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"Why, Africa's a continent!" said the startled youth. "Jes so," said his father; "but wot I'm asking you is: wot country is it in?" "Asia," said the reckless one, with a side-glance at Muriel. "And why couldn't you say so before?" demanded Mr. Porter, sternly. "Now, you go to the sink and give yourself a thorough good wash. And mind you come straight home from school. There's work to be done."
He reached for the ever-ready Pathan knife, and Ismail, with both eyes on the dancing, neither heard nor saw. The Pathan leaned past King to stab, but paused in the instant that his knife licked clear. From a swift side-glance at King's face be changed to full stare, his scowl slowly giving place to a grin as he recognized him. "Allah!"
Then, as she settled back in her chair, her swift side-glance swept Tisdale. It was incredible he had removed so much dust in that brief interval, but plainly, somewhere in that miserable station, he had found water and towels; he had not seemed more fit that morning in the observation car.
There was the servant of the family on the first floor, whose side-glance troubled him as he met her on the staircase; and his heart sank every time he turned the handle of the door of a shop in the Rue Bonaparte, where an insidious clerk always forced him to choose ox-colored kid gloves, which he detested. It must not be forgotten that Amedee was very young, and was in love with love.
Not to put too fine a point on it, it is necessary that you should marry her within the hour." Tony, at this, for all his spirit, felt the blood run thin in his veins. He looked in silence at the threatening visages between himself and the door, stole a side-glance at the high barred windows of the apartment, and then turned to Polixena, who had fallen sobbing at her father's feet.
I hastened to him. "'A beautiful pheasant! cried I. 'A fine cock! "'Yes, yes. Who were you talking to, M. Louet? "'To a peasant, who asked me some question, to which I replied, that unfortunately I did not understand Italian. "'Hum! said Beaumanoir, with a suspicious side-glance at me. Then, having loaded his gun, 'We will change places, if you please, said he.
"I'm not joking, Smith," said the other, quietly. Mr. Smith pondered and, stealing a side-glance at him, stood scraping his foot along the floor. "There ain't nothing much to tell," he grumbled, "and, mind, the worst favour you could do to the cap'n would be to put it about how he was done. He's gone for a little trip instead of 'is son, that's all."
"A good, round price if French is not mistaken," replied Saverhill. The two men passed on. Howard and Marian looked guiltily about, then slipped away in the opposite direction. He helped her into the waiting hansom. As they were driven homeward she cast a stealthy side-glance at him. "Yes," she thought, "the portrait is a portrait of his face; and his face is a portrait of himself."
As we stood, waiting for the eventful moment, I heard someone behind call out: "Hi! look at your nose." I could not turn round to see what was the matter, and whose nose it was that was to be looked at. I stole a side-glance at George's nose! It was all right at all events, there was nothing wrong with it that could be altered.
But he looked at her in silence, forgetting everything for a while except that he was really alone with her, almost for the first time in his life. He changed his position and bent forward with his elbows on his knees and his hands together, so that he was nearer to her. Without turning her face from the fire she saw him in a side-glance, but made no answering motion.
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