Pyotr gave the mother a shrewd wink, and again reassured her:

"Somebody will have to pay me a very beautiful price for it," he said, with a shrewd wink.

"Well, Doctor," said he, with a shrewd wink in his face, "are you looking for one of your patients?

"Now we must surround them as in a mouse-trap, and leave them no outlet for escape," said Major Teimer, with a shrewd wink.