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She rattled this off with the air of a woman who had the reputation of saying everything that came into her head, and with a strong French accent. Newman had spoken with cheerful seriousness, but Madame de Bellegarde's tone made him go on, after a meditative pause, with a certain light grimness of jocularity. "No, I lost money on wash-tubs, but I came out pretty square on leather."
There were intricate traceries on his forearms in red and blue ink; beneath the open collar of his shirt the girl gained a glimpse of other tattooing. There was a faint scar traced along his right jaw, almost from ear to chin, which added a certain grimness to his expression. Yet his was not at all a sinister face.
Once only did he pause to look away was it into the past or into futurity? with a steady, self-forgetful gaze which seemed to make a man of him again. Then he went on with his task with the grimness of one who takes his last step into ignominy. We will follow his words as he writes, leaving them for the others to read on their completion.
Once, however, his features assumed a look of grimness as, fixing his eyes upon his vis-a-vis, the boys, he tapped sternly upon the table.
"Look at him shut his old eyes and stretch his neck! Ain't it the sweetest " The man in the chair lifted himself in sudden grimness, sat up from between the barber's massaging hands, which still held their pose like some sort of brace, turned a threatening look into the road.
"And this, I suppose, will mould men's thoughts too: it will keep out all danger of superstition." Mr. Francis turned on him abruptly. "What do you think of the Pope's new Religious Order, sir?" Oliver's face took on it a tinge of grimness. "I think it is the worst step he ever took for himself, I mean.
Cannot we go where there will be less risk of interruption? You have a study, I suppose?" "Yes, sir," said the Doctor with terrible grimness, "I have a study and I have a cane. I can convince you of both facts, if you wish it. If you insult me again by this brazen buffoonery, I will! Be off to your dormitory, sir, before you provoke me to punish you. Not another word! Go!"
"There," said George on a note of grim satisfaction, "that's done!" The grimness lasted, but the satisfaction did not. Or only until the return of the office boy, half an hour later, with the identical envelope and a three-line typewritten note from Miss Eliot. She was sorry to say, she wrote, that she did not consider it advisable to undertake the agency for the property in question.
"And of course they'll inspire responses, and with that consequence don't you see? they'll mitigate her solitude, they'll even enliven it," Nash set forth. "She'll probably box a good many ears: that'll be lively!" Peter returned with some grimness. "Oh magnificent! it will be a merry life. Yet with its tragic passages, its distracted or its pathetic hours," Gabriel insisted.
"I think you'll find I'm not hard to get along with." "I think you'll find I am," replied the other with some grimness. "But I know the game. Well, let's get down to cases. What do you want to do with the 'Clarion'?" "Make it the cleanest, decentest newspaper in the city." "Then you don't think it's that, now." "No. I know it isn't." "Did you get that from Dr. Surtaine?" "Partly."
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