When anybody entered the room, she uttered a shshshsh so sibilant and ominous, that it frightened the poor old lady in her bed, from which she could not look without seeing Mrs. Bute's beady eyes eagerly fixed on her, as the latter sate steadfast in the arm-chair by the bedside. 
The poor old lady could not look up from her bed without seeing Mrs. Bute's beady eyes eagerly fixed on her. 