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The elder was broad-shouldered, sun-burnt, ruddy, and rather stern-looking; the younger, who was also the taller, was slightly made, and very active, with a bright keen grey eye, and merry smile. These were Dame Astrida's son, Sir Eric de Centeville, and her grandson, Osmond; and to their care Duke William of Normandy had committed his only child, Richard, to be fostered, or brought up.
Mark felt for his dirk, which was safe in his belt, and then thought of the quiet little parsonage at home, and of the horror that would assail his mother if she could know of the perilous enterprise upon which he was bound. Then came the recollection of his grave, stern-looking father, and of what would be his feelings. "Would he say don't go?" thought Mark. The answer seemed to come at once.
We pressed our faces against the wires and stared, much as one stares in the Zoo at a cageful of newly-arrived animals that have cost a great deal of money and maybe a life or two. Fine, big men, stalwart and burned brown by the sun; stern-looking, but with that air of large contentment they wear who live much alone and out of doors; massive of jaw and forehead, moulded after a grand pattern.
He hurriedly searched the pockets of the clothing he had worn on the previous night, but in vain. "The letter is gone I have lost it!" he concluded, with a sinking heart. "But where and how? And if it is found " There was a sharp rap at the door, and as quickly it opened, without invitation. Two stern-looking men, dressed in plain clothes, stepped into the room.
They filled Fleda's mind, after they had once entered, and then nature's sympathy was again as readily given; each barren stern-looking hill in its guise of present desolation and calm expectancy seemed to echo softly, "patient continuance in well-doing." "Well," said Hugh, who entered the kitchen with her, "you have been late enough. Did you have a pleasant walk? You are pale, Fleda!"
"Room for the Duke's Grace of Brittany!" As the new arrivals entered the hall, Lady Basset came in from the opposite end. The Duke, a fine, rather stern-looking man, strode forward until he reached the dais where the family sat; and then, doffing his crowned helmet, addressed himself to Sir Godfrey Foljambe. "Sir, I give you good even.
When I told my cousin of my experience she looked puzzled, and shook her head. 'Young people nowadays always go to such extremes; but you look happy, child, and I shall not interfere with your serious views. And then my guardian arrived on the scene a tall, stern-looking man, with iron-grey hair.
Sunbeam exclaimed. "If this was the Academy, I'd make you explain the system." "If I am fortunate, I will go to the Academy when this is over. May I practice?" Sunbeam assumed a mock-fierce expression. "All right, plebe. Recite!" A stern-looking Sunbeam Yamata seemed so incongruous, even on short acquaintance, that Corina purred briefly in amusement. "We came in on Deck Zero, known as the Equator.
The latter was smoking a short pipe; the light of the pipe moved about in the darkness, dying away and flaring up again; for an instant it lighted up a bit of a sleeve, then a shaggy moustache and big copper-red nose, then stern-looking, overhanging eyebrows. The postman pressed down the mail bags with his hands, laid his sword on them and jumped into the cart.
"It is unnecessary. Say that I have a message to him from friends at Madrid." The servant disappeared, and in another moment his place was occupied by a grave, stern-looking man, between fifty and sixty years of age. "I am Count Villabuena," said he; "what is your business?"
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