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Her hat and furs lay ready on the bed and she sat in the long wicker chair by the window, one hand supporting her chin, while her eyes rested somberly on the fig tree in the garden. She was reluctant to go; she did not know why, except that just then, waiting for the clock to strike, she had had an eerie sort of fear of Mayer.
"Yes," he said, reclosing the box, and pacing somberly to the door to greet a new arrival. "Did you ever in all your life," said Denise Ryland, glancing about her, "see such an exhibition... of nightmares?"
Once he gazed somberly at the girl beside him and she responded with a pale questioning smile. "I have had a great misfortune," he told her. "Oh, I'm terribly, terribly sorry!" "I've lost a blessed coin that interceded for me since the first day I went in the bull ring. I'd give a thousand wax candles for its return. Now when I need everything," he continued as if to himself.
Suddenly a door communicating with the House itself opened in front of us, and Parnell came out. My uncle pressed my arm and we held back, while Parnell passed by, somberly absorbed, without betraying by the smallest movement or gesture any recognition of my uncle's identity.
There can't be any more fires till next year, anyway; there's nothing left to burn." He turned his face to the window and stared out somberly at the ravaged hillside. "Yes you're dead safe, now!" "I'm such a fool," Val confessed, her eyes also turning to the window, "If you want to go, I " Her mouth was quivering, and she did not finish the sentence. "Oh, I'll stay till Man comes.
Outside, the lawn was covered with half-melted snow and the trees raised naked, dripping branches above the drooping shrubs. Farther back the hedgerows ran somberly across the white fields, and in the distance the hills loomed, desolate and gray, against a leaden sky. "Ballin says I'd better take it easy for some time yet," Herbert informed his wife.
Across the river the ragged edges of the rock buttes that flanked the water loomed somberly; beyond them the peaks of some mountains, miles distant, glowed with the subdued radiance of a moon that was just rising. Back in the direction from which the herd had come the ridges and depressions stretched, in irregular corrugations, as far as Sanderson could see.
Caley to give General something to eat, and nothing's too good for him, either." Lettice walked to the door of the kitchen and transmitted Gordon's request to the invisible Mrs. Caley. The latter appeared after a moment and stood gazing somberly at the man and dog. She was a tall, ungainly woman, with a flat, sexless body and a deeply-lined face almost the color of her own salt-raised bread.
His own career except for his two excursions round the world, conscientiously undertaken in pursuit of knowledge had been so somberly financial that he was frankly, and somewhat naïvely, curious concerning the people who "did things" bearing little or no relation to business, and who permitted themselves sensations merely for the sake of having them.
He stood looking somberly at the set which Clements had planned to save time and therefore dollars for the Acme Company.
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