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The dog rose, again growled deeply, and came to lay his great, intelligent looking head on the counterpane, still obstinately casting a sidelong glance at the window; the sisters bent over him to pat his broad forehead, in the centre of which was a remarkable bump, the certain sign of extreme purity of race.
You'd think a criminal would be taught anything but aimlessness; it was aimlessness that got him here in the first place, nine times out of ten. "Why, take what goes on in the printing office that you were assigned to, for instance," he went on, with a sidelong grin at me. "You have a month to get out the paper, four to six pages large quarto. How long would it take to do that stunt in New York?"
That's different altogether from us." He gave a sidelong glance at Brydon, and saw a troubled look. "Yes," Brydon said, "he is different; and so is she." "She is a lady," Pierre said, with slow emphasis. "She couldn't hide it if she tried. She plays the piano, and looks all silk in calico. Made for this?" he waved his hand towards the Bridge House. "No, no! made for "
He looked down at his toes for a moment with the corners of his mouth tucked in. "The hand dodge wasn't bad, you know," he said, with a queer sidelong smile. Lewisham was very busy for a moment trying to get this remark in focus. "I don't see it in the same light as you do," he explained at last. "Can't get away from your moral bias, eh? Well, well. We'll go into all that.
If the young ladies in the Thirion camp did not show their impatience with the same frankness, their sidelong glances were none the less directed on Ginevra. "She hasn't noticed it!" said Mademoiselle Roguin. At this instant Ginevra abandoned the meditative attitude in which she had been contemplating her canvas, and turned her head toward the group of aristocrats.
"Are the Lumleys all right? Are they still there, at the Forks?" she asked, after the little paroxysm of coughing. "Cleaned out all scattered. We own the Lumleys' place now," replied Black Andy, with another sidelong glance at his father, who, as he put some more wood on the fire and opened the damper of the stove wider, grimly watched and listened.
Again her sidelong glance swept the lines of Jim Anthony's massive jaw. She laughed softly. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Nothing. I'm just happy." She blushed and wondered if he had read her thoughts by some subtle power of clairvoyance. She was speculating on the effects of love at first sight on such a man.
The sidelong glances which Bippo and Pedros cast at the Aryks as they moved up the bank, brought a smile to the whites who witnessed them. The poor fellows were ready to let go and drop down dead the moment they felt the puncture of the whizzing javelins. The Professor was at the head of the strange procession bearing the boat on their shoulders.
But when Lord Coombe came for a brief visit he took Dowie to walk alone with him upon the moor. When they set out together she found herself involuntarily stealing furtive sidelong glances at him. There was that in his face which drew her eyes in spite of her. It was a look so intense and new that once she caught her breath, trembling. It was then that he turned to look at her and began to talk.
'Ah! commented Zinaida, and she gave me a sidelong look, 'What a memory he has! Well? I'm quite ready now ... And stooping to me, she imprinted on my forehead a pure, tranquil kiss. I only looked at her, while she turned away, and saying, 'Follow me, my page, went into the lodge. I followed her all in amazement.
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