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Misers will visit you at times, and beautiful ladies in mourning deep as their distress; and from your desk you will catch a glimpse of the sombre pageantry of litigious man.
One day he asked for a taste of cheese "just enough to make a mouse's dinner," was his expression. "Mice are like me, they love the dark and a quiet life and books; and like me they live on crumbs." This pose of the wise man fallen on evil days made a bad impression, and the old lady became silent and sombre as before. When springtime came Monsieur Tudesco vanished.
He stuttered and stammered, and quickly went away; not, however, before he had promised to come and dine as usual on the next Sunday, and not without observing that the anniversary of that fatal day of release had done something to lighten the sombre load of mourning which the widow had hitherto worn. Yes; he would dine there on the Sunday, but how would it be with him then? Mr.
"I'm sure that he goes to the witches' sabbath. Once he left a broom on my leads." "Oh! what a displeasing hunchback's face!" "Oh! what an ill-favored soul!" "Whew!" The men, on the contrary, were delighted and applauded. Quasimodo, the object of the tumult, still stood on the threshold of the chapel, sombre and grave, and allowed them to admire him.
Like a silver thread the river wound its sinuous way between its steep banks, and faded from view amidst its setting of dark firs and jack-pines; around rose the mountains, their great sides either bathed in the glow of evening, or lying sombre and grim, telling of crouching valleys and funnel-like draws from which the light of day had retreated.
And looking up in sombre hostility at the little head bent over her hand and at the dark line of eyelashes on the the flushed face, she thought swiftly, "She's the one." "You see, mother," said Mr. Twist, pulling a chair vigorously and sitting on it with determination, "it's like this. Start on anything you see in this show that hits your fancy. Mr. Twist was stopped again by his mother's face.
The edifice, in its round arches and massive pillars, the simplicity of which referred their date to what has been called the Saxon architecture, presented at all times a dark and sombre appearance, and had been frequently used as the cemetery of the family of the feudal lords, as well as formerly of the monastic brethren.
"Yes," she replied, with sombre fury. "How very strange!" ejaculated Adrian. "Why?" "Because I have seen a finger, a woman's long finger with a gold ring on it, that might have come off your hand. I suppose the pork-butcher picked it up for a keepsake." "May be, Heer Adrian, but where is it now?" "Oh! it is, or was, in a bottle of spirits tied by a thread to the cork."
Then he began to mutter between his teeth his private opinion as to faithless persons in general, and faithless Villum, alias the Slogger, in particular, whose character he painted to himself in extremely sombre colours. After that, a heavy thunder-shower having fallen and drenched him, he walked recklessly and violently through every puddle in his path.
The air of the place was damp and musty. The white mould could be seen gleaming on the walls, as if it wished to give a little colour to the sombre surroundings.
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