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He was to learn before long, however, that moods and their resulting effect upon the spirit were part of the penalty which he must pay for the greater variety of his new life. He took a tiny bedroom somewhere Westminster way a room in a large, solemn-looking house, decayed and shabby, but still showing traces of its former splendor.
In the Madonna by Cimabue, which, if it be not the earliest after the revival of art, was one of the first in which the Byzantine manner was softened and Italianized, we have six grand, solemn-looking angels, three on each side of the throne, arranged perpendicularly one above another.
Branston felt herself independent, free to do a foolish thing, and ready to abide the hazard of her folly. So, upon the fourth day of her freedom, despairing of any visit from John Saltram, Adela Branston ordered the solemn-looking butler to send for a cab, much to the surprise of that portly individual.
My true little story opens with the skailing of the Ramshorn Kirk, a very favorite place of worship with the well-to-do burghers of the east end of the city, and it was a peculiarly douce, decent, solemn-looking crowd that slowly and reverently passed out of its gates into the absolutely silent streets.
Now this question was addressed, not to a fellow-servant, for all were at the time busily engaged elsewhere, but to a grey parrot, one of those sedate and solemn-looking birds whose remarks are generally in singular contrast to their outward gravity of demeanour. The parrot made no reply, but looked a little bewildered. "Ah, I see how it is," said Harry; "you are puzzled at so much brightness.
Then depositing her little charge with the nurse, and trying to cheer up a solemn-looking boy of three, who evidently considered his deposition from babyhood as a great injury, she tripped lightly down again, to take part in the Saturday's reading and catechising.
"You will get wet; shall I close the window?" observed a voice behind her, and Bessie started and looked round at the tall, solemn-looking young officer who had been introduced to her two hours previously as "Captain Broughton, not of ours, Miss Lambert." "Oh, no, I prefer it open, it is so warm," replied Bessie hastily. "Oh, ah, yes! Are you fond of polo?"
"Yes, an Italian, to whom my client let it for the summer season: Baron Anfredi." "Oh, Baron Anfredi! A man still young, rather grave and solemn-looking ?" "I'm sure I can't say. My client dealt with him direct. There was no regular agreement, just a letter " "But you know the baron?" "No, he never leaves the castle. Sometimes, in his motor, at night, so they say.
Here were houses that had been built in the fifteenth century, great, square, solemn-looking structures, grown grey and green with age. There were lights in a thousand windows along this misty, royal road lights that reflected the pleasures of the rich and yet caused no envy in time hearts of the loyal poor.
He'll be about having his tea; we shall take him by surprise." Presently the group stood around a door at which Mitchington knocked gently, and it was on their grave and watchful faces that a tall, clean-shaven, very solemn-looking man gazed in astonishment as he opened the door, and started back.
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