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A sharp little sound from him. Miss Kate looked up, quickly. Chet Ball was staring at the beady-eyed yellow chicken in his hand. "What's this thing?" he demanded in a strange voice. Miss Kate answered him very quietly, trying to keep her own voice easy and natural. "That's a toy chicken, cut out of wood." "What'm I doin' with it?" "You've just finished painting it."
And the voice exclaimed, "There! You're guilty or you'd never have jumped like that." Turning, Henrietta saw that a black, beady-eyed gentleman was staring at her sternly. "It takes Mr. Crow to catch 'em," he croaked. "He can tell a corn-thief half a mile away." All this time Henrietta Hen hadn't said a word. At first she was too surprised. And afterward she was too angry.
Dale awoke with a thundering curse. "Shore!" exclaimed John. "I'd say the same only I'm religious. Don't thet beady-eyed greaser's gall make you want to spit all over yourself? My Gawd! but Roy was mad! Roy's powerful fond of Miss Helen an' Bo.... Wal, then, Roy, first chance he got, braced Beasley an' give him some straight talk. Beasley was foamin' at the mouth, Roy said.
Madame de Montespan had heard something of these dread sacrificial rites to Satan; sufficient to fill her with loathing and disgust of the whitefaced, beady-eyed woman who dared to insult her by the proposal. She fumed and raged a while, and even went near to striking La Voisin, who looked on with inscrutable face and stony, almost contemptuous, indifference.
The Kitzmuller is a beady-eyed, cheery-looking ancient woman, answers questions with a rising inflection, and gives a good account of the Captain, who got into the vehicle without assistance, and was in excellent spirits.
In an even smaller fraction, his mind assimilated the picture. The woman was dark-haired, dark-eyed, and muscular. Her mouth was wide and thick-lipped beneath a large nose. The man was leaner and lighter, bony-faced and beady-eyed. The woman said: "Fritz, what " And then he shot them both with gun number two.
He talked as he watched, his lively features reflective of his impressions. "Oh, pretty! Right into their tummies! Right in the nose! La, la, la! But that's off and so's that! Tell Battery C they're fifty yards over. Oh, beady-eyed gods and shiny little fishes two smacks in the same spot! Humph! Tell Battery C that the trouble with that gun is worn rifling; that's why it's going short.
She made them taciturn, and beady-eyed, and lithe, and fleet, and every other adjectival thing her imagination and history book could supply. The fat and placid Capuchin Fathers on the hill became Jesuits, sinister, silent, powerful, with France and the Church of Rome behind them.
It was a long time before The Pilgrim's brain had again become clear enough to grasp the meaning of the questions which Morehouse put to him, but Denny did not know even as much as did the round-faced reporter himself. He only recognized the description of the shrill voiced, beady-eyed mail carrier.
Because the savage and the child who plays lonely games have one horror of being laughed at or questioned, the little folk kept their convictions to themselves; and the Colonel, who thought he knew his regiment, never guessed that each one of the six hundred quick-footed, beady-eyed rank-and-file, to attention beside their rifles, believed serenely and unshakenly that the subaltern on the left flank of the line was a demi-god twice born -tutelary deity of their land and people.
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