My mother was sitting by the firefire, but poorly in health , and very low in spirits , lookinglookat it through her tearstear, and despondingdespondheavily about herself and the fatherless little stranger , who was already welcomedwelcomeby some grosses of prophetic pins , in a drawer upstairs , to a world not at all excited on the subject of his arrivalarrival; my mother , I say , was sitting by the firefire, that bright , windy March afternoon , very timid and sad , and very doubtful of ever coming alive out of the trial that was before her , when , liftinglifther eyes as she drieddrythem , to the window opposite , she sawseea strange lady comingcomeup the garden .
Miss Betsey , lookinglookround the room , slowly and inquiringly , beganbeginon the other side , and carriedcarryher eyes on , like a Saracen ’s Head in a Dutch clock , until they reachedreachmy mother .
He stood lookinglookat her with a kind of desperate irresolution .
I openopenthe window , and , lookinglookout , can scarcely seeseethrough the rainrainthe grocer 's shop opposite , where a crowd of drunken Irishmen are puffingpuffLynchburg tobacco in their pipes .
As I stand here , idly tappingtapthe windowpane , and lookinglookout through the rainrainat the dirty back-yard and the coalboats below , fragments of an old story floatfloatup before me , -- a story of this house into which I happened to comecometo-day .
here they both are , ’ criedcrymy mother , lookinglookround upon us without retarding the motionmotionof her nimble fingers and glittering needles .
After darkly lookinglookat his leg and me several times , he camecomecloser to my tombstone , tooktakeme by both arms , and tiltedtiltme back as far as he could hold me ; so that his eyes lookedlookmost powerfully down into mine , and mine lookedlookmost helplessly up into his .
There was no necessity whatever for her lookinglookin the glass .
I hardly know whether it was the analogies or the differences that were uppermost in the mind of a young American , who , two or three years ago , sat in the garden of the “ Trois Couronnes , ” lookinglookabout him , rather idly , at some of the graceful objects I have mentionedmention.
In front of Winterbourne he pausedpause, lookinglookat him with a pair of bright , penetrating little eyes .
I rememberrememberhim lookinglookround the cover and whistlingwhistleto himself as he did so , and then breakingbreakout in that old sea-song that he sang so often afterwards : " Fifteen men on the dead man 's chest -- Yo-ho-ho , and a bottle of rum ! "
“ You are burnt beyond recognition , ” he addedadd, lookinglookat his wife as one looks at a valuable piece of personal property which has suffered some damage .
" Harry , " saidsayBasil Hallward , lookinglookhim straight in the face , " every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist , not of the sitter .