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At the base of the somber edifice a pretty little lodge, of the Renaissance, built as an afterthought, gave entrance to an exterior staircase going up along the wall diagonally to a sort of mirador, or overhanging look-out, in exquisite taste. Graceful little statues of Faith and Justice, elegantly draped, decorated the portico.
It is difficult for us of a later day to realize the meaning of that word, transportation. Let us form some conception of what the Irish exiles suffered from the graphic picture painted in colors, somber but not untrue, by one who knew from firsthand experience the lot of the political prisoner. Writes Dr.
The man, or we should rather say gentleman for he had the appearance of one, notwithstanding the somber and peculiar dress he wore, continued to read a letter which he had just opened; and Edward, who feared himself the prisoner of a Roundhead, when he only expected to meet a keeper, was further irritated by the neglect shown toward him by the party.
It might have been a long-forsaken house, for any sign of human habitation that was to be seen about it. All was silent, solitary and gloomy. As Capitola drew up her horse to gaze upon its somber walls she wondered which was the window at which the spectral light and ghostly face had been seen. She soon believed that she had found it.
You don't know girls." "I knew one pretty well. She put a rope round my neck," he replied, grimly. "A rope!" "Yes, I mean a halter, a hangman's noose. But I balked her!" "Oh!... A good girl?" "Bad! Bad to the core of her black heart bad as I am!" he exclaimed, with fierce, low passion. Joan trembled. The man, in an instant, seemed transformed, somber as death.
There the artist wrought with his heart and head; but much of this work, I suppose, was done by machinery. It is a most noble and splendid apartment, and, tho so fine, there is not a touch of finery; it glistens and glows with even a somber magnificence, owing to the deep, rich hues and the dim light, bedimmed with rich colors by coming through the painted windows.
Just before night-fall he had crawled, in his bewildered, wheezy fashion, down to the tavern, where he found a somber crowd in the bar-room. Mr. Bodge ordered his mug of beer, and sat sipping it, glancing meditatively from time to time over the pewter rim at the mute assembly. Suddenly he broke out: "S'pose you've heerd that old Shackford's ben murdered." So the sun went down on Stillwater.
Angela's white dress is outlined on the somber colors of James' vestments; and thus the fine and supple figure of Blue Beard is accentuated.
Langham moved impatiently; her low full-throated mirth jarred on his somber mood. "Were you in court to-day, Marsh?" she inquired, after a short silence. "Yes," he answered briefly. "Were there many there?" "Yes." "Any ladies, Marsh?" she questioned, with sudden eagerness. "If you can call them that," he growled. "Do you know, Marsh, I had a strong impulse to go, too.
A young man was shaving. His feet rested upon a broad plank embedded in mud, and the tiny glass in which he saw himself hung upon a wall of raw, reeking earth. A sky, somber and leaden, arched above him, and now and then flakes of snow fell in the sodden trench, but John Scott went on placidly with his task. The face that looked back at him had been changed greatly in the last six months.
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