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The tall one looked extraordinarily severe and the short one extraordinarily glum, Mark thought, to have young men. Mabel looked from the girls to Mark and from Mark to the girls, precisely as if she were exhibiting rare specimens to her husband and her husband to her rare specimens.
My favorite walk was in the ancient quarter of the town the dear old fabulous quarter, away from the noisy actualities of life and Prince Lenoir's new palace out of eye and earshot of the dandies and the ladies in their grand best clothes at the promenades and the rattling whirl of the roulette wheel and I liked to wander in the glum old gardens under the palace wall, and imagine the Sleeping Beauty within there.
"But Gerald is talking and laughing just as usual," she said, as she stood at the window dangling her hat in her hand "more than usual, for he has been very glum all this spring. Poor fellow! I daresay Louisa worries him out of his life;" and with this easy conclusion the elder brother was dismissed by the girls.
In order to force himself to take exercise, he used to correct his proofs either at the printer's or at her house. Sometimes the weather, to the influence of which he was very susceptible, sometimes his money-tightness, or his fatigue from protracted work would cause him to arrive with lack-lustre eyes, sallow complexion, glum expression and irritable temper.
"That's nothing to be glum about." "You'd think so if you were I. It was Miss Kitty Cat. And when she left she took one of our nestlings with her." "Perhaps she only borrowed it," Rusty Wren suggested. "Maybe she'll return it to-day." "No!" Jolly Robin told him. "If she comes back again it will only be to take another one."
If it was by his will that her inexperienced darling was to face the dangers of an unknown world, with nobody but a glum old Indian to serve her, of course, there was nothing for it but submission. At daybreak the next morning, Margot stood beside her uncle's bed, clasping his thin hands in parting. His eyes were sad and anxious, but hers were bright and full of confidence.
The moods of the three men were various and characteristic: Jaggers glum and uncertain, Ikey confident, Chukkers grim. "Who's riding the Putnam horse?" asked Ikey. "Albert Edward," Jaggers replied. Chukkers removed his charm from his mouth. "I ain't afraid o' him," he said. "He's never rode this course afore. It'll size him up." "What's the price o' Four-Pound?" asked Ikey.
However that may be, we at least shall do our best to pull him through." "That's talking, Mr. Scarbridge!" exclaimed Griffith. Promptly at four that afternoon Blake was shown to the rooms of his friend at the hotel. He entered with a glum look not altogether assumed. "Well, here I am," he grumbled. "Hope you're satisfied. You're robbing me of the best part of the day."
There they all swelled into madam's drawing-room, like so many turkey cocks, as much as to say, 'and who dare say no to us? and Gregory was thinking of telling of 'em to come down here, only his heart failed him 'cause of the grand way they was dressed. So in they went, but madam looked at them as glum as death." "Well, now," said Mrs.
Any of those trackless vastnesses to the eastward might hide a battalion of men for months; therefore, in case they had run, what hope of finding them? These and other facts I put before my friends while they listened in glum silence indeed, with hardly a move except the pipes carried mechanically to their lips or down.
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