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"I'll listen if you'll speak civil, Mick," she said. "What is it you've got to say?" She spoke quietly but sternly, and he seemed frightened. He had evidently been drinking more than of late, and Tim shuddered at the thought of what might happen if he were to get into one of his regular tipsy fits while the children were still there.
He looked so very sternly, that my heart failed me as twice or thrice I would have addressed myself to him: nothing but solemn silence on all hands having passed before. At last, I asked, if it were his pleasure that I should pour him out another dish? He answered me with the same angry monosyllable, which I had received from my mother before; and then arose, and walked about the room.
William's eye travelled sternly from her Titian curls to her bare feet. He assumed a threatening attitude and scowled fiercely. "You better not say that again," he said darkly. "Why not?" she said with a jeering laugh. "Well, you'd just better not," he said with a still more ferocious scowl. "What'd you do?" she persisted. He considered for a moment in silence.
"One moment!" exclaimed Gerfaut, as he arose; "you refuse to give me one word which will assure me of the fate of the woman whose life I have ruined?" "I have nothing to say." "Very well, then; I will protect her, and I will do it in spite of you and against you." "Not another word," interrupted the Baron, sternly.
"What, a sermon?" asked one of Pritchen's gang, who was getting restless and anxious for something exciting to happen. "Mebbe a few sarmons wouldn't hurt ye," and Sol fixed his eye sternly upon the young man. "As I was a-sayin'," he continued, "I want to tell yez somethin'. When I was fust married me an' Annie were as happy as any couple in oh, well, ye'd better not know whar.
Then, looking sternly in the old man's face, he added in a bitter tone: "Perhaps you are the traitor who has poisoned his mind against me. If so, speak out. I do not fear you. I defy your malice." "Bold words, Master George, and boldly spoken. But facts are hard things to disprove." Then, going close up to the lad, he said in a cool, deliberate tone, "I saw you take the money out of that box."
Bah! She must have known he was married, for why else did he not marry her? Do you think me a child to be fooled by such a tale?" "No," answered I sternly, looking away from her at Noemi. "You are not a child, madame, but she is one! Had she been a woman like yourself, your husband would never have deceived her. She trusted him wholly."
"We will hear all that at Stagholme," said Jem sternly, and Mark Ruthine merely looked at him over the top of a newspaper which he was not reading. To thine own self be true; And it must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man. Human nature is, after all, a hopeless failure. Not even the very best instinct is safe.
'My business is to speak with you, I answered rather sternly; for this man, who was nothing more than Uncle Reuben's servant, had carried things too far with me, showing no respect whatever; and though I did not care for much, I liked to receive a little, even in my early days.
'I am a minister's son, he reminded himself sternly. He lifted the bottle above his head, and with his eye selected a nice rough rock half way down the bank. 'Watch the bubbles, he called to me. "'Hay, mister, interposed a voice, 'gimme half a dollar an' I'll show you a whole pile of 'em that ain't broke.
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