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The two girls belonged there among accepted things. He looked up suddenly at his father, and asked the question they had least of all expected to hear: "Where's Esther?" The two girls made a movement to go, but he glanced at them frowningly, as if they mustn't break up the talk at this moment, and they hesitated, hand in hand. "She's living here," said the colonel, "with her grandmother."
The result was that she no longer desired to thwart the workings of law and justice, of right as she knew it. She wished to divest herself as quickly as possible of that which properly belonged to another. After all, her money had not brought her much! Why should she cling to it? The mason was still doubtful and observed frowningly,
Her face was seamed and lined with innumerable wrinkles, clearly defined by the dirt which was in them; bushy grey eyebrows, drawn frowningly over two piercing black eyes, whose light was undimmed by age; a hook nose, like the beak of a bird of prey, and a thin-lipped mouth devoid of teeth.
That's all, lads; there's plenty of oil, and you can bring along some blankets with the evening meal." He stopped, standing alone in the narrow opening, the light of the lantern without bringing his face into bold relief. The girl had sunk helplessly onto the bench, her head bowed within her hands. The Mexican eyed her frowningly. "Quite tamed already," he said sarcastically. "Bah!
The stranger regarded him frowningly, then shifted his rifle into his right hand. "Who be yuh?" demanded the man. "Oh! I thought you were a dummy," apologized Hippy. "A thousand pardons, old man." "May I ask who you are and what you wish?" questioned Grace pleasantly, as she stepped forward. "Ah asked yuh first. Who be yuh?"
But I have no great opinion even of myself." The ex-soldier glanced distrustfully at the newcomer. Then he remarked: "What you say is cant, sheer Jesuitism. It is fellows like THOSE, rather, that ought to have a poor opinion of themselves." To this the other made no reply merely he put a piece of bread into his mouth. For a moment or two the ex-soldier eyed him frowningly.
This looks promising," she added, spreading the map out on the ground. "What a queer thing to bury, and who did it? Surely not the man who lies there under the cross." "I should not take that for granted," observed Hi Lang quietly. "Please let me see it," requested Miss Briggs. Grace handed the map to her, and Elfreda studied it frowningly. "It means nothing in particular, I should say.
This is the keenest man on my staff, Father." Tim O'Neill beamed all over at this praise, and he settled himself resolutely to his task. Meanwhile Denis Quirk's office door closed with a bang on Father Healy and himself. "I should like you to read this," said the priest, as he handed the fateful letter to Denis Quirk. The latter took it and read it frowningly.
But the intellectual difficulties which stand in the way of the width of our affections, and the moral difficulties which stand still more frowningly and forbiddingly in the way, have no power over that love of Christ's which is close and tender, and clinging with all the tenderness and closeness and clingingness of a human affection and lofty and universal and passionless and perpetual, with all the height and breadth and calmness and eternity of a divine heart.
"I see these damning proofs now!" cried Kirkpatrick, who had frowningly listened to Athol; "the abusers of my country's confidence betray themselves at this moment by their eagerness to impeach her friends; and I pray Heaven, that before they mislead others into so black a conspiracy, the lie in their throats may choke its inventors!"
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