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Promptly next morning at the designated hour, came the little note promised me by Mr. Gryce. It was put in my hand with many sly winks by the landlady herself, who developed at this crisis quite an adaptation for, if not absolute love of intrigue and mystery.
It was Banquo who unmasked the truth. His mind was less preoccupied with the sufferings of the "poor young thing," and no doubt had been taking observations. The result of these he proceeded to communicate to Macbeth by a series of nudges and winks which, in the close proximity of the moment, I felt rather than saw.
"How many beaver-skins?" asks the Englishman, setting down his candle. The Frenchman smiles. "Twenty thousand beaver skins and as many more of other sorts!" The Englishman sits down to pencil out how much that will total at ten shillings each; and Pierre Radisson winks at us. "The winnings again," says he. "Twenty thousand pounds!" cries our host, springing up.
The gorgeous old mendicant took them all grimly and leering, and then pounced upon the Northern man, assured by their twinkles and winks that the rest expected some sport. "And now, Right Honorable from the banks of the Susquehanna, Colonel Reybold you see, I got your name; I ben a layin' for you! come down handsome for the Uncle and ornament of this capital and country. What's yore's?"
Sarvant, marm and gentlemen, you'll agree that story is worth five shillings. Howsomedever, I never charges my friends, but gives them all free gratis and for nothing." And old Jerry gave one of his most knowing winks as he finished off his glass and took up his hat to prepare for his departure.
Well, I looks up to him and winks, a Clockmaker, says I; well he smiled, and says he, I see; as much as to say I had'nt ought to have axed that are question at all, I guess, for every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business. Then, says he, you know all about this country, who do folks say has the best of the dispute.
The coaxing tone in which he said these latter words might have failed in its object, if he had not accompanied them with sundry sharp jerks of his thumb over one shoulder, and with divers winks and thrustings of his tongue into his cheek, from which signals the damsel gathered that he sought to speak to her apart, concerning Miss Haredale and Dolly.
And when Mat had been asked what he thought of it the story went that he had answered: "I winks at ut," adding, with a twinkle: "I winks at a lot got to now." Ma Woodburn kept the class going for twenty years, until, indeed, her daughter was old enough to take it over from her. Her Daughter Boy Woodburn had been born to the apparently incongruous couple some years after their marriage.
When I remembered the deliberate and impertinent moralizing of Thackeray, the clumsy exegesis of George Eliot, the knowing nods and winks of Charles Reade, the stage-carpentering and limelighting of Dickens, even the fine and important analysis of Hawthorne, it was with a joyful astonishment that I realized the great art of Tourguenief.
It was something of an achievement to have compelled Storch's faith in so slight a thing as a literal honesty. But Storch didn't take the couch. He threw his coat aside and crept into his wretched pile of quilts on the floor, as he said: "You may want to snatch forty winks or so before the night is over."
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