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He met her soft grey eyes, already moist and shining with a tenderness of love beyond belief, and gazed into them with what degree of sternness he could. "Miriam," he said solemnly, "is it possible that you do not want us to be as gods?" Her answer came this time without hesitation.
I spoke thus harshly to her, and coldly, when my heart was almost breaking the while. "And is that all you have got to say to me, Frank?" she said, still in the same dear, tender, entreating voice, and with glistening eyes. My sternness was nearly melted; but I continued to hold out and stand upon my dignity. "I have nothing more to add, Miss Clyde," I said, with another Grandisonian bow.
In these latter days he had shown much kindness to the girls, a kindness that was more akin to the gentleness of love than had ever come from him before. Lily's fate had seemed to melt even his sternness, and he had striven to be tender in his words and ways. And now he spoke as though he had loved the girls, and had loved them in vain.
He was a man of about fifty, short, thin, wiry, square-shouldered; his features firm even to sternness, and hardened by exposure to wind and weather; his hair gray; his beard also gray and clipped short. The harshness of his face, however, was in a measure tempered by the look of his eyes; these were calm and contemplative, perhaps even with a shade of melancholy in them.
"You wish to take me to task?" he asked. "I do," said Archie decidedly. "For what in particular? The innocent deception practised upon an equally innocent public? Or for something more serious than that?" There was an unmistakable ring of sternness behind Wingarde's deliberately scoffing tone. Archie answered him instantly, with the quickness of a man who fights for his honour.
Could they revive the past so vividly, that Plantagenet in a moment resumed his ancient place in her affections? No, it was not that: it was less the tenderness of the past that made Venetia mourn her mother's sternness to Cadurcis, than the feelings of the future. For now she felt that her mother's heart was not more changed towards this personage than was her own.
He saw me, and his sternness partly relaxed. Something like a smile struggled through his grim lineaments. It was like looking on the Jungfrau after having seen Mont Blanc, a trifle, only a trifle less sublime and awful. Resting his hand lightly on the shoulder of the headmaster, who shuddered and collapsed under his touch, he strode toward me. His walk was peculiar.
When we say that a building is sublime or graceful, frivolous or stern, we mean that sublimity or grace, frivolity or sternness, is inherent in it. The emotions connected with these qualities are inspired in us when we contemplate it, and are presented to us by its form.
She felt an impending sense of danger, but lacked the resolution to flee. "Miss Loring," said Hendrickson, his unsteady voice betraying his inward agitation, "when I last saw you" "Sir!" There was a sudden sternness in the young girl's voice, and a glance of warning in her eye. But the visitor was not to be driven from his purpose. "It is not too late, Jessie Loring!" He spoke with eagerness.
That she might guess his thought he held out his arms. "Come along English wife!" It had been their private password. But her small teeth imprisoned her lip. "No King of me Indian wife: making too much trouble again!" "Lilámani! How dare you! Come here." His attempt at sternness took effect.
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