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He couldn't have been as surprised as I was, at that. We went to the bar and had a drink, and then I ast him what'd he, have on me, and all the time I was sizing him up. I'm telling you, he looked like he'd grown up in Sherry's." The rest of the conversation, it appeared from Mr. Wickert's spirited sketch, had consisted mainly in eager queries from himself, and good-humored replies by the other.
"It's the little chaps, after all, who have the pluck!" But pluck alone would not have succeeded in shutting Durham out in that inning. Science was necessary, and science Curly had. He had not forgotten the old knack of "sizing up" the batsman. He found, in fact, that he had forgotten nothing. Durham made the supreme effort of the contest in that first half of the ninth inning.
But nobody's cleverer to hide his nature than a lover, and Warner found himself burrowing into Nelly's life a bit and sizing up her character, though full of caution not to commit himself; and she was very near as clever as him, and got to weigh up his points, good and bad, and to feel along with such a man that life might be pleasant enough for a nature like hers.
"I say, what's the meaning of this?" he demanded. "Just a little personal affair, sir," replied Frank, stepping forward. "Davis here and I are going to settle a difference." "Hm-m-m," muttered Lord Hastings, sizing the two up critically. "And you think you can thrash him, eh?" "I think so, sir." "Well, I don't," was the reply. "I have a notion to forbid it." "Don't, sir," pleaded Frank.
Toddles blinked helplessly. "Getting right down to a cash fare," continued Donkin, after a moment, as Toddles did not speak, "they're not so far wrong, either, about you sizing up pretty small for the train crews or the roundhouse, are they?" "No-o," admitted Toddles reluctantly; "but "
He knew nothing of military affairs before, but he got the hang of this rough-and-tumble fighting as if he had been born for it. He never fired a shot; he carried no arms; the only weapons he used were his brains. And they were the best conceivable. I never met a staff officer who was so quick at getting a point or at sizing up a situation.
When Lund relieved him, the day's work giving Lund, Hansen, and Rainey each two regular watches of four hours, though Lund put in most of the night as the ice grew more difficult to navigate, Rainey occasionally saw the giant's eyes sizing him up with a sardonic twinkle.
"Aft o' that, no sheer at all; a straight line till you come to the rump, or, as we'll say, for argyment's sake, the counter an' then a plumb drop, plumb as a quay-punt." "Where did you pick up all this?" asked Cai. "I don't make any secret about it," 'Bias owned. "Mrs Bosenna taught me. Though, when you come to think it out, 'tis as straightforward as sizing up a vessel.
Yet he plainly resented the idea that any of his clerks could have been guilty of co-operation with the criminals who had committed the robbery that morning, and his dark features wore a grim and sullen expression when he took the block of paper and repaired to his main office. Nick Carter sat and waited, silently sizing up the case as he then saw it.
This was the result of the "sizing up," as it formulated itself in what might be called a "first draft," in Temple's mind: "He's a smooth, plausible, conscienceless scoundrel; "He's so far filled with self-conceit that it sometimes blinds him;
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