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"I was trying to, while that chap was talking. But it's somebody that's got in before us. Not Rathbury, anyhow he's not serious-faced. Heavens, Breton, however are you going to find your way in this darkness?" "You'll see presently. We follow the road a little. Then we turn up the fell side there.
Lyte is the serious-faced young man standing arguing with his little knot of flag-waggers. He has just realised that one mistake has already been made in the campaign, for, in the enthusiasm of youth, he brought bicycles to Petewawa.
So they taught, read, sang, wandered along the wood-paths in search of new beauties to charm their Northern eyes; rode together whenever Lucy could be persuaded to mount Nimbus' mule, which, despite its hybrid nature, was an excellent saddle-beast; entertained with unaffected pleasure the officers who came to cheer their loneliness; and under the care of their faithful old "Mammy" and the oversight of a kind-hearted, serious-faced Superintendent, who never missed Red Wing in his monthly rounds, they kept their oddly transformed home bright and cheerful, their hearts light and pure, and their faith clear, daily thanking God that they were permitted to do what they thought to be His will.
Carroll had not yet learnt to take care of herself even, a very heavy burden rested on little serious-faced Esther. It was better when the summer came, though, for then the family made another move.
There was no time for further musing. The newly-invested High-priest was speaking: "Bring hither the 'Torah' Roll of the Law." A serious-faced young Jew, a praying shawl over his head, bore towards the High-Priest the parchment scroll loosely-cased in a silken slip-off. As he bore the sacred roll he reverently kissed the tassels of the drawstring of the silken slip.
They are a' on the road to be maisters. Malcolm is a clever loon but he has a wee bee in his bonnet." The old lady smiled quizzically at her big, serious-faced son. "Noo, mither, ye're just talkin' havers," he said. "My mother is as great a Socialist as I am." "Ay, but A keep ma heid." "That ye do, mither.
And she looked at us with folded arms, with an extraordinary fulness of assumed responsibility. I addressed her. "You don't believe in an accident, Mrs Fyne, do you?" She shook her head in curt negation while, caked in mud and inexpressibly serious-faced, Fyne seemed to be backing her up with all the weight of his solemn presence. Nothing more absurd could be conceived. It was delicious.
She led him through the adjoining room and to the curtained doorway of a library long, alcoved, shelved with books, and furnished with heavy leather chairs. In the center was a large table of polished mahogany, upon which rested a reading-lamp. The glow of this lamp illuminated the forms and faces of a group of serious-faced men two seated, the others standing.
In another minute the gong sounded, the great doors at the opposite end of the hall opened, a train of serious-faced gentry entered, and as unceremoniously took seats. Mr. Smooth being put down number one, took a seat beside the missus. After a blessing had been dispensed, the conversation turned on politics and potatoes.
He looked self-consciously into the faces of the family, who were smiling at his fears; then, with a queer expression on his face, as if he, too, knew it was funny, he went to the family altar, pushed aside the embossed velvet cover, and lay down under the table. The children laughed, Tom Jennings and Frank, a lanky, handsome, serious-faced lad smiled. Mac always did this in a thunderstorm.
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