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"They say that men will always monopolize a girl if she will allow it, and that a really well-mannered one won't permit it for a moment." Peter longed to take her in his arms and lay the little downcast head against his shoulder, but he had to be content with saying: "I am so sorry they blame you. If I could only save you from it."
"Well, they've taken me," he began; "and I shall have a fairly good part." Cope made no effort to respond to the other's glowing self-satisfaction, but sat with thoughtful, downcast eyes at his desk before the untouched themes. "What's the matter?" asked Lemoyne. "Has she been calling up again?" Cope raised his head and gave him a look. Lemoyne saw that his very first guess had been correct.
Slowly came the canopy. Its four bearers sweated visibly with the effort; and the face of the bishop who bore the monstrance was pale and streaked with moisture from the countless movements he had made. Behind him came row after row of downcast faces, men and women of every Religious Order on earth, and the tapers seen in perspective appeared as four almost continuous waving lines of soft light.
Her father seemed incapable of understanding her. She could only shake her head and say, "That's nothing, nothing!" "You'll find it a great deal, my girl," he said. That afternoon when her music master came he was astonished to find her pensive and downcast instead of joyful and happy, as he expected. "There has been a lovers' quarrel," he said to himself.
"I'm thinkin', Miss Blythe," said Ezra, slowly, walking with his hands clasped behind him and his downcast eyes just resting on her face and gliding away again, "I'm thinkin' as the spectacle of them two young lives being linked the one with the other gives a sort of a lonely seeming to the old age as you and me has got to look to." "Perhaps so, Mr.
Silent, with downcast eyes, stood the generals under the flashing glance of the regent, who now turned to her husband with a mocking smile.
Ingmar Ingmarsson had arrived in the city, and was walking slowly toward the big prison house, which was beautifully situated on the crest of a hill overlooking the public park. He did not glance about him, but went with eyes downcast, dragging himself along with as much difficulty as though he were some feeble old man.
It was no other than the young woman who cut loose the tree-bound captive! While she told the story the chieftain listened with downcast face. "I passed him on my way. He is near!" she ended. Indignant at the bold impostor, the wrathful eyes of the chieftain snapped fire like red cinders in the night time. His lips were closed. At length to the woman he said: "How, you have done me a good deed."
She returned the book to the chilly front room, adjusting it to the proper angle on the center-table, as if it had been a part of a geometrical diagram, And finally, after locking the door and hanging the key where Persis, or any other arrival, would immediately notice it, she turned her downcast face toward home. "I'm afraid I hurt Mr. Dale's feelings. It beats all how sensitive some natures are.
Her intolerable suspense lasted till four o'clock in the morning; and then, in the still night, horses' feet came clattering up to the door. Lady Bassett went into the hall. It was dimly lighted by a single lamp. The great door was opened, and in clattered Moss and Drake, splashed and weary and downcast. "Well?" cried Lady Bassett, clasping her hands.
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