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The people of England were very much shocked at such a marriage, and a great prelate, the Bishop of Winchester, remonstrated against it with such sternness and authority, that Ethelbald not only soon put his wife away, but submitted to a severe penance which the bishop imposed upon him in retribution for his sin.
Even 'yours truly, Jacob Langton, in his 'letter to his Daughter's Mercenary Fiance', mitigates the sternness of his tone by the remark that his 'task is inexpressibly painful. And he, Mr. Langton, is the one writer who lets the post go out on his wrath.
"Then," cried the captain, brutally interrupting him, "you have lost your labour, Monsieur." "You do not know me," replied the prisoner with sternness a prisoner he seemed to be. "You do not understand that I am a friend of the Prince of Conde, and that " He would have said more, but the Italian again cut him short. "A fig for the Prince of Conde!" he cried; "I understand my duty.
Wildrake stood a silent, inactive, and almost a terrified spectator, while Cromwell, assuming a firm sternness of eye and manner, as one who compels himself to look on what some strong internal feeling renders painful and disgustful to him, proceeded, in brief and interrupted expressions, but yet with a firm voice, to comment on the portrait of the late King.
John caught the name perhaps, too, he recognized the face it was only too public, alas! His own took a sternness, such as I had never before seen, and yet there was a trace of pity in it too. "You are quite well. Indeed, he looks so n'est-ce pas, ma chere?" John bore gravely the eyes of the two ladies fixed on him, in rather too plain admiration very gravely, too, he bowed.
Whether it is counterfeit or not, you took it in over the counter, Chetwood," he said coldly. "This very day," admitted his oldest son. "Then, my boy, it is up to you," said the jeweler grimly. "What Just what do you mean?" asked Chet, somewhat troubled by his father's sternness. "In a jewelry store," said Mr. Belding seriously, "as I have often told you, a clerk must keep his eyes open.
"Fool!" cried Tabus indignantly, but the girl exclaimed, in a tone of sincere shame: "You do well to call me that. Perhaps I deserve still harsher names, for, in spite of the sternness with which I forbade him ever to remind me of the studio by even a single word, I soon listened to him willingly when he besought me, if I really loved him, not to refuse what would make him happy.
The few articles we carry about us, seeing that we could save nothing from the wreck, are not worthy of your acceptance. May I now inquire what powerful prince of the Desert I have the honour of addressing?" The sheikh appeared somewhat pleased at this speech; but he did not relax the sternness of his features while he answered
"Well, now," said his host, while a slight blush rose to his cheeks, "I will tell you, that though to my father's sternness and avarice I attribute many of my faults, I yet always had a sort of love for him; and when in London I accidentally heard that he was growing blind, and living with an artful old jade of a housekeeper, who might send him to rest with a dose of magnesia the night after she had coaxed him to make a will in her favour.
But that was not the master's idea, for shortly he returned with two candles, placed one on either side of Bert's desk, then went to his desk, drew forth the long, black strap, whose cruel sting Bert had not felt for years, and standing in front of the quaking boy, looking the very type of unrelenting sternness, said: "You shall not leave your seat until your composition is finished, and if you have not made a beginning inside of five minutes you may expect punishment."
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