watch like a hawk

So I just patted him kind-like on the shoulder and sat down.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

I seized the opportunity to watch what I supposed would be a most interesting interview, from behind a curtain.

May looked along at the dimpled grace, And then at the saint-like, fair old face, “How funny!”

He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!

All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.