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Mollychunkamug and her fellows are the bulges of the Androscoggin; Moosehead, of the Kennebec. Sluggish streams do not need such pauses. Peace is thrown away upon stolidity.
As day after day passed, however, and Maitland neglected to call, transacting such business as he had through me, the shadow on Gwen's face deepened, and the elasticity of manner, whereof she had given such promise at Maitland's last visit, totally deserted her, giving place to a dreamy, far-away stolidity of disposition which I knew full well boded no good.
And those two men were his friends!" Caw's expression resumed its usual stolidity. To have replied that they had ceased to be his master's friends would have involved explanations which he did not feel at liberty to impart even to those trustworthy people. "Do you think they will try again, Caw?" the girl pursued. "I wish you had not sent back the money "
They lunched, at her request, at an old-fashioned, sober restaurant in Regent Street, that gave one the impression of eating luncheon in a Georgian dining-room, in some private house of great stolidity and decorum. When Julie had said that she wanted such a place Peter had been tickled to think how she would behave in it. But she speedily enlightened him. She drew off her gloves with an air.
With true Spanish stolidity they did not rise as I approached, but waited for me to speak, looking at me indifferently. I asked whether I could have anything to eat. 'Fried eggs. 'Anything else? The hostess, a tall creature, haggard and grim, shrugged her shoulders. Her jaws were toothless, and when she spoke it was difficult to understand. I tied Aguador to a manger and took off his saddle.
Jarette heard behind him a light, soft sound of footfalls, deliberate, regular, successively nearer! Just before daybreak the next morning Dr. Helberson and his young friend Harper were driving slowly through the streets of North Beach in the doctor's coupé. "Have you still the confidence of youth in the courage or stolidity of your friend?" said the elder man.
She slid a look at him which might have meant nothing or meant much, so perfect its shy stolidity. "I was out," she said, "sitting to Miss Boyle." "So you have some work?" "It's finished now." "Then you're only getting the two shillings a day from Mr. Stone?" She nodded. "H'm!" The unexpected fervour of this grunt seemed to animate the little model.
Her Republican friends were furious with the peasant; accused him of stolidity, cowardice, want of patriotism; accused him of having given them the Empire, with all its vileness; wanted to take away from him the suffrage. Again and again does George Sand take up his defence, and warn her friends of the folly and danger of their false estimate of him.
He had never disguised his love for Marie Ivanovna and now she was his "spoils" won by his own strong piratical hand from the good but rather feeble bark Trenchard he manifested his scorn of us more openly than ever. He seemed to have grown rather stronger and stouter during these last months, and his square stolidity was a thing at which to marvel.
The park embrace, as nearly as I can analyse it, seems to be one part instinct, one part duty, one part custom, and one part reflex action. Anything more fixedly stolid than the Park Lover when he passes his arm round his chosen one and takes her crimson hand in his, I have never seen; unless, indeed, it be the fixed stolidity of the chosen one herself.
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