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Of course I had no idea what all this portended, but I was very shortly to learn. "While he was still looking at me, but stealing side-glances at a doorway before which was draped a most wonderful curtain of a sort of flamingo colour, this curtain was suddenly pulled aside, and a girl came in.
You'd have laughed fit to split " "Nicholas Burke, you must stop talkin' like that, or I'll send you home," reproved Mrs. Burke, looking severely at her son, and with deprecating side-glances at his audience. "Excuse me, ma. It will be all over in a minute. But really, you'd have laughed like sin I mean you'd have just laughed yourself sick. Tooley was awful nervous when the basket went up.
What this intelligence was I could not tell, nor indeed, should I have taken notice of the indications of its existence, had it not been for what occurred afterwards. I observed them now and then whispering to one another; as they did so casting side-glances towards Brace and myself.
Arizona did not answer. Kern stepped to one side and glanced at the face of his captive. It was strangely altered. The mouth had become trembling, loose, uncertain. The head had fallen, and the bright, keen eyes were dull. The man looked up with darting side-glances. The sheriff stood back and wiped a sudden perspiration from his forehead.
At supper I surprised her in certain side-glances, which warned me that she was going to try to dupe me; I felt myself safe as far as love was concerned, but I had reason to dread fortune, always the friend of those who keep a bank at faro, especially as I had already lost.
And at such times Dag Daughtry, below on the for'ard deck, feigning unawareness as he went about his work, would steal side-glances up at the bridge where the captain and his passengers stared down on him, and his breast would swell pridefully, because he knew that the captain was saying: "See him! that's Dag Daughtry, the human tank.
"And he asked me to go over to his 'ouse to smoke a pipe with 'im on Tuesday," he added, in the casual manner in which men allude to their aristocratic connections. "He's a bit lonely, all by himself." Miss Nugent said, "Indeed," and then, lapsing into silence, gave little occasional side-glances at Mr.
He managed some appraising side-glances at her as she bent over her machine. She seemed to believe he had already gone. Then he did go. No good talking that way to a girl. If it had been a man, now "You tell Mr. Baird that Mr. Gill's got to see him as soon as possible about something important," he directed from the open door. The young woman raised her serious eyes to his and nodded.
Why, something told me all along that you would get it." His wife came in, apparently from the kitchen. She returned my "Good evening" with free and easy amiability, without any shyness or side-glances, and disappeared again. I felt annoyed. I was tempted to call after her to come back and let me take a good look at her
"How long have you known Miss Drummond?" she began. "Well, all my life, in a fashion," I said; "but it is nearly ten years since we met." "Ten years is a good deal of your life, is it not?" said Cecilia, darting at me one of those side-glances from her tawny eyes. I tried to do it last night, and made my eyes feel so queer that I was not sure they would get right by morning.
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