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Here and there a violinist, his violin at his shoulder, sauntered up and down the floor, alternately drawing his bow across the strings and lowering it again, while he tightened them.
He has come out of the south, three hundred kilometres away, from Beni-Hassan, a sacred village a sacred village." He repeated the last words, lowering his voice. "Of course go and see him." "And you?" He glanced towards Androvsky, who was standing with his back to them. "Won't you show Monsieur Androvsky the garden?"
Lord George had twice advised retreat, where audacity was the only way to success. IN the meantime the weeks were rolling on. The grey April of the North, if it brought little warmth, was at least lengthening the daylight, and melting the snow from the hills, and lowering the floods that had made the rivers impassable.
"As soon as ever the note was safe in his bosom he says: 'I sold you, blind mate; I'd have given fifty sooner than not done this job. Look here! says he, 'I have sworn to have a life for each of these; and, captain," said Jem, suddenly lowering his voice, "with that it seems he held up his right hand." "Well, yes! yes! eh!" "And there were two fingers a-missing on it!" "Ah!"
Hendry's always forbidding face was even more lowering than usual as his eyes turned upon the chief officer. Chard, whose head was bound up in a bloodstained handkerchief, smiled in his frank, jovial manner as he rose, lifted his cap to Tessa, and nodded pleasantly to Oliver and Harvey. "What are your orders, sir?" asked the chief mate addressing the captain.
My dear,"—leaning a little closer and lowering her voice on Ludwig's account,—"do you know that the poor fellow didn't have a patient for nearly six months? People wouldn't go near him. I hear that he has been doing better of late. I think it was Percy who said that he had operated successfully on a man who had gall stones.
"Yes," said the boy, scornful of this feeble, grown-up repetition. "Come here." The boy came doggedly forward. The man pushed back the well-worn straw hat from Clarence's forehead and looked into his lowering face. With his hand still on the boy's head he turned him round to the others, and said quietly, "Suthin of a pup, eh?" "You bet," they responded.
She was still there, motionless in the lamplight, and as he went toward her she lifted her eyes and gazed back at him in the mute defiance which is the outward expression of despair. "Do you think you have been quite just to me, Laura?" he asked, not tenderly, but with a stern and reproachful face. Without lowering her eyes she looked at him while she shook her head.
I saw them drive away with a lowering brow, and was not disarmed of my bitterness because I saw, through the half-closed blinds, that the young girl stole a swift glance at my window. Adah was pleased as she saw how I was caring for her gift; but I puzzled and disheartened her by my preoccupation and taciturnity.
The lines about his mouth where the smiles used to gather had changed and grown stern with the hopelessness of years. His lips drooped pathetically, and hard treatment had given his eyes a lowering look. His hair, that had hardly shown a white streak, was as white as Maurice Oakley's own. His erstwhile quick wits were dulled and imbruted.
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