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In daily life, who is the really formidable woman to encounter? the black-browed, broad-shouldered giantess, with arms almost as big in the girth as a man's? or the pert, smart, trim little female, with no more biceps than a ladybird, and of just about equal strength with a sparrow?
These had for generations been grave mental workers: ministers, lawyers, professors in theological seminaries; narrow-minded, strong-minded; upright, unbending; black-browed, black-coated; with a passion always for dealing in justice and dealing out justice, human or heavenly; most of all, gratified when in theological seminaries, when they could assert themselves as inerrant interpreters of the Most High.
She was looking very handsome herself, in her own grim, black-browed style. The new black velvet dress, with its train and V-neck, which she had made purposely for the party, became her stately, massive figure. She wore coiled around her neck the rich heavy necklace of amber beads which was a family heirloom. Her walk in the frosty air had stung her cheeks into a glowing scarlet.
So, in the glorious parable, behold How, bowed to mortal bonds, of old Life's dreary path divine Alcides trod: The hydra and the lion were his prey, And to restore the friend he loved to-day, He went undaunted to the black-browed god; And all the torments and the labors sore Wroth Juno sent the meek majestic one, With patient spirit and unquailing, bore, Until the course was run
When, all full of impatience and hot haste to solace himself with his new possession, he rushes down to seize the vineyard, he finds there, standing at the gate, waiting for him black-browed, motionless, grim, an incarnate conscience the prophet whom he had not seen for years, the prophet that he had last seen on Carmel, bearding alone the servants of Baal, and executing on them the solemn judgment of death; and there leaps at once to his lip, 'Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?
There was the deck steward leading the way; a very smart French maid carrying a wonderful collection of wraps, cushions and books; a black-browed, pallid man-servant, holding a hot water bottle in his hand, and leading a tiny Pekinese spaniel, wrapped in a sealskin coat; and finally Madame la Duchesse.
Her loud surprise conveyed the image of Helbeck as it lay graven in the minds of the Browhead circle, a sort of triple-crowned, black-browed tyrant, with all the wiles and torments of Rome in his pocket. A wife resist defy? The Church knows how to deal with naughtiness of that kind. Laura laughed. "We can but try.
"And doesn't she interest you a little, Peter?". "Not in the least," said I. "And, pray, why not?" "Because I care very little for either peaches or plums." "Or black-browed goddesses, Peter?" "Not if she is big and strapping, and possesses a temper."
I was absent once I returned and found her sleeping tranquilly yes! on the breast of a black-browed street-singer from Venice a handsome lad enough and brave as a young lion. He saw me and sprung at my throat I held him down and knelt upon his chest she woke and gazed upon us, too terrified to speak or scream she only shivered and made a little moaning sound like that of a spoiled baby.
"In some small measure do I so." "I am glad of that," said the King; "for so I may make thee acquainted with Sieur de la Montaigne." He turned as he ended speaking, and beckoned to a heavy, thick-set, black-browed chevalier who stood with the other gentlemen attendants at a little distance. He came instantly forward in answer to the summons, and the King introduced the two to one another.
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