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Rae knew himself to be helpless in Davie's hands, and he knew also that nothing short of violence would hasten Davie from his "usual." "Ay, that'll dae, because it's richt dune. But that's no' what I call cannel," grumbled Davie, glowering fiercely at the burning coal, as if meditating a fresh attack. "Well, well," said Mr. Rae, "tell the Farquhars about it."
"When I'm married, Ailie," she whispered, "I'll sing from morn till night, and you shall sit and hear me, without Margray's glowering at us, or my mother so much as saying, 'Why do you so?" For all the time the song had been purling from her smiling lips, Mrs. Strathsay's eyes were laid, a weight like lead, on me, and then she had risen as if it hurt her, and walked to the door.
Then, a little more alert, he looked round him, and for the first time saw Caldegard glowering at him across the table with fierce curiosity. "I didn't see you, sir," he said, his heart warming to the old man's piteous face, "or I'd have told you before I spoke to anyone else that Miss Caldegard is perfectly well, though she's a bit done up."
He was in an ugly, lowering humor and sat himself down at the table without uttering a word, resting his chin upon his clenched fist and glowering fixedly at the corn cake while Dinah fetched him a plate and knife and fork. His coming seemed to have taken away all of Hiram's appetite.
Following him into the garden next morning, he said to himself: 'No irony that's fatal. Man to man or boy to boy whichever it is! But, on the garden path, alongside that young spread-eagle, whose dark, glowering, self-contained face he secretly admired, he merely began: "How do you like your Uncle John?" "He doesn't like me, Uncle Felix."
"And who is he, I should like to know? Point him out to me, please! For I didn't know I had a cousin at this party." "There he is!" said Betsy Butterfly, nodding her head towards the glowering Joseph. "What! That unshaven stranger in the yellowish-brown suit?" cried Buster Bumblebee. "I assure you he's no relation of mine." "You must be mistaken," Betsy persisted.
For a breathless moment he stood there, glowering down at the shrinking wretch on the floor. Then, his face, still set and white with passion, he turned contemptuously away. Mooney, cursing cowardly behind his teeth, watched him ascend the stairs, but the younger man never so much as glanced below. For the two performances following there occurred an enforced shift of actors, owing to Mr.
All that could be gathered from any of them was that the opposing armies of Samavia seemed each to have reached the culmination of disaster and exhaustion. Which party had the power left to take any final step which could call itself a victory, it was impossible to say. Never had a country been in a more desperate case. "It is the time!" said The Rat, glowering over his map.
Deveny was strangely silent, glowering toward the desert; Rogers folded his arms and faced the oncoming rider and the somber-coated animal he bestrode; Lawson scowled; and Laskar nervously estimated the distance that stretched between himself and the steady-eyed man who had told him certain things in a voice that had been entirely convincing.
The cannibal atrocities of these human beasts, the glowering heads stuck all over the stockade, the latest addition thereto being those of the slain Ba-gcatya, the all-pervading influence of death brooding over this demoniacal haunt, even as the ever-present circlings of carrion birds high in mid-air all this weighed upon his mind until he could have blown out his own brains for sheer horror and loathing.
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