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Later on, when my father took me to the steel-works, and I beheld with awe a huge pot filled with molten metal that ran out of it like water, I asked him if I leaped into that stream, could God save me? He was shocked. Miracles, he told me, didn't happen any more. "When did they stop?" I demanded. "About two thousand years ago, my son," he replied gravely.
In the ages of faith, an ass dressed in sacerdotal robes was gravely conducted to the cathedral choir at a certain season, and mass was said before him, and hymns chanted discordantly.
Houghton's tea, she suddenly spoke: "I know you know?" When Mary Houghton said, gravely, yes, she "knew," Eleanor said, "Oh, Mrs. Houghton, Maurice and I are nearer to each other than we ever were before!" "That's as it should be. And as I knew it would be, too. You've done a noble thing, Eleanor." "No! No! Don't say that! It was nothing. Because I love him so. And he never cared for that woman.
Had I made myself much younger, he might have ridiculed or assailed me; but now he stood surprised and embarrassed for a few moments, then resumed his queer march; and at last, beginning to perceive the jest, coughed, laughed, coughed again, and in a high, sharp key asked, "In what year were you borned?" Instantly I struck a mental balance, and answered, as gravely as I could, "In 1788."
And Young Denny, waiting there in the thickening dusk before his own dark place, smiled gravely back at that single blinking light in the window of the cottage squatting under the hill he smiled with whimsical gentleness, a man's smile that softened somehow the hard lines of jaw and lip.
And Julien, holding the inspection, nodded gravely to their comments, searching car after car with his eyes as he walked up the garage, until they rested on the head and the hair of the girl he knew; then he paused, three cars from her, and watched the head as it hung motionless, level with the lamp she had just turned into a mirror. And within the field of her vision he had just appeared.
"Do you think it is as bad as that?" "I fear so," he said gravely. "If I were you I'd get out and keep well away from that machine." "Why?" she asked nervously, stepping to the grass beside him. "It might blow up." They backed away rather hastily, side by side. After a while they backed farther away, hand in hand.
The English accounts gravely add, that the evening sun stood still, while the Lord Deputy rode six miles, from the place of the first engagement to that of the second. This was the last campaign of Sir Stephen Scrope; he died soon after by the pestilence which swept over the island, sparing neither rich nor poor.
"The Foundling," replied I. "Then you have no friends or relations." "If I have, I do not know where to find them," replied I, very gravely. "Pooh! don't be grave upon it. I hav'n't any either. I was brought up by the parish, in the workhouse. I was found at the door of a gentleman's house, who sent me to the overseers I was about a year old then.
She was still kneeling, and Cucurullo was standing beside her, hat in hand. It was now so dark in the body of the Basilica that Stradella could not possibly see any one there, especially as he was dazzled by the many candles that illuminated the upper end of the church. Gambardella bowed gravely and bent down to speak near Ortensia's ear.
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