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He was gay, and therefore incomprehensible to a slow-thinking, grave-faced race. "What do I want with a heritage?" he asked, carelessly. "I am mate of 'The Last Hope' and that is all. Give me time. I have not made up my mind yet, but I think it will be No." And oddly enough, it was Colville who preached patience to his companions in suspense. "Give him time," he said.
"She didn't wave back, mother dear," exclaimed Faith, and then the travelers were close at hand, and Mrs. Carew was greeting the tall, grave-faced man and welcoming Esther. "My little girl was so tired that we stopped for the night at your neighbor Stanley's house, five miles east," said Mr. Eldridge; "and that is why we are in good season this morning." While Mr.
As the girl made her appeal to her father, the grave-faced, gentle woman who had remained with this household for nigh fourteen days stood quietly by. Dinah Morse had not quitted the house since the day upon which the hapless Frederick had been stricken down by the fell disease. For hardly had his remains been borne from the house before the mother fell violently ill of a wasting fever.
Meanwhile, the grave-faced official eyed us both, and silently nodded his head. At the Grandmother, in particular, he gazed with a curiosity which almost bordered upon rudeness. At length, too, he smiled. "Pray recollect yourself!" cried the old lady. "And may my money choke you! Alexis Ivanovitch, tell him that we can easily repair to someone else."
Around this telegram a group of grave-faced men stood in silence, or with muttered words of surprise. "The Croonah!" they said, "the Croonah!" as if a pillar of their faith had fallen. For once no one had a theory: no carpet mariner could explain this thing. Against the jamb of the window, behind them all, Willie Carr stood leaning. "Done anything on her?" some one asked him.
On the night of my aunt's death he had seen a tall, grave-faced man hurriedly leave the hotel. As the man passed the desk he removed his hat and mopped his forehead, and the night-clerk noticed that in the middle of his head there was a patch of hair as white as snow.
A grave-faced Navigating Commander, scenting the possibility of an interesting discussion between these exponents of submarine and aerial warfare, pushed his way towards them through the crush. "... I remember her quite well," the Flying Man was saying as he stirred his tea. "Nice little thing ... married, is she? Well, well..." "You're a nice pair," said the Commander, smiling.
Then, when all was ready, the grave-faced sage raised some lever or another, and we shot away down, down, down into space with such fearful velocity that the wind whistled about our ears, our white robes fluttered, and our breath seemed taken away. The sensation was awful.
Gard!" and Gard pushed his way among unyielding legs and shoulders, and stood before the grave-faced men at the table. They all knew him and had all come to esteem what they knew of him. They knew also of his difficulties with his men, and that there was a certain feeling against him in some quarters. Not one of them thought it likely he had done this dreadful thing.
After the performance was ended, they went out to the menagerie tent, in a body, to look at the animals. One of the boys became separated from the others, and stood watching the antics of the monkeys, and laughing gleefully at each comical trick performed by the grave-faced little creatures.
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