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Updated: May 14, 2025
We waited an hour, until we were nodding in our chairs, and all started from a troubled doze at the sound of loud knocking at the door. In the passage outside stood four sad-faced young men of the card tribe, bearing two large and extraordinary implements.
Ridout, the Northeastern's capital lawyer, was figuring at the other end of the table; the Honourable Brush Bascom was bending over a wide, sad-faced gentleman of some two hundred and fifty pounds who sat at the centre in his shirt-sleeves, poring over numerous sheets in front of him which were covered with names of the five hundred.
Thereon the other two took the Rood and swore upon it: and Hugh was hushed and meek and sad-faced after he had sworn; but Arthur the Black Squire bowed down his head and wept, and his fellows marvelled nought thereat, neither did Birdalone; and all her body yearned toward him to solace him.
Withhold the fury of Thy wrath, Though we deserve its pouring forth, And stay Thy chastening scourge!" Melancholy, heart-rending was the sense of penitence conveyed by this deep, vibrating, bell-like voice. A penitential hymn in the house of the headsman! The sad-faced youth shivered at the sound of this voice and seemed to awake suddenly from out of a reverie.
"Liz," she said to the sad-faced girl, who seemed gloomier than ever on this morning, "who was the man who scared you in the rain last evening?" The maid-of-all-work did not look startled. Perhaps she had nerved herself already for just this question. She merely stared at Laura unblinkingly and asked. "What, Ma'am?" "Don't pretend that you don't know what I mean, Liz," said Laura, impatiently.
Presently there was a little flutter, a rustling of silken robes, more kissing and hand-shaking, and "good bye, loves," and the little party dispersed. "Widowed and fatherless; God pity them," came in a low voice from a sad-faced woman, clad in the sable robes of mourning. It was that "distant branch of the family," none other than Mrs.
There were cottages that we flew past, reminding me of the Larkum abode; these I kept wearily peopling with white, sightless faces, and hungry, sad-faced women and children. When at last my own thoughts were beginning to consume me, Mr. Winthrop came and sat near me. "Is a journey in the cars equal to an hour spent with your widows?" he asked. "I have enjoyed the drive.
I remember that during our short visit we found the vicar garrulous, but his lodger strangely reticent, a sad-faced, introspective man, sitting with averted eyes, brooding apparently upon his own affairs.
If by chance you do find, after long bruising of knuckles, that you have roused an inmate, it is some withered, sad-faced old dame, who is indifferent and hopelessly deaf, or a bare-footed, stupid urchin, who stares as if you had dropped from another planet, and a cool "Dunno" is the sole response to all inquiries. All seems at a dead standstill.
All about the chamber were baths fashioned of bronze, and in the baths lay dusky shapes of dark-skinned men of Egypt. There they lay, and in the faint light their limbs were being anointed by some sad-faced attendants, as folk were anointed by merry girls in the shining baths of the Wanderer's home.
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