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Updated: June 10, 2025
It was bare save for the photographs, in cheap frames, of two stolid-looking lads, whom he vaguely remembered. "Those your boys?" he asked kindly, and then, making an effort of memory of which he felt harmlessly proud, he said: "Let me see, one was Peter and the other was Paul, eh? I hope they're all right, Mrs. Cobbett?" "In a sense, sir," she said apathetically. "I do believe they are.
Without waiting for the manager, who paused at the rear entrance to impress his final instructions upon a stolid-looking property-man, she turned quickly into the noisy thoroughfares.
Wooden soldiers and stolid-looking horses with conventional tails, all fresh from the deft and cunning hands which wielded the harmless jack-knife, were piled helter-skelter in a big basket waiting, waiting, waiting, for the end of the war, to go forth in peace and goodwill to the ends of the earth and nestle snugly in the bottom of Christmas stockings.
"Got some signal, you bet!" said the driver; "some yeller paper or piece o' joss stick in the road. What?" The remark was addressed to the passenger who had just placed his finger on his lip, and indicated a stolid-looking Chinaman, overlooked before, who was sitting in the back or "steerage" seat. "Oh, he be darned!" said the driver impatiently.
The culprit, who was a very sullen, stolid-looking, full-bred negro, refused to answer the questions put to him on the subject, and certainly manifested a careless indifference to consequences that was not in his favour; his fierce scowl denoting great ferocity, in all probability induced by long ill-treatment.
Atwood and her daughter Susan put on the table in a haphazard manner, taking it from the adjacent stove as fast as it was ready. A stolid-looking hired man sat opposite to Roger, and shovelled in his food with his knife, with a monotonous assiduity that suggested a laborer filling a coal-bin.
Never before had Amphillis seen any one change as Perrote had changed now. The quiet, stolid-looking woman had become an inspired prophetess. It was manifest that she dearly loved her mistress, and was proportionately indignant with the son who treated her so cruelly. "Child," she said to Amphillis, "she lived for nought save that boy!
"Strange that summer skies and sunshine Never seem one half so fair, As when winter's snowy pinions Shake the white down in the air." Why don't you live in the present? 'Don't preach, said Clare carelessly; 'it's too warm this morning to argue. Here comes that lazy man at last! Elfie sprang down and seized the letters with a bright nod of welcome to the stolid-looking postman.
"He's just dear," said Norah, parting reluctantly from the huge swaying brute and giving him a final pat as she went. "Better than Bobs?" asked her father. "Pooh!" said Norah loftily. "What's this rum thing?" "A wildebeest," read her father. "He doesn't look like it." "Pretty tame beast, I think," Norah observed, surveying the stolid-looking animal before her.
A porter took her trunk, and she followed closely at his heels, sometimes almost running for fear of losing sight of him, and feeling frightened as she was pushed about by the swaying crowd through which she did not know how to pass. "I was recommended here by Me. Roussel," she hastened to say when she was in the hôtel office. The landlady, a big, stolid-looking woman, was sitting at the desk.
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