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His own looks had followed, with late and rueful repentance, the faded form which Hunsdon had just borne from the presence. They now reposed gloomily on the ground, but more so at least it seemed to Elizabeth with the expression of one who has received an unjust affront, than of him who is conscious of guilt.
"You will be punished for this. Oh, what a fool I was to let you enchant me! "A fool you were, and a fool you are!" laughed the Su-dic, dancing madly in his delight. And then he carelessly tipped over the other copper vessel with his heel and its contents spilled on the sands and were lost to the last drop. The Su-dic stopped short and looked at the overturned vessel with a rueful countenance.
Their converse was not happy and deeply intimate. Philosophy did not seem to catch her mind; and fine phrases encountered a rueful assent, more flattering to their grandeur than to their influence. Days went by. Richard did not present himself. Sir Austin's pitch of self-command was to await the youth without signs of impatience.
"No, senor," replied Sancho, "for as soon as I had repeated it, seeing there was no further use for it, I set about forgetting it; and if I recollect any of it, it is that about 'Scrubbing,'I mean to say 'Sovereign Lady, and the end 'Yours till death, the Knight of the Rueful Countenance; and between these two I put into it more than three hundred 'my souls' and 'my life's' and 'my eyes."
My fellows on shore looked rueful and woe-begone nature had no charms for them there was no liquor to be had! If I were to remain here long, I should send them on shore as a punishment. Friday, February 12th. This is the Mahommedan Sabbath, but they do not keep it so grimly as the Puritans.
Joyous at escape from school, and its confinement of three long, weary hours, from eight to eleven, I dropped my mother's hand, and, running a little, slid down the long entry over the thinly sanded floor, and then slipping, came down with a rueful countenance, as nature, foreseeing results, meant that a boy should descend when his legs fail him.
Major Fairbairn pondered a minute and told me, with rather a rueful countenance. "Let us go there first," I said. "It is an old story to you; but I never saw such a thing. I want to see it and understand it, if I can." "Ladies like to see it, I know," said the major. "You think, we cannot understand it?" "I don't see how you should." "I am going to try, Major Fairbairn.
AN EAGLE, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a tree in company with a Kite. "Why," said the Kite, "do I see you with such a rueful look?" "I seek," she replied, "a mate suitable for me, and am not able to find one." "Take me," returned the Kite, "I am much stronger than you are." "Why, are you able to secure the means of living by your plunder?"
And then your complexion, my dear, your adorable complexion!" she went on, with a rueful shake of her head, "you are as brown as a gipsy not that you need go breaking your heart over it for, between you and me, my dear, I think it rather improves you; the pity of it is that you have no one to appreciate you properly to render to your charms the homage they deserve, no one not a soul, my dear; your hermit, bless you! can see, or think, of nothing that exists out of a book which, between you and me and the bucket yonder, is perhaps just as well and yet heigho!
"I like to do 'most everything that's LIVING. Of course I don't like the other things very well sewing, and reading out loud, and all that. But THEY aren't LIVING." "No? What are they, then?" "Aunt Polly says they're 'learning to live," sighed Pollyanna, with a rueful smile. The doctor smiled now a little queerly. "Does she? Well, I should think she might say just that."
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