wish to speak to or allude to her, call her Madame Estelle, as I introduced her to you."
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