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His, sombre, melancholy, humble, had a great appeal in them. She seemed encased in some steel armour, which made movement and speech wellnigh impossible. She thanked him inaudibly. He shut the door, said "Home" to the coachman, and turned away. The carriage drove off. Then something in Marion snapped.
Slow, far-reaching, it poisoned the elegiac beauty of the scene, alienated the night, and gave to the fading country-side a yet more ancient look, sombre and implacable. He was still pondering this, when across their winding foot-path, with a quick thud of hoofs, swept a pair of equestrian silhouettes.
You must feign that in this place there are two gates, one of ivory, whence there issue the false dreams, and one of horn, whence the true dreams come; the true shall be more distinct in colour, more luminous, and better executed, and the false shall be confused, sombre, and imperfect.
I came to see you about Eleanor Watson's story the one that is so like 'The Lost Hope' in the November 'Quiver." "Indeed!" The young man's face grew suddenly sombre again. "Won't you have a seat?" He led the way back to his desk, placing a chair for Betty beside his own. "Let us make a fair start," he said, as he took his seat. "You mean the story that was copied from 'The Quiver, I suppose."
He looks older than he is, as dark men often do. His voice is deep and good, his face and figure are good, his manner is a little sombre. His room is a little sombre, and may have had its influence in forming his manner. It is mostly in shadow.
But her eyes were not dimmed, and into their sombre depths there leaped a sudden fire only a momentary flash, for almost instantly she closed her lids, and when she opened them a moment later, they exhibited no trace of emotion. "You will tell me where it is?" he repeated. A request came awkwardly to his lips; he was accustomed to command.
Suppose at the price of a lie from lips that had never lied yet it could be evaded? The Mother's face contracted with a spasm of mental pain. A dull flush mounted to her temples, and died out in olive paleness; her lips folded closely, and her black brows frowned over the sombre grey fires burning in their hollow caves. She rebuked a sinner at that moment, and the culprit was herself.
"Is it late?" he said abstractedly. "And you such an early riser," said Granny Grimshaw. She went across to the fire and began to rake it out, he watching her in silence, still with that sombre look in his dark eyes. Very suddenly Granny Grimshaw turned and, poker in hand, confronted him.
The steep and shadowy Gay Street, which leads up to the inviting Crescent and the more sombre Queen's Square, affects one curiously. Then we come to the old Assembly Rooms close by the Circus, between Alfred Street and Bennell Street a stately, dignified pile in the good old classical style of Bath.
Her hand shook as she cut the pages, and a mist of tears clouded her vision as she attempted to read his poem. It was a piece of sombre brilliance. Like black-draped monks half crazed with mystic devotion, the poet's thoughts flitted across the page. It was the wail of a soul that feels reason slipping from it and beholds madness rise over its life like a great pale moon.
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