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'There was never any harm in Ole, she said once. 'People needn't have troubled themselves. He just liked to come over and sit on the drawside and forget about his bad luck. I liked to have him. Any company's welcome when you're off with cattle all the time. 'But wasn't he always glum? I asked. 'People said he never talked at all. 'Sure he talked, in Norwegian.
I asked sharply, thinking it ill omen to hear a flunkey of the English Company speaking lightly of our leader. But at the question the fellow went glum with a tipping and bowing and begging of pardon.
It was a pleasant sight, in the midst of the golden bloom, to see this salt old Gruff and Glum, waving his shovel hat at Bella, while his thin white hair flowed free, as if she had once more launched him into blue water again.
"It'll only stir things up," he said grimly. "But they are stirred up. The thing is to quiet them. To make her feel that this is just our lives, and has nothing to do with yours or hers. You can do it, Father, I know you can." "You know a great deal, then," was Soames' glum answer. "If you will, Jon and I will wait a year two years if you like."
Albrecht, who was making money, retained his coarse good-nature unruffled by the hardships of travel; but the majority of the stage people grew morose and fretful, the eminent comedian, glum and unapproachable as a bear; the leading gentleman swearing savagely over every unusual worry, and acting the boor generally; the ingénue, snappy and cat-like.
Carey was about to retire to her seat when the King exclaimed, "Lady Muriel, if it's all the same, I'll get you to change seats with Mrs. Carey. Am I not your sovereign?" he inquired, noticing the glum looks of the outraged maid of honor. All through the rest of the meal Mrs. Carey and the King whispered together. "I have taken a great liberty," said she at last. "And what is that?
I can't ever quite get used to that, you know, though I sail around there with all the airs of the leading lady. Sometimes I see a twinkle in Fred Obermuller's eye when I catch him watching me, and goodness knows he's been glum enough of late, but it wasn't Yes, I'm going to tell you, but it's rattled me a bit, Maggie. I'm so so sorry, and a little oh, just a little, little bit glad!
Tully came and said to my mother, 'I know you ain't done nothin' nor your child neither, but I'll have to hit you a few light licks to satisfy ma. "Blount come the next day and went down to where pa was making shoes. He said, 'Daniel, you're looking mighty glum. "Pa said, 'You'd be lookin' glum too if your wife and chile had done been beat up for nothin'. "When he said that, Blount got mad.
The squire looked rather glum, Macky remarked to Mrs. Betts; and if she had been in his shoes wild horses should not have drawn her into company with that proud Lady Latimer. The golden harvest was all gone from the fields, and there was a change of hue upon the woods yellow and red and russet mingled with their deep green.
But his keen disappointment was plainly evident. He said but little during his stay at the boarding-house and went home early, glum and disconsolate. At the Parker domicile he found Kenelm and his sister in a heated argument. "I don't care, Hannah," vowed Kenelm. "I'm a-goin' to that Fair, no matter if I do have to go alone.