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Updated: May 9, 2025
'Very well, I'll make a fresh brew when papa comes home, and perhaps you'll have some then. You did not half finish to-night. Aubrey yawned; and after some speculation about their father's absence, Gertrude went to bed; and Aubrey, calling himself tired, stood up, stretched every limb portentously, and said he should go off too.
"I assure you it's not the slightest use," I said with all possible emphasis which seemed only to increase the solemn discontent of his expression. "But in order that my going should be a perfectly candid proceeding I must first convince my wife that it isn't the slightest use," he objected portentously. "Oh, you casuist!" I said.
She felt at this moment strangely and portentously afraid of him had in her ears the hum of a sense that, should it come to that kind of tension, she must fly on the spot to Chalk Farm.
So I experience some amusement when I see to-day the solemn statement in an American journal which claims I do not say with no reason to be portentously clever and superior, that Strindberg is destined to become in America the voice of the masculine reaction in favour of "the corrective influence of a matter-of-fact attitude towards woman."
As for Sim and Candlish, I doubt if they crossed my mind. At the "Green Dragon" Rowley was waiting on the doorsteps with the luggage, and really was bursting with unpalatable conversation. "Who do you think we've 'ad 'ere, sir?" he began breathlessly, as the chaise drove off. "Red Breasts"; and he nodded his head portentously. "Red Breasts?"
Perhaps, in a crisis, a minister of religion is better armed than a philosopher. Gower would not own that, but he acknowledged the evidences, and owned to envy; especially when he accompanied his father to the greengrocer's shop, and Mr. Woodseer undisturbedly said: 'Here is the place. The small stuffed shop appeared to grow portentously cavernous and waveringly illumined.
In this convulsion she frowned portentously; her low forehead overhung her eyes; the eyes themselves, in shadow, stared, splendid and cold, and her hands clinched themselves at her sides. She looked austere and terrible and was during this moment an incarnation the vividness of which drew from Sherringham a stifled cry.
Williams's desperate retreat had involved her feet with the prostrate children. After the panic Williams bore traces of a feeling of shame. He returned to the charge. He firmly grasped the knob with his left hand, and with his other hand turned the key in the lock. He pushed the door, and as it swung portentously open he sprang nimbly to one side like the fearful slave liberating the lion.
She still beheld the fiery glare of an expiring sunset, and against the ensuing pallor of sea and sky a leaden-hued human, figure strangely, almost portentously evident. That it appeared noble in pose and in outline, even beautiful, she could not deny. But that somehow it frightened her, she could equally little deny.
"There are many of us," he said, "with reason to thank you for a most satisfying operation. We smashed that cruiser!" The scowling man nodded portentously. The introductions went on. The skinny adolescent was "our Talent for Locating Individuals." The enormously fat woman: "our Talent for Propaganda." Bors was confused. He had to steel himself not to decide flatly that all this was nonsense.
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