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I was extremely curious to know on what account my retainer had thought of writing to Pugatchéf. The Chief Secretary began in a loud voice, spelling out what follows "Two dressing gowns, one cotton, the other striped silk, six roubles." "What does that mean?" interrupted Pugatchéf, frowning. "Tell him to read further," rejoined Savéliitch, quite unmoved. The Chief Secretary continued to read
The hearts of two lonely men might shrink a little, if they had to win their way for miles and hours among a legion of silent and motionless men mere men like themselves all looking at them with fixed and frowning front. But how much more, when the legion is of Nature's mightiest works, and the frown may turn to fury in an instant!
"Homelessness! To feel that is to feel something urging you " He stopped, frowning. " urging you to take up your staff," said the priest. They were silent a moment, and then the same musical voice tolled out the words like a low bell: "But with all your journeying, my son, you will come to no Continuing City." "It's no use to say this to me. You see, I am " "I'll tell you why I say it."
"Well, I did it, and there's an end of it!" she said to herself, frowning, and striving to find some sort of grim satisfaction from this hackneyed phrase. "What nonsense it all is! I wanted to do it and I did it; and I felt so happy oh, so happy! It would have been silly not to enjoy myself when the moment came. I must not think of it; it can't be helped, now."
When all was over, the men stood gazing at each other, stern, frowning, and yet with the aspects of those who felt they had been, in a manner, disgraced by the circumstances which led them to the necessity of thus regaining the command of their own vessel. As for myself, I ran and sprang upon the taffrail, to look into the ship's wake. A painful sight met me, there!
And she saw her father first as the tall, dirty man whom she used to know, with the shiny black trousers, the untidy beard, the frowning eyes, the nails bitten to the quick, the ragged shirt-cuffs then as that veiled shape below the clothes, the lift of the sheet above the toes, the loins, the stomach, the beard neatly brushed, the closed yellow eyelids, the yellow forehead, the rats with their gleaming eyes.
She bent down and kissed him with trembling lips "Ach! you make me all wet," Jacky said, frowning at her tears on his rosy cheek. Later, as Maurice pulled his reluctant son out on to the pavement, he was so moved that he almost forgot that she was still the old Eleanor; he didn't even listen to his little boy's passionate assertion that he would be a flying-trapeze man.
I have sometimes been calmed down by the sight of my own inordinate wrath depicted on his frowning brow.
The coolie lay quite unconscious, his eyes wide open, drawing a faint, quick breath at irregular intervals. "What do you think, mate?" asked Moran in a low voice. "I think he's got it through the lungs," answered Wilbur, frowning in distress and perplexity. "Poor old Charlie!" Moran went down on a knee, and put a finger on the slim, corded wrist, yellow as old ivory.
He hesitated, and then Jeff called, "Yes, come in, Mr. Westover." The painter found him sitting on the old hair-cloth sofa, with his stick between his hands and knees, confronting his mother, who was rocking excitedly to and fro in the old hair-cloth easy-chair. "You know these folks that Jeff's so crazy about?" she demanded. "Crazy!" cried Jeff, laughing and frowning at the same time.
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