with downcast eyes to M. Capoul 's impassioned wooingwoo, and affected a guileless incomprehension of his designs whenever , by wordwordor glanceglance, he persuasively indicatedindicatethe ground floor window of the neat brick villa projecting obliquely from the right wing .
It was early yet ; we had just breakfastedbreakfast; and leaving wordwordthat we ’d be back before night , we gotgetaway quietly , not wishing to be thought too gullible if we failed , and secretly hoping to have some nice little discovery all to ourselves .
The big fellow , who was known among his mates as Black Michael , triedtryhis leg gingerly , and , findingfindthat it bore his weight , turnedturnto Clayton with a wordwordof gruff thanks .