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It was Auntie's fault, not mine. I told her I was afraid of him." "Your aunt had been that gait with him herself, in her time?" "Oh, I don't know." "Yes, I twigged that and then the mealy-mouthed, filthy hag came over me. I on'y guessed, but you knew. Answer me;" and his grip tightened on her throat, and he shook her. "Answer." "Oh, I suppose so."
I twigged a sight on him as we run up to you, and I could a-gone on these knees, though I'm not to say one o' the prayin' kind." "But how long would the carrier be in running home?" "Forty-eight hours; p'raps fifty-six with a foul wind." "Well, that man will have a stiff leg for life as it is, and he would have died if you hadn't come across me." "Likely so, sir, but we don't have doctors here.
Dash me, if it weren't a swell turnout! horse, coachman, and all, in real slap-up style. It waited so long that I thought it had taken root there." "Come, get on! Was there any one inside?" "I should think there was! I twigged him at once, by the description you gave me.
Where's the man I'm looking for? I twigged the fellow just as you shut the door upon him." "Did you? Then you're welcome to go on looking." He strode in, muttering oaths. When the door was closed he turned upon her. "Hang me, Sally, if I know what your game is in sheltering this spark. Anyhow you wouldn't do it if you didn't see your way to some coin out of him." "I don't, so shut up your sauce."
You and New York use too much moonshine." Both men were smiling, but to Cairns, nevertheless, it seemed that his own conscience had awakened after a long sleep. This wanderer from the seas had twigged the brain brass which he had long been passing for gold value. He saw many bits of his recent work, as products of intellectual foppery.
Shake hands here, where the women can see us. You bet ... they twigged.... And they chatter so infernally.... Unfair on Miss Arden " Roy felt himself reddening. It was Lance all over that chivalrous impulse. So they shook hands publicly, to the astonishment of interested kitmutgars, who had been betting freely, and were marvelling afresh at the strange ways of Sahibs.
They then stole up stairs with beating hearts, and sat in Eric's room to wait for the other two. To their great relief they heard them enter the lavatory about ten minutes after. "Were you twigged?" asked Wildney eagerly. "No," said Graham; "precious near it though. Old Gordon and some men were after us, but at last we doubled rather neatly, and escaped them.
At the end of the street he took a deep breath, and, after a slight pause to collect his scattered energies, summed up the situation. "She's twigged it all along," he said, with conviction. "You'll have to come home with me tonight, and to-morrow the best thing you can do is to make a clean breast of it. It was a silly game, and, if you remember, I was against it from the first."
No wonder, poor girl." "Look here, Wilson, keep this dark. I'm not going to write any more poetry. I've been thinking that, ever since I sent Hilda the ode. I don't think it's quite the real article." "No," said Wilson, consolingly; "only original-spirit catching." "A lot you know about it, old man," said Grim, hotly. "Granted, Grimmy; but Hilda twigged the fraud, quick enough."
Let him enjoy himself, away there across the yellow Sahara of this silk-panelled salon. Aaron felt quite cheered up. "Well, now," he thought to himself, "this man is in entire command of a very important branch of the British Service in Italy. We are a great race still." But Lady Franks must have twigged. Her playing went rather stiff.
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