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It was a cold, raw morning, and the mists rose sullenly from the dank hedges and comfortless fields. Stern and self-accusing was the scrutiny of Maltravers into the recesses of his conscience, and the blotted pages of the Past.
She dwelt on the remembrance of the hills and the tramp with strange persistency, and yet no more now than before did she attempt to come to conclusions with her thought; it was vague, she would not define it; she brooded over it sullenly and obtusely. Sometimes her thoughts slipped away from it, but with each returning, a fresh stage was marked in the progress of her nervous despair.
I watched the host as it wound slowly over the crest with its pursuers hanging sullenly at heel: then I turned and descended in search of Margery. As I reached the gap in the hedge, Mark entered the garden by the little gate opposite. He came hastily, but halted as if shot, with his hand on the gatepost to steady him yet not at sight of me. I looked across the gap into the garden between us.
"Well?" he said gruffly, without attempting to change his position. "Short, and not polite!" retorted Jasper, shaking him again. "Didn't I tell you I'd come here to-day, you imp of darkness?" "You did, guv'nor," the man replied sullenly. "Well, here I am. You're not drunk, are you? Here let's look at you." With a cruel smile, the soft, amiable Mr.
When once free of the bottom, it rose partly out of water, all weedy and slimy, a devilish-looking object, which the moon had not shone upon for half a hundred years, then plunged again, and sullenly returned to its old resting-place, for the remnant of the century. "That looked ugly!" quoth Silas. "I half thought it was the Evil One, on the same errand as ourselves, searching for Zenobia."
For water he had to go some little way below the lip of the plateau; but carrying a blazing balsam-knot he had nothing to fear from the beasts that lay in ambush about the spring. They slunk away sullenly at the approach of the waving flame. That night Grôm slept securely, with three fires before his door.
There was much of the tempestuous March weather in the hearts of both of us, as we sullenly glowered along the carriage-windows of the slackening train. One is apt, however, to misjudge the special difficulties of a situation; and the reception proved, after all, an easy and informal matter.
To-morrow and many days afterwards there were dashes instead of words. Patience travelled back to her sullenly. As we must have some kind of food, and she had nothing else, she took to that and found it dryer than of yore. It is a composing but a lean dietary. The dead are patient, and we get a certain likeness to them in feeding on it unintermittingly overlong.
Seeing that resistance was useless, she sullenly accompanied them to a street-car, and was soon in readiness to be called upon for her testimony. The judge having disposed of the case then on trial, Mildred was again summoned to the bar, and the unwilling witness was sent for.
The soldiers had thrown down their arms and stood sullenly before him, refusing to obey his command to take them up again and help him attempt, even at that late hour, to retrieve the fortunes of the day. Crispin looked on in scorn and loathing. His passions awakened at the sight of Lesley's inaction needed but this last breath to fan it into a very blaze of wrath.
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