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"The what? the who? woman!" said Deans, with a sternness far beyond his usual gravity, as soon as these offensive words had struck upon the tympanum of his ear. "Eh, guide us!" said the poor woman; "I had forgot what an ill will ye had aye at the Paip, and sae had my puir gudeman, Stephen Butler.
Fair ladies and love-matches, however decorously chastened, suit ill with the sternness of the mortal conflict between the soul and sin."
Or does it take a woman's heart to understand a woman's letter? Did I read it badly? May I read it over again?" A look of real annoyance gathered upon Garth's face. He spoke with quiet sternness, a frown bending his straight black brows. "You read it quite well," he said, "but you do not do well to discuss it. I must feel able to dictate my letters to my secretary, without having to explain them."
The vicar showed more warmth of temper than the accident seemed to demand, much to Stephen's uneasiness and rather to his surprise. He had not supposed so much latent sternness could co-exist with Mr. Swancourt's frankness and good-nature. 'You shall not be disappointed, said the vicar at length. 'It is almost too long a distance for you to walk.
The countess gazed on her son with sorrowful sternness. His eyes had taken that bright glazed look which is an indication of frozen brain and turbulent heart madness that sane men enamoured can be struck by. She knew there was no appeal to it. A very dull continuous sound, like that of an angry swarm, or more like a rapid mufed thrumming of wires, was heard.
"Alfaretta!" cried Madam Sturtevant, "what does this mean?" Something of the girl's panic had seized her, also, though she tried to hide her own agitation by sternness. "My suz, Alfy Brown! What ails ye? You nigh knocked me down, slammin' the door right in my face, that way!" exclaimed Susanna, who had, fortunately, stepped within before this strange thing had happened.
I will not hear such things said of him, even by you!" she cried, the hot blood dyeing her face and neck, and the soft eyes filling with indignant tears. He put his finger upon her lips. "My daughter forgets to whom she is speaking," he said with something of the old sternness, though there was tender pity also in his tones. "Oh, papa, I am so wretched!" she sobbed, hiding her face on his breast.
'What's your name, young gentleman? asked Mrs Wilson, with, I thought, some degree of sternness. 'Wilfrid Cumbermede, I answered. She stared at me a little, with a stare which would have been a start in most women. I was by this time calm enough to take a quiet look at her. She was dressed in black silk, with a white neckerchief crossing in front, and black mittens on her hands.
Now put away that military sternness, which does not become you at all, and help me to mount my pretty Nelly, who is getting impatient to be off. And so am I. Come, you will get into camp in due season, for we will go only as far as the Run, and canter all the way."
The fortitude which, after the involuntary, inevitable rebellion, would permit no more idle repining, the decent pride that hid its own disease and bore it bravely, even the sternness that set its teeth against reaction he recognised them all; it was studying the reflection of his own lofty features in the fragile, quivering flesh of a girl. What is often proposed, rarely practised, Leslie did.
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