At night my room is like the shaft of a coal mine, and it makes Billy Jackson look like the big diamond pin that Night fastens her kimono with."
For Billy Jackson was shining down on her, calm and bright and constant through the skylight.
Sillerton Jackson carried between his narrow hollow temples, and under his soft thatch of silver hair, a register of most of the scandals and mysteries that had smouldered under the unruffled surface of New York society within the last fifty years.
Sillerton Jackson handed back Lawrence Lefferts's opera-glass.
I rose up, and there was
Jackson's Island, about two mile and a half down stream, heavy timbered and standing up out of the middle of the river, big and dark and solid, like a steamboat without any lights.
"So we don't waste any time," Jackson said, addressing himself to Saxon.
An' the first thing I know, Jackson, here, asks me for a match."
We could hear
Jackson, who had gone out to drive away our Malay seamen from the doorway of the companion; he swore menacingly in the patter of a heavy shower, and there was a great commotion on deck.
'I wonder whether Fogg's disengaged now?' said
Jackson.
Davis, with another glance at the truculent
Jackson, wavered.
But I tremble for you when I think of all you are to prove by
Jackson's arm."
One General
Jackson had "removed the deposits," as I afterwards learned, though I never could understand exactly what that meant; but, it suddenly made money scarce, more especially with those who had none; and every body that was "extended" began to quake in their shoes.