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Under his breath he said, looking heavenward: "God be merciful to me, a sinner." Then he stood up erectly, went through the gate and over the grass to the motionless little figure with its face buried in its arms. "Joey boy," he said huskily. "Joey boy." Joey sprang to his feet with tears still glistening in his eyes. He saw before him a bent, grey-headed man looking at him lovingly and wistfully.
She swept from the room, small, proud, forceful; while John threw himself upon a chair and buried his head in his hands. Dixie Gray Eagle was trotting briskly along the road over which another hand had guided him so often, the Oakwood carriage-way. On his back sat Friedrich, erectly vigorous, singing for the trees' benefit, "Oh, I wees' I was in Deexie, Look away, look away!
Never did she bear herself more erectly; never were her hand and her horse's mouth on nicer terms of acquaintanceship; never, even to please her master, had she so given her whole soul to the single business of managing her horse and herself perfectly well. She knew, as little as she cared, that a number of persons besides her friends were standing to look at her.
Soon afterwards, from little crooked black chimneys that pointed downwards over the roofs of the wagons, thick black smoke told that the fires were already started. The youngsters came back; those with the full water pails marching erectly with legs well apart; the ones with bundles of firewood strapped to their shoulders leaning forward on knotted sticks so as not to fall under the heavy burden.
Her dressing, a little severe, perhaps she liked tailored suits with crisp linen waists and blue serge with no more than a touch of color was otherwise faultless in choice and order; and, it might be that she was wholly wise: Fanny was thin and, for a woman, tall, with square erectly held shoulders.
She always went by way of the swamp; it was a lovely place a boggy soil, green with the greenest of mossy hillocks; a silvery brook meandered through it and spruces stood erectly, their boughs a-trail with gray-green mosses, their roots overgrown with all sorts of woodland lovelinesses. Nevertheless, Anne found life in Valley Road a little monotonous. To be sure, there was one diverting incident.
The usual aspect of his countenance was thoughtful and even severe, but in conversation his face lighted up with a remarkably attractive smile. He carried himself erectly and with dignity, so that in spite of his small figure, when he entered a room "it was apparent, from the respectful attention of the company, that he was a distinguished person."
Hobart saw at a glance how it was. The whole manner of her husband had changed. His state of depression was gone, and he exhibited an unnatural exhilaration of spirits. She needed not the sickening odor of his breath to tell the fatal secret that he had been unable to control himself. It was worse at night. He came home so much beside himself that he could with difficulty walk erectly.
On a still afternoon, over three weeks before that happy day, a slender old man walked erectly along the country road. He carried a cane over his shoulder, and, slung upon it, a small black leather bag, bearing the words, painted in careful letters, "Clocks repaired by N. Oldfield."
When, therefore, the figure of a man caught her vagrant attention, she started and cast a hasty look towards me. "Pray!" Neither arrogance, on the one hand, nor humility, upon the other, had any part in modelling my deportment. I came not to deprecate anger, or exult over distress. I answered, therefore, distinctly, firmly, and erectly,
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