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She had no longer a thought for the twofold offer presented to her by her guardian, the inspiration of these sublime moments erased from her recollection the gloomy-faced youth and the grotesque old man, both of whom wanted to make her their wife. Where is he now the unknown, the unnameable, the unforgettable ideal?
"Yes, August, and as he's to be a farmer, we'll add another, 'Wiser wits and better manners to the Knave of Spades." UP the dark stairs that led to his poor home strode a gloomy-faced young man with despair in his heart and these words on his lips: "I will struggle and suffer no longer; my last hope has failed, and life, become a burden, I will rid myself of at once."
On the screened veranda of a somewhat sooty and dismal building high up near the summit of the town, another and I were pacing anxiously back and forth when, well on in the morning, an abrupt and rather gloomy-faced American dashed into the building and one of the rooms thereof, snapping over his shoulder as he disappeared, "One of you!" The other had precedence.
Had I seen the dagger descending upon my breast I could not have made an effort to avert it. I suppose a bird when it is under the influence of a snake feels very much as I did in the presence of this gloomy-faced stranger. My mind was clear enough, but my body was as torpid as though I were still asleep.
"Scarcely that, Monsieur, but a comrade; for three years I have been with his party, and was chosen by him for this mission." Cassion laughed, chucking the gloomy-faced Chevet in the side, as though he would give point to a good joke. "And little the trip hither has profited either master or man, I warrant. La Barre does not sell New France to every adventurer.
After a moment of hesitation Barbara leaned forward to examine the silver buttons. "It it doesn't seem possible," she faltered. "What sort of a a day?" And then, with smooth, serious face upturned, she listened to Miss Sarah's tale her own story of how she had dressed a gloomy-faced boy in half-century-old finery and sent him townward for eggs.
At the corner of the Moroseyka, opposite a large house with closed shutters and bearing a bootmaker's signboard, stood a score of thin, worn-out, gloomy-faced bootmakers, wearing overalls and long tattered coats. "He should pay folks off properly," a thin workingman, with frowning brows and a straggly beard, was saying. "But he's sucked our blood and now he thinks he's quit of us.
Eleanor, seeing nothing for it unless she were to be left alone on her stair, which would have been the last thing to be endured, got up and followed slowly, to be met at the big door leading to the side porch by the company of gloomy-faced boys. "Well boys," said Mary cheerfully, "I'm glad you've come to help Eleanor and me."
Always Neale had been haunted by this final scene of his evil life in the construction camps. A somber and spectral shape, intangible, gloomy-faced, often, attended him in the shadow. He justified his deed, for Durade would have killed Allison Lee. But that fact did not prevent the haunting shape, the stir in the dark air, the nameless step upon Neale's trail.
"I don't know her," I said, "but I've seen her; a charming looking woman, about forty-five, with a gloomy-faced husband a fellow who might be rather a Tartar to live with. They were pointed out to me at Monte Carlo one year, in the Casino, where the Duchess seemed to be enjoying herself hugely, though the Duke had the air of being dragged in against his will."
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