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He even fancied that her mirth at such times had an undue nervousness; that her pluck which was undoubted had something of the defiance of despair, and that her persistence often had the grimness of duty rather than the thoughtlessness of pure amusement. What was she trying to do? what was she trying to UNDO or forget? Her married life was apparently happy and even congenial.
She looked at him, and was startled by the set grimness of his face and the thunderous lowering of the black smudge of eyebrow. He said: "You went to my room to-day. Why?" She crimsoned, and stammered: "It was this morning, after you had gone out. I it struck me that your linen ought to be overlooked and put to rights from time to time. How did you know?"
But, as the lift shot upwards, he turned aside and began squarely to ascend the stairs. When Piers came out of his room ten minutes later with a coat over his arm he came face to face with him in the corridor. There was a certain grimness apparent about Crowther also by that time. He offered no explanation of his presence, although quite obviously he was waiting. Piers stood still.
Our walk was interesting, as it brought us unexpectedly upon several relics of antiquity, a loop-holed and battlemented gateway; and at various points fragments of the old Gothic stone-work, built in among more recent edifices, which themselves were old; grimness intermixed with quaintness and grotesqueness; old fragments of religious or warlike architecture mingled with queer domestic structures, the general effect sombre, sordid, and grimy; but yet with a fascination that makes us fain to linger about such scenes, and come to them again.
There I stood some while, a little dizzy with the unsteadiness of all around me, perhaps a little afraid, and yet vastly pleased with these strange sights; the captain meanwhile pointing out the strangest, and telling me their names and uses. "But where is my uncle?" said I suddenly. "Ay," said Hoseason, with a sudden grimness, "that's the point." I felt I was lost.
The beauty of the island is unveiled as diminishing distance shows you in distincter shape its lovely peaks, but it keeps its secret as you sail by, and, darkly inviolable, seems to fold itself together in a stony, inaccessible grimness.
Doubtless the meeting had been obliged to come some day: Cally had often thought of it with dread, once escaped it by a narrow margin. That it should have come now, in the gentler afterglow of this curiously disturbing day, seemed like the grimness of destiny.... No fear of over-generosity here; no gleam in these eyes of brave and beautiful things....
Nor was an assistant buyer, as a rule, in a position to do something for a salesman unless his samples had been referred to her by her superior. Nevertheless, her Jewish features spoke of kinship to me. They softened the grimness of the atmosphere around me Finally the office-boy came back. My heart beat violently.
He dried the tears upon her cheeks. "My own girl, you needn't be afraid," he said, and though his words were kind she wondered at the grimness of his voice. "I am not the sort of person to be disposed of in that way. Shall we talk of something less agitating? I can't have you crying on our wedding-night." His tone was repressive. She was conscious of a chill.
Its north side still consists of the same quaint row of small low shops that stood there doing perhaps a little brisker business when George the Fourth was King; its southern side of the same three substantial houses each behind a strip of garden, pleasant by contrast with surrounding grimness, built long ago some say before Queen Anne was dead.
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