United States or Iraq ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And still aimlessly shaking his head, he sat staring at the opposite side of the ravine, the lower jaw dropping a little. 'He knows nowt about it, said David, roughly, the light of a sombre, half-reluctant curiosity, which had arisen in his look, dying down. He threw himself on the grass by the dogs, and began teasing and playing with them.
From the meaningless raving of the white, drawn lips came at last a single sentence of lucid revelation. Philip leaped and shook him roughly by the shoulder. "Carl, think! think!" he cried fiercely. "For God's sake, think! You don't know what you are saying!" But Carl repeated the statement again and again, and Philip's eyes grew sombre.
He took a sombre but agitated leave of his hostess, and went out into the twilight, cursing his lack of ease, remembering the things which he had meant to say, and hating himself for having forgotten them. Philippa, to whom his departure had been, as it always was, a relief, was already leaning forward in her chair with her arm around Helen's neck.
Generation after generation might have come, stayed, and gone, like the last soul: here last night, to-night, oh! where? I looked up at the sombre roof, dropping a little way earthward from the sides. Mosses hung from the eaves. Not one sound of life came to me as I stood until the neighbor's boy was out of sight.
Black marauders among blithe birds of peace and joy, they watched like sable spirits near the nests, or on some near sea rocks, sombre and alone, blinked evilly at the tall bright cliffs and the lightsome legions nestling there.
Now here the familiars, at sign of Fra Alexo, moved aside, and thus I beheld to my surprise and inexpressible joy, Don Federigo, pale from his late sickness, the which the sombre blackness of his rich velvet habit did but offset; for a moment his eyes met mine and with no sign of recognition, whereupon I checked the greeting on my lips.
"Make a few, and I'll be back directly when I have attended to another order," and he went away thinking Christie's face was very like the pansies they had been talking about, one of the sombre ones with a bright touch of gold deep down in the heart, for thin and pale as the face was, it lighted up at a kind word, and all the sadness vanished out of the anxious eyes when the frank laugh came.
The young braves to whom Pocahontas had been entrusted kept wisely on the outskirts of the crowd. Then the little sombre figure at Powhatan's feet rose and stood with the firelight shining on her face and dark hair and asked in a gentle voice: "Didst thou want me, mine uncle?" "Pocahontas," exclaimed Opechanchanough, "how camest thou here ahead of us, and in that dark robe?"
It is so easy. Although Protestant, Fanny is of Jewish origin that is to say, the descendant of a persecuted race which in consequence has developed by the side of the inherent defects of a proscribed people the corresponding virtues, the devotion, the abnegation of the woman who feels that she is the grace of a threatened hearth, the sweet flower which perfumes the sombre prison."
I am anxious that is to say, we all are to have the ceremony over as soon as it possibly can. She will then feel better, of course." Dr. Sombre, seeing that one of the necessary audience to his little homily had disappeared, seemed rather disappointed, but addressed himself to Roberts upon a very different subject. "I dare say," said he, "we shall have a very capital dejeuner to-day."
Word Of The Day