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"If I could get some water I think I'd soon be all right." She stood looking down on him with a clouded, almost sullen, expression. "Did you sleep long?" she asked for something to say. "I don't know how long. A little while ago I woke up and looked for you, but you weren't anywhere round, so I just lay here and looked out across to the mountains and began to think of California.
She turned away and busied herself in correcting his Latin exercise, and for some time the boy sat sullen and silent. At length he sighed heavily, and taking his crutches, came up to the table where she sat. "Suppose you tell my mother I am sorry I was disrespectful." "Felix, are you really sorry?" "Yes."
"The resentment must have been about something else, Mistress Blythe, and you jest come in for a share of it because you happened past. Leslie DOES take sullen spells now and again, poor girl. I can't blame her, when I know what she has to put up with. I don't know why it's permitted. The doctor and I have talked a lot abut the origin of evil, but we haven't quite found out all about it yet.
Two sullen crimson discs glowed in the black arch of the tunnel. With a menacing and sinister speed, they grew and grew until roaring they sprang out of the darkness, and the long, dingy train, with a whining of brakes, drew up at the platform. 'Here's one nearly empty, said Frank, with his hand on the handle. 'Don't you think said Maude. 'Yes, I do, cried Frank.
Cecilia followed at a sullen canter. Before they came up to Beauchamp, the long-shanked man had stalked away townward. Lydiard held Beauchamp by the hand. Some last words, after the manner of instructions, passed between them, and then Lydiard also turned away. 'I say, Beauchamp, Mrs. Devereux wants to hear who that man is, Palmet said, drawing up. 'That man is Dr.
During the last days employed by the legal formalities required before proceeding to arrest for debt, Raoul went about, in spite of himself, with that coldly sullen and morose expression of face which may be noticed in persons who are either fated to commit suicide or are meditating it.
I assure you, to have you go my way instead of your own is the last thing I could wish, though I confess I do wish very much that you would choose the right way for your own way." He made me no answer, but maintained a sullen silence.
"No, I shan't be surprised, but I feel in my bones that I'm going to fight Barode Barouche into the last corner of the corral." "Don't be too sure of that, my son. Won't the thing that prevents your marrying Junia be a danger in this, if you go on?" Sullen tragedy came into his face, his lips set. The sudden paleness of his cheek, however, was lost in a smile.
Hopkinson Smith, who had been inside a few clubs here and there, and who spoke, in a sketch of London, of its "forbidding" aspect, "a great, square, sullen mass of granite, frowning at you from under its heavy browed windows an aloof, stately, cold and unwelcome sort of place."
She herself hardly knows why, at this particular time, she should look at him, yet she feels that some unaccountable fascination is compelling her gaze to encounter his. Their eyes meet. As they do so, Dora shudders and turns deadly pale. There is that in Arthur Dynecourt's dark and sullen eyes that strikes her cold with terror and vague forebodings of evil.
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