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The unhappy priest, smitten by the archbishop, was pale and haggard. Grief, stamped on every feature, distorted the face that was once so mildly gay. Illness had dimmed his eyes, formerly brightened by the pleasures of good living and devoid of serious ideas, with a veil which simulated thought.
Other poems of the year 1795 were 'The Partition of the Earth', wherein Zeus takes pity on the portionless poet by giving him a perpetual entree to the celestial court; the mildly humorous 'Deeds of the Philosopher', a bit of persiflage on the art of proving what everybody knows, and also several pieces in the elegiac form.
He appeared to be confounded, and listened in silence to the explanation of Mr. Gilfleur. But he looked decidedly ugly. "That case is my personal, private property," said he, as soon as it was in the hands of the chief officer of the boarding-party. "I don't dispute it, Captain Sawlock; but at the same time I intend to examine its contents," replied Mr. Birdwing mildly, but firmly.
Her mother and sister came with her for good-byes to the old porch with its peeling dark paint and woody rose-vines. "Pa said at noon that you had 'phoned you wanted to come say good-bye," said her mother mildly. "I hope you'll always be happy, Martie, and remember that we did our best for you.
Papa had paid for the best, and he was going to have the best " "That was Papa!" laughed his daughters. "That was Papa!" his widow smiled and sighed. "Well. The first thing I knew, there was the proprietor, you may imagine! Papa says, 'Will you kindly tell me why I have to bring my wife, a delicate, refined Southern woman " "And he said beautiful, too, Ma!" Mrs. Lancaster laughed mildly.
Adela mildly questioned, after informing her that she missed family prayer by her late descent. Mrs. Chump assured her that she was a firm Protestant, and liked to see faces at the breakfast-table.
He had lately married a German Princess, but there were as yet no children by the marriage. The Duke of Sussex had mildly literary tastes and collected books. He had married Lady Augusta Murray, by whom he had two children, but the marriage, under the Royal Marriages Act, was declared void.
In the midst of this, other members, seated, wrote studiously; others mildly read newspapers; others lounged, half-standing against their desks, unlighted cigars in their mouths, laughing; all the while the patient Speaker tapped with his gavel on a small square of marble.
His thoughts were interrupted by the door opening and the face of Max Mainz grinning in at him. Joe was mildly surprised at his orderly not knocking before opening the door. Max evidently had a lot to learn. The little man blurted, "Come on, Joe. Let's go out on the town!" "Joe?" Joe Mauser raised himself to one elbow and stared at the other.
In the garb of an Anglican there being nothing, at first blush, necessarily Italian, necessarily un-English, in his face he would have struck you, I think, as a pleasant, shrewd old parson of the scholarly earnest type, mildly donnish, with a fondness for gentle mirth.
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