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They were only women; they were not regular labourers; they were not particularly required anywhere; hence they had to hire a waggon at their own expense, and got nothing sent gratuitously. It was a relief to Tess, when she looked out of the window that morning, to find that though the weather was windy and louring, it did not rain, and that the waggon had come.
Day broke with rather more than half a gale blowing beneath a louring sky. Once clear of the bottleneck mouth of the harbour, the Assyrian ran into brutal quartering seas.
'He is the only son of his mother and she is a widow. 'He ought to go out. My only brother is out. I wish I were a man. I hate dawdlers. She looked at him: her eyes were large and grey under black lashes, they were dark and louring. 'Have you, by any chance, a spark of the devil in you? asked Merton, taking a social header. 'I have been told so, and sometimes thought so, said Miss Willoughby.
I, for my part, never landed on Calais pier without feeling that a load of sorrows was left on the other side of the water; and have always fancied that black care stepped on board the steamer, along with the custom-house officers at Gravesend, and accompanied one to yonder black louring towers of London so busy, so dismal, and so vast.
He bent forward a little, and stood motionless and drawn up, the pupils of his eyes slowly contracting and expanding as he gazed down into the carpeted vacant gloom; past the dim louring presence that had fallen back before him. His mouth opened. 'Who's there? at last he called. 'Thank God, thank God! he heard Mr Bethany mutter.
The captain squared himself toward Lanyard, his face louring, his jaw pugnacious. "How did you happen to be up and dressed at that late hour, so ready to respond to this ah premonition of yours?" "I sleep not well, monsieur. It was my intention to go on deck and endeavour to walk off my insomnia." Captain Osborne commented with a snort.
Of their tenant he was feeling just then a bit less sure than he had half-an-hour since; his regard was louring and mistrustful. He was, in short, suffering reaction from the high spirits engendered by his cross-Channel exploits, his successful get-away, and the unusual circumstances attendant upon his return to this memory-haunted mausoleum of an unhappy childhood.
Willard baptizeth my Son whom I named Stephen. Day was louring after the storm but not freezing. Child shrank at the water but Cry'd not. His brother Sam shew'd the Midwife who carried him the way to the Pew. I held him up."
He lingered awhile in the vestibule, and the service was some way advanced when he was put into a seat. It was a louring, mournful, still afternoon, when a religion of some sort seems a necessity to ordinary practical men, and not only a luxury of the emotional and leisured classes.
Down fell the black rain in torrents; and far from the mountains you might hear the rushing of the swollen streams, as they poured into the bosom of the valleys. The sullen, continued mass of cloud was broken, and the vapours hurried fast and louring over the heavens, leaving now and then a star to glitter forth ere again "the jaws of darkness did devour it up."
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