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It seemed to the careworn girl that a lifetime followed before the door opened noiselessly, and there entered a slender little old Indian woman, in beaded leggings, moccasins, "short skirt," and a blue "broadcloth" folded about her shoulders.
She was living in lodgings near a school which her boys attended. She looked careworn. Her relations had been kind to her, but not warmly affectionate. She had been disappointed with the welcome they had given her. They seemed changed to her, more formal, narrower, colder. She longed to be back in India; to be with her husband once more. But he was engrossed with his work.
Her contracted face seemed to have accumulated the wrinkles of the most drawn-out, careworn life. Yet she was not old; and these were not the lines of care; for her years had been singularly uneventful and for her happy. The markings were, perhaps, inherited from the generations of her weather-beaten, toiling, plain ancestors with the added creases of her own personal habits.
But the carriage and horses were coming down, all the same, to Eglosilyan, to take her back again. "Harry," she was saying at this moment, "the longer I look at you, the more positive I am that you are ill. I don't like your color: you are thin and careworn and anxious. What is the matter with you?" "Going to school again at twenty-one is hard work, grandmother," he said. "Don't you try it.
"I don't know," said the boy drearily. "I want to do something before I am stopped;" and he hurried away, looking older and more careworn than ever, to go at once to the officers' quarters, intending to see Captain Murray; but the first person he met was the doctor, who caught him by the arm, and almost dragged him into his room.
The countenance of Hawkeye was haggard and careworn, and his air dejected, as though he felt the deepest degradation at having fallen into the power of his enemies. He was without his favorite weapon, and his arms were even bound behind him with thongs, made of the skin of a deer.
"An unconditional certificate of safety?" asked Marguerite, whilst a deep frown of grave puzzlement appeared between her brows. "What does that mean? "It means that he is free to come and go as he likes; that neither he nor I have anything to fear from Heron and his awful spies. Oh! but for that sad and careworn look on Armand's face we could be so happy; but he is so unlike himself.
And the mask fell from the regent's face, leaving it bitter and careworn. "Our presence is known in Dreiberg; it has been known for three days at least. And in coming up here I had another errand. Oh, I haven't forgotten it. In the street there are at least ten soldiers under the sub-chief of the police; rather a curious conjunction." The king turned white. So it had come at last!
During all Jeff's illness Captain Millet was unremitting in his attentions, insomuch that a certain careworn expression began to take up its settled abode on his countenance. But this was not altogether owing to sympathy with his friend, it was partly the consequence of his financial affairs.
A moment later she was joined by Martha West. "Fanny, dear Fanny," said Martha, "won't you tell me what is changing you so completely?" "There is nothing changing me," said Fanny in some alarm. "What do you mean, Martha?" "Oh, but you look so changed! You are not a bit what you used to be so jolly, so bright, so so very pretty. Now you have a careworn, anxious expression.
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