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Yet something in the girl's face made her think that these hills, this air and sky, were in fact alive to her, real; that her soul, being lower, it might be, than ours, lay closer to Nature, knew the language of the changing day, of these earnest-faced hills, of the very worms crawling through the brown mould.
And in front of these varied scenes stood a battery of queer cameras moving picture cameras, looking like flat fig boxes with a tube sticking out, and a handle on one side, at which earnest-faced young men were vigorously clicking. And, off to one side, stood several men in their shirt sleeves superintending the performances. They gave many directions. "No, not that way!
The people had been looking for Him, and as soon as the noble, earnest-faced young Teacher was seen walking in the marble court of the Temple they thronged around Him to hear Him teach, or to see if He would do any miracle. Some wondered at His wisdom and His doctrine, and asked where it came from, "My doctrine is not mine," He said, "but His that sent me.
Then he approached the group about Bert, calling out something about "mitbringen." An earnest-faced, emaciated man with a white moustache appealed to Bert. "Herr Booteraidge, sir, we are chust to start!" "Where am I?" Bert repeated. Some one shook him by the other shoulder. "Are you Herr Booteraidge?" he asked.
After that there was another long interval of darkness. When the light came again, clearer this time, the same earnest-faced man bent over him. It was MacNelly. And with recognition the past flooded back. Duane tried to speak. His lips were weak, and he could scarcely move them. "Poggin!" he whispered. His first real conscious thought was for Poggin. Ruling passion eternal instinct!
We simply couldn't make her stay behind." Isobel thrust herself free from her father's arms and darted out through the circle of rugged, earnest-faced punchers and cowmen to where Genevieve lay resting with the baby clasped to her bosom. "Dear! you poor dear!" she murmured, kneeling to stroke the head of the weary young mother. "I shall soon be rested," replied Genevieve. "How about Tom?
In the lanes, courts, and alleys that ran still farther back into the great hive, there was an amount of squalor, destitution, violence, sin, and misery, the depth of which was known only to the people who dwelt there, and to those earnest-faced men with Bibles who made it their work to cultivate green spots in the midst of such unpromising wastes, and to foster the growth of those tender and beautiful flowers which sometimes spring and flourish where, to judge from appearances, one might be tempted to imagine nothing good could thrive.
Earnest-faced busts, in plaster, stand prominently about the room, periodicals and papers are piled on little shelves, and bright bookcases are filled with reports and various documents concerning the society, all bound so exactly.
Yet something in the girl's face made her think that these hills, this air and sky, were in fact alive to her, real; that her soul, being lower, it might be, than ours, lay closer to Nature, knew the language of the changing day, of these earnest-faced hills, of the very worms crawling through the brown mould.
"We'd rather risk the hazards of a raw country," said the tenant farmer, "than be tenants always." "We'll sell our eastern land at a high price," said the landowners, "and improve new land." "My mother took in washing to save money," said an earnest-faced boy, "so I could make this trip. A middle-aged widow from Keokuk told the group about her: "I mortgaged my cottage to come.
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