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Updated: May 11, 2025
Shorts, now thoroughly sober, followed the big freshman into the drawing-room, where a dozen or more downcast-looking boys were curled up on divans. Swipes was being urged up the broad oak stairs, Spuddy now and then giving him a severe poke in the ribs. Preston perched the hapless boy against his chamber door with the injunction to get to bed the best he could.
Vasari?" he said, interrogatively, as a downcast-looking woman came to the door. "Yes, sir. What name, sir, if you please?" "Say that a gentleman from Scotland wishes to see him." The woman gave him a keen look, as if she knew something of the errand upon which Dino Vasari had come to her house; but said nothing, and ushered him at once into a sitting-room on the ground-floor.
She had heard of it before she left home; but the thought that Roger might meet and fight against the young master whom he loved almost overcame her now, and she could hardly restrain her tears when the downcast-looking man ventured to say farewell as she was passing. "Farewell Roger, and Godspeed to you, and quickly bring this war to a close, and you back to us.
He had only to wait a short while in the hall, when before him there opened the door of a room on the ground floor, adorned with sculptures, in which a number of officers sat at a long table. To Heideck it was at once clear that he was to be tried before a court-martial. A few very downcast-looking men had just been led out.
The Sabrina had been gone ten days, when a weary, downcast-looking man entered Mr Abraham Oliphant's office. "Your name ain't Oliphant, is it?" he asked, doggedly. "Yes, it is," said Hubert, whom he was addressing. The man got up, and stared steadily at him for a minute. "It ain't him!" he muttered to himself.
Her cheeks grew pale with anxious fear as the bridle of her horse was at length seized, and she was forced back against a wall; and then for the first time she noticed that a body of soldiers were drawing near, and beyond them marched a number of downcast-looking men, evidently prisoners.
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