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Wrandall's sitting-room at the top of the broad stairway, sat the family, that is to say, the IMMEDIATE family, a solemn-faced footman in front of the door that stood fully ajar so that the occupants might hear the words of the minister as they ascended, sonorous and precise, from the hall below. A minister was he who knew the buttered side of his bread. His discourse was to be a beautiful one.
A group of hatless women stood haranguing on the Mairie steps; a good-looking girl, wearing high heels and bangles, unloaded a barrow-load of household goods into a van the Maire had provided, and hastened home with the barrow to fill it again; a sweet-faced old dame, sightless, bent with rheumatism, pathetic in her helpless resignation, sat on a wicker-chair outside her doorway, waiting for a farm cart to take her away: by her side, a wide-eyed solemn-faced little girl, dressed in her Sunday best, and trying bravely not to cry.
"What do you think of this place, Lizzie?" she asked the solemn-faced girl. "For the land's sake, Miss!" drawled Lizzie Bean, "I never had no idea the woods was so lonesome for a fac'." "No?" "I sh'd say not! I went to bed and lay there an' listened. The trees creaked, and the crickets twittered, and some bird had the nightmare an' kep' cryin' like a baby "
When Nigel first entered the place through the great front door thrown open by the solemn-faced butler, who he learned had been kept on from his uncle's time, he felt as though he were entering his own tomb. When the door shut he shuddered as the light and sunshine vanished. The first night he hardly slept a wink.
He was the local notary, a stout, solemn-faced man, given to pompous speeches. "Master Hauchecorne," he said, "you were seen this morning, on the Beuzeville road, to pick up the wallet lost by Master Huelbrèque of Manneville." The rustic, dumfounded, stared at the mayor, already alarmed by this suspicion which had fallen upon him, although he failed to understand it.
'Thanks awfully, said Ken and Roy in one breath, and hurried off at once. The cook, a lean, solemn-faced man named Lemuel Gill, showed no surprise whatever at the sudden apparition of two half-drowned strangers.
He was a solemn-faced, taciturn man, devoted to Clinton. "Mr. Belton," said the doctor, "in the serious illness of Lieutenant Clinton I now assume charge of the military guard and convicts on this ship, and as a first step to maintain proper discipline at such a critical time, I shall confine Mr. Bolger to his cabin. Sergeant, take him below and lock him in." Bolger collapsed at once.
Fechner towers above them as a man of vision. He dared to imagine. He made discoveries whew!!" he whistled, "and such discoveries!" "To which the scholars and professors of today," I suggested, "would think reply not even called for?" "Ah," he laughed, "the solemn-faced Intellectuals with their narrow outlook, their atrophied vision, and their long words! Perhaps!
Bart peered beyond the threshold. McCarthy, the night watchman, sat asleep in a chair in a corner. Darry Haven was at the desk, a spruce, solemn-faced young man beside him. "I'm here, Darry," announced Bart. Darry turned with a joyful face. It fell as he glanced beyond his young employer to the empty platform. "No trunk!" he murmured in a low, disappointed tone.
She explained that though it might be a man's duty to die for his country, it was quite another thing to imperil a valuable life on a mere game; but she could make no impression on the solemn-faced captain. "But it is an uncommonly good game, don't you know," he persisted; and Bessie gave up the point, for Captain Broughton's mind seemed as wooden as his face.
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