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So it would be best, since you think so lowly of me, that you should take this path to the left while I keep on upon this one; for it is clear that I can be no fit companion for you." So saying, with downcast lids and a dignity which was somewhat marred by her bedraggled skirt, she swept off down the muddy track, leaving Alleyne standing staring ruefully after her.

"My father," retorted Marius, with downcast eyes and a severe air, "was a humble and heroic man, who served the Republic and France gloriously, who was great in the greatest history that men have ever made, who lived in the bivouac for a quarter of a century, beneath grape-shot and bullets, in snow and mud by day, beneath rain at night, who captured two flags, who received twenty wounds, who died forgotten and abandoned, and who never committed but one mistake, which was to love too fondly two ingrates, his country and myself."

"I haven't come to stay," she faltered. "They told me the child was ill, and I couldn't help coming." Still he did not speak to her. As he looked, his face grew awful. The dew of fear broke out on her forehead. "Don't you know me, Pete?" she said in a helpless way. Still he stood looking down at her, fixedly, almost threateningly. "I am Katherine," she said, with a downcast look.

"An what is the matter with my poor body, may it please you, kind sir?" she asked demurely, and stood with downcast eyes, like a scolded child. "It is wrong to deck the body," began Hilarius, softening at her attitude, "because, because " Again the merry laugh rang out. How old art thou?" She held up her small finger admonishingly. "Seventeen," replied Hilarius, surprised into reply.

And thus they remained with downcast eyes, not daring to look one another in the face. When the swing stopped, the girl slipped off the seat and ran away as if she were answering a call. Theodore was left alone. He felt the blood surging in his veins. It seemed to him that his strength was redoubled. But he could not grasp what had happened.

The child that can see fairies in wood and water and stone shall see so very soon the Ineffable Seven and the downcast immortals in the eyes of friends and strangers. The order of the narrow-templed men is not to be criticised in itself. In fact it must be accomplished before the fresh complications and the resulting larger dimensions of faculty may be entered upon.

There was not much comfort in all this, but the simple fellow could not send anything more cheerful; and I think it used to feed the little maiden's heart to hear from him, even in this downcast mood, for his love for her was a dear certainty, and his absence and wild life did not dim it. My informant does not know how long this painful life went on, nor does it matter much.

Derrick coloured and lit another cigarette. Again, he felt as if he were obliged to open his heart to this sorrowful, sympathetic woman. "That is so," he said, gravely. "You have no father or mother," she murmured, her eyes downcast; "then it must be the girl you love a sweetheart?" Derrick nodded.

There were a number of shabby flags and banners preceded by a hundred able-bodied men dressed in dirty-white surplices, rather dirtier than the colour of their faces. A crowd of ragged choristers followed swinging incense-pots, droning an unintelligible chant, and fighting with each other. Then came a troop of monks and scholars with bare heads and downcast eyes.

"It is the most unlikely thing in the world that her story should be true." "It is you who have been the thief, then?" The question was uttered in tones of withering contempt. The criminal, standing before his judge with downcast face and nervously-twitching fingers, found not a word to reply. "Answer me," said Richard Luttrell, imperatively.