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But the queen of jealousy and the murderer stand between them and separate them. The dog means faithfulness, the cat slyness. The queen of melancholy stands beside the dog. Take care of yourself, for some woman, who is angered, wishes to kill you." Lorand looked with such a pitying glance at Czipra that she could not help reading the young man's thoughts. She too replied tacitly.
After a continued study of her Cecilia's growing jealousy betrayed itself in a conscious rivalry of race, coming to the admission that Englishwomen cannot fling themselves about on the floor without agonizing the graces: possibly, too, they cannot look singularly without risks in the direction of slyness and brazen archness; or talk animatedly without dipping in slang.
Molly!" was all Sara said, as she laughed in spite of herself; but she felt she could trust the child who, with all her faults, had not a grain of slyness or deception in her nature. The party came off, "according to contract," as Molly observed, and for a few days kept the child in a flutter of delight.
"It would have pleased me," said Mrs. Hanway-Harley mournfully, "had Mr. Gwynn been present. His absence is peculiarly a blow." "I'm sure," said Richard, putting on a look of innocent slyness, like a lamb engaged in intrigue, "had I known that you might feel Mr. Gwynn's going away, I would have kept him with us." Mrs. Hanway-Harley elevated her polite brows. Richard would have kept Mr.
Profoundly simple in his modes of feeling, he was yet dominated by the habits of slyness and trickery which seem to be inherent in the truly savage breast. He had the savage's love of secrecy and instinctive suspicion of his fellow-creatures, the savage's swift passions and vindictiveness, the savage's innate difficulty in comprehending the laws of honour and morality.
But on this occasion, Major Bagstock, even amidst these many occupations, found time to be social; and his sociality consisted in excessive slyness for the behoof of Mr Carker, and the betrayal of Mr Dombey's state of mind. 'Dombey, said the Major, 'you don't eat; what's the matter? 'Thank you, returned the gentleman, 'I am doing very well; I have no great appetite today.
His understanding and opinions all please me; he wants nothing but a little more liveliness, and that, if he marry prudently, his wife may teach him. I thought him very sly; he hardly ever mentioned your name. But slyness seems the fashion.
"You must excuse me if I say I think you do the lady's talents great injustice. Not that I have any personal knowledge of the matter, however: and if I were to repeat the current reports, Miss Elliott would call them gossip and repudiate them, and me too, perhaps. She has the reputation of having the `wisdom of the serpent; the slyness of the cat, I think."
"You can be if you try." "Not with a big Chicago brewer for a father and a husband that beats you whenever the mood takes him." "I admit that's hard. I think the atmosphere of that Heron Lake hotel isn't any great help to you." "Oh, they're a gay lot there! We fight like cats and dogs." A look of slyness and boldness came over her face. "Mrs. Shellberg hates me as hard as I do her.
To all she said his only reply was that he wanted "bally." "You want bally?" returned Elsie, with a puzzled look. "Yis bally," he repeated, and a gleam of indescribable slyness broke like a sunbeam on his solemn visage as he said it. "What can he mean by bally, Cora?" "Perhaps he means barley." "Ho!" exclaimed the Indian, with emphasis, by which he meant, "You're right."
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