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The character of the one was crystal clear, and deeper than it appeared the character of the other was murky and mysterious, and shallower than it seemed. This must have been a season of great anxiety and sadness for the Queen. The guns of Alma and Sebastopol echoed solemnly among her beloved mountains.
At first, as they went, Maurice pointed out things that he thought would interest her, and spoke as if he attached importance to them. While, in reality, nothing mattered, now that she was beside him. And gradually, he, too, lapsed into silence, walking by her side across the square, and through the narrow streets, with the solemnly festive feelings of a child on Sunday.
"And I tell you, Mr. Hibbert, that he isn't the boy at all," retorted Colquitt, with even greater positiveness. More was said, but the two passed out of hearing. "Greg," declared Tom Reade solemnly, "it appears that you're the million-dollar kid!" "I know it," grinned young Holmes. "I am! Also it seems equally certain that I am not!" "What do you make of the whole business, fellows?"
Soberly and solemnly men of all parties and of both races in South Africa are joining together to revive and to develop the prosperity of their own country.
Not a word concerning the meeting passed their lips; but when on the following morning each one of them retired to a secluded chamber or sat down in a corner of his room, his arms folded around his knees, speechless, motionless; when he refused to partake of the food which his wife or daughter presented to him, when he persisted in this attitude quietly and solemnly, it could not fail to attract attention.
The judge made room for Carrie beside himself, and after looking blankly at her for a few minutes, said solemnly, "I thought I heard you say you wanted ferns; but I must have been mistaken, or possibly they haven't come up in the glen this year. Some tea here, Alice. Miss Goldthwaite, may I help you to a piece of cake?"
Dumps sat on the top of a hummock, about quarter of a mile from the ship, with an expression of subdued melancholy on his countenance, and thinking, evidently, about nothing at all. Poker sat in front of him gazing earnestly and solemnly right into his eyes with a look that said, as plain as if he had spoken, "What a tremendously stupid old fellow you are, to be sure!"
One of the oldest rangers there, and one notoriously shy with women, made me the object of a general laugh. He raised his glass solemnly and said: "Well, here's wishin' you joy, but I jest want to say this: ef you'd a played yo' cyards a little bit different, you wouldn't 'a had to take White Mountain." Before the dinner was over a call came from the public camp ground for aid.
But, as a woman with a vague discomfort dimly fears cancer, so he dimly feared that there might be something fundamentally unsound in this sound education of his. And he had remorse for all the shirking that he had been guilty of during all his years at school. He shook his head solemnly at the immense and nearly universal shirking that continually went on.
Of course you may," I answered, smiling as cheerfully as I could. "Was it necessary to ask permission?" She took a chair and I seated myself in the one from which I had just risen. For a moment she was silent. I ventured a remark. "This begins very solemnly," I said. "Is the talk to be so very serious?" She was serious enough and my apprehensions returned. "I don't know," she answered.
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