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His mouth was absurdly small and pursy for so broad a countenance, his nose seemed endeavoring to retreat behind his puffy cheeks as though painfully aware of its own insignificance, and he had little, sharp, ferret-like eyes of a dull mahogany brown, which were utterly destitute of even the faintest attempt at any actual expression.
In one of these places, described on the door as "a private, confidential, inquiry office," sat, on the morning following John Steele's ride in the park, a little man with ferret-like eyes at a dusty desk near a dusty window.
"Ah I've had a nice character of you from your aunt, my dear young gentleman," he proceeded, blinking his little ferret-like eyes furiously, and with a dubious sort of grin expanding his wide mouth, which was furnished with a set of teeth like a shark's.
Just well he seemed attached to him she was sure that he could help. Chauvelin was taking no further heed of her. He had said his cruel "Either or " and left her to decide. He, in his turn now, appeared to be absorbed in the sour-stirring melodies of ORPHEUS, and was beating time to the music with his sharp, ferret-like head. A discreet rap at the door roused Marguerite from her thoughts.
The little creature in her arms wore an air of deep suspicion. His pointed head turned to and fro with ferret-like movements. His sharp red eyes darted hither and thither almost apprehensively. He was like a toy on wires. "He is going p'raps to turn into a fairy prince soon," explained Tessa. "I'm not sure that he quite likes the idea though. He would rather kill a dragon. P'raps he'll do both."
A mongoose had been tethered to a stake at the beginning of the performance, and the little ferret-like enemy of the snake family kept tugging at his tether and sniffing suspiciously about whenever snakes appeared in the conjurer's manipulations.
He went to the bar, laid his card on the counter, bought a drink of absinthe, and then drawing from his pocket a little mirror, set it up on the counter and proceeded to don a false beard and hair and paint his face into wrinkles, until he closely resembled an old man seventy-one years of age. He then went into a dark corner and watched the crowd of people with sharp, ferret-like eyes.
It was his aunt, Miss Lavinia Talcott. Jim Tapp gave a great wriggle as Andy involuntarily let go his hold of the young rascal. His ferret-like eyes twinkled and followed the glance of Andy's own. Tapp was too keen a fellow not to observe that Andy was startled and unnerved by the unexpected appearance of some one on the scene.
"By all means, m'deah, let's go down between decks and have a look at them." "Of course, if you wish, Sir Charles, although Do you think we shall be edified, Mr. Gillett?" "That depends, m'lady," and the speaker, a man with official manners and ferret-like eyes, shifted from one foot to another, "on what degree, or particular class of criminal your ladyship would be interested in," he added.
Occasionally a dervish holds aloft the fantastic paraphernalia of his profession, battles his way through the surging human surf, and with his black, ferret-like eyes gleaming with unconscious ferocity through a vision of unkempt hair, thrusts his cocoa-nut alms-receiver under my nose and says, "Huk yah huk!" or "backsheesh!"
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