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They just call a man an Ace when he is a real graduate flyer, and gets the habit of bringing down his Boche when he goes after him." Every conversation around that part of the world seemed to have a grim flavor. The Brighton boys were getting nearer to actual war every minute, they felt. The boys found a row of S.P.A.D. machines not far distant.
The Mont proved by its appearance its history in adventure; it had the grim, grave, battered look that comes only to features, whether of rock or of more plastic human mould that have been carved by the rough handling of experience.
Each grim twelve-inch gun had a saddle strapped round the muzzle, on which one sat, thrilled and ecstatic, while the great guns rose slowly to extreme elevation and descended again to mundane levels.
There is something in the juxtaposition of these two enemies full of tragic irony. It is grim to think of bearded men and bitter women taking hateful counsel together about the two hall-fires at night, when the sea boomed against the foundations and the wild winter wind was loose over the battlements. And in the study we may reconstruct for ourselves some pale figure of what life then was.
"Fool!" cried this grim fellow, "think ye I would harm Beltane that is my most loved lord henceforth? I am Ulf, called the Strong, and, as this my hateful body is strong, so is my love lie there!" So saying, Ulf laid Roger upon his back, and coming to Beltane, fell upon his face before him and caught his mailed feet and kissed them.
You should not let your mother go off alone." The young girl laughed in merry surprise. "Why, Jennie, you forgot that Mamma has been used all her life to going out without me; it is only within the last few months that I have been her companion." "I know," replied her visitor, leaning back with a grim expression of disapproval, "and I think it the queerest arrangement I ever heard of.
She answered his look with one of mocking scorn, and then turned her attention to the Chief, who was sitting in grim silence, the customary hand of welcome ominously withheld. A haughty look came over Grôm's face, his broad shoulders squared themselves, and he met the Chief's eyes sternly. "I have done the bidding of Bawr the Chief," he said, in a clear voice, so that all the tribe might hear.
And he said to himself, with a grim twist of the mouth, that if the house had grown ugly and commonplace, that only made it a better setting for the ugly and commonplace thing which he was about to do.
Strange neighbors these, the grim, savage mother wolf of the mountains, hiding her young in dens of the rocks, and the wary, magnificent wanderer of the broad caribou barrens; but they understood each other, and neither wolf nor caribou had any fear or hostile intent one for the other.
So, still standing, he answered the Duke boldly, yet quietly, his new kinsman watching him with a grim curiosity. "Monsieur le prince," said Philip, "I am used to poverty, that matters little; but whatever you intend towards me and I am persuaded it is to my great honour and happiness I am, and must still remain, an officer of the English navy."
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