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As Agnes sat on the parapet, with the moonlight streaming down on her young, spiritual face, now tremulous with deep suppressed emotion, the painter thought he had never seen any human creature that looked nearer to his conception of a celestial being. They both sat awhile in that kind of quietude which often falls between two who have stirred some deep fountain of emotion.
I passed its doors and saw them besieged by thousands of middle-class men and women drawn up in a long queue waiting very quietly with a strange quietude for any crowd in Paris to withdraw the savings of a lifetime or the capital of their business houses.
The latter, dark and forbidding yet home-like and gladdening to the eyes of Scotsmen suggested toil and trouble, while the former, with its meandering river, verdant meadows, groves of sweet-scented mimosa-trees, and herds of antelopes, quaggas, and other animals pasturing in undisturbed quietude, filled the mind with visions of peace and plenty.
"A pauper is one who begs," said poor Stafford, his face white as marble. "I have not yet begged " "Stafford!" cried Maude. Then she swung on her father. "Why do you speak to him to him like this? Stafford, you will yield " "In everything, in every way, but this," he said, with the same ominous quietude.
They are stopping at the Astor House. By the way, my trunks are there, you may send for them as soon as you please. Why, this is worth getting married for! If I ever marry, it shall be to a rich man, and one who will let me do just as I please, too." Ernest in vain endeavored to conceal his vexation at this unexpected innovation on the elegant quietude and romantic seclusion of our home.
Michael had been laid on his bed; at present Jane only was with him, but the doctor would return shortly. 'Will you tell her I'm here? said Joseph to Mrs. Byass. 'I'll see her in the sitting-room. He went up and waited. Throughout the house prevailed that unnatural, nerve-distressing quietude which tells the presence of calamity.
The cool quietude of the garden, the dark shadows of the trees, called to her. "Perhaps you will wonder," said Durrance, "why I have told you to-night what I have up till now kept to myself. I did not dare to tell it you before. I want to explain why."
So she remained there until Teola cried herself into a quietude that left an expression of wonder, knowledge and sorrow. As Tess led her up the hill to the minister's cottage, she saw that tears would come no more; that the mother would never know the emotions of a girl again. Teola resembled the squatter, Myra, with her pain-drawn face.
Verily, the woman hath been like a possessed one; and there lacks little that I should take in hand, to drive Satan out of her with stripes." The stranger had entered the room with the characteristic quietude of the profession to which he announced himself as belonging.
Keeping closely along the river margin, and walking slowly, with the dogs close at heel, I soon became lost to everything but the entrancing beauty of the evening, its perfect peacefulness and quietude, emphasised rather than broken by the gentle gurgle and ripple of the river along its banks and the soft sigh and rustle of the wind among the reeds; while the swift changes of light and colour flooding the landscape as the sun sank rapidly in the western sky afforded a picture the surpassing loveliness of which there are no words to describe.
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