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"Yes; and I remember old Stephen Rand, Gideon's father a pirate of a man, sullen, cruel, and revengeful! A black stock!" "The Waynes were not angels either save by comparison," quoth the first. "All the same it was a great speech." "I grant you that," said the other. "Black stock or not, we'll see him Governor of Virginia. Curious, isn't it?"
Everything is gone! What does it mean?" The answer was ready. From afar in the forest, low down under the horizon's rim, came the sullen note of a great gun a dull, sinister sound that seemed to roll across the Wilderness and hang over the log house and those within it. Harley threw himself on the bed with a groan of grief and rage. "Oh, God," he cried, "that I should be tied here on such a day!"
In this manner hour after hour passed, in listless quiet or sullen expectation, until the day had gradually advanced, and it became dangerous to keep the sentinels and picket in a situation where they were liable to be seen by any straggler who might be passing near the wood.
She remembered her stepfather's face it grew heavy and sullen and he walked to the window, where his brother followed him and she remembered their words and had pondered over them often since. "It's the damned breeding in the brat that fairly gets me raw, Ted," Mr. Anderton had said. "Why the devil couldn't Elaine have given it to my children, too.
It was near: and as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it as I had neither joined my hands, nor bent my knees, nor moved my lips it came: in full heavy swing the torrent poured over me. The whole consciousness of my life lorn, my love lost, my hope quenched, my faith death-struck, swayed full and mighty above me in one sullen mass.
When it at last reached him, it seemed inadequate, and he became more sullen than ever. He declared that he would rather serve the Queen as a private soldier, at his own expense "lean as his purse was" than accept the limited authority conferred on him. He preferred to show his devotion "in a beggarly state, than in a formal show."
He found something there, raised a hand to his lips, swallowed something. And in a few seconds, as his eyes grew brighter, he turned a suspicious and sullen glance on the group which stood watching him. "What do you want?" he growled. "Who are you?" "We want some information from you," said the Inspector. "When did you last see your brother, or friend, or whatever he is Chen Li?"
En now he done 'vacuate hit, en Gin'ral Banks he prance right in! Hit look powerful cu'rous, hit sho do. But dar! I done seed de stars all fallin' way back in '33, en dat wuz powerful cu'rous too, fer de worl' didn't come ter an eend Mebbe, sah, he jes'er drawin' dat gent'man on?" Sullen and sorry, the army marched on, and at noon came to Elk Run Valley on the edge of Swift Run Gap.
"What do you mean, Belle?" asked her mother. Belle made no answer, but went to her closet bedroom with a morose, sullen look on her face. The poor woman looked inquiringly at Mildred, who said soothingly, "Don't worry, mamma. Belle is a little tired and discouraged tonight. She'll be in a better mood in the morning."
More ground was yielded, but at the same immense price, and the corps, sullen, indomitable, maintained its order, always presenting a front to the foe, blazing with death. Thomas stood all day, while the Southern masses, flushed by victory everywhere else, pressed harder. Terrible reports of defeat and destruction came to him continually, but he did not flinch.
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