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Bale, staring morosely at the crowd about the fire, crouched in the splay of the window, while the Colonel, in the same posture at the other window, gazed with feelings not more cheerful on the dark lake. He was concerned for himself and his companion; for he knew that frightened folk are ever the most cruel.
Louhi bade Ilmarinen welcome when he came into the guest-hall, and calling up her servant-maidens, she gazed at her daughter's suitor. The maidens bore wax tapers, and by their light the bridegroom looked handsomer than ever, and his eyes sparkled like the waves of the sea.
"It seems like a dream," said Tournier, as he gazed for a long while upon the site where, as he too well knew, so many hearts had ached for years. "Who is going to live in the house of Major Kelly?" "He has bought it for himself, but he is not there now." "How I should have liked to see him. He was a fine officer and an excellent man.
"This was not the first time," Els eagerly interrupted, "that young Vorchtel tried to anger him in the presence of others; and he believed that he was justified in bearing a grudge against his former friend it was considered a settled thing that Wolff and his sister Ursula were to marry." "Until," Cordula broke in, "he gazed into your bright eyes."
She seemed to be shrunken from the happenings of that day. They hardly knew the little, shrivelled, gray woman who looked at them with unfamiliar eyes. Alida gazed at the little Judith, and there was something in her mother’s glance that made the little one hide her face in her sister’s shoulder.
"You have not yet told us why you brought us here my lord," said Etherege to Rochester, after the latter had gazed for a few moments in silence at the house. "Are you resolved to make another attempt to carry off the girl and failing in it, to give her up for ever!" "You have guessed my purpose precisely," returned Rochester.
"However, I don't mind. I'll pay you if I find you sit well. Take off your hat now and sit down anywhere. I want just to make a rough sketch of your head." She obeyed, and I drew out some large paper sheets and found a piece of charcoal. Sitting down opposite her, I gazed at her meditatively. Now that her hat had been removed I could see the extraordinary wealth and beauty of her hair.
Am I not right, comrades? Was not the play as I have stated it? 'Neither more nor less, the poet answered; and the tribune and the prætorian captain spoke to the same effect. The comedian still looked unconvinced, and, for the moment, gazed inquiringly from one to the other, in the hope that some newer recollection would come to the mind of either of them and lead to a recantation.
There was a high-backed old-fashioned chair by the window. Against this Miss Cardinal stood, her thin body reflected, motionless, as though it had been painted in a long glass behind her. She gazed before her. Maggie saw that she was agitated, passionately moved.
For a moment she gazed wistfully at him; then as if impelled by a hidden force, she spoke. "Little boy, who are you?" "I'm David." "David! David who? Do you live here? I've seen you here before." "Oh, yes, I've been here quite a lot of times." Purposely the boy evaded the questions. David was getting tired of questions especially these questions. "And have you lost one dear to you, little boy?"
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