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Pale as she looked, and no wonder, there was a light in her eye and a firmness in her step very different from those of the weary-looking woman who used to roam listlessly about the gloomy galleries or sit silently working in the equally gloomy drawing-room with Miss Gascoigne and Miss Grey.
It came in the form of a hard rider; the mutter of his hoofs swept to the door, and Phil Marvin, having examined the stranger from the shuttered loophole beside the entrance, opened the door to him at once. "It's Sandy," he fired over his shoulder in explanation. A weary-looking fellow came into the room, swinging his hat to knock the dust off it, and loosening the bandanna at his throat.
'Yes, it can, he said impetuously. 'That kind of disgrace hangs on a man all his days. He has to bear the sins of others. That is where the injustice comes in. The innocent must suffer for and with the guilty always. There is no escape. Gladys sighed, and her face became pale and weary-looking. Never had life appeared so hard, so full of pain and care.
Byng rode up to the lumbering vehicle, signing to Cunningham to follow him. "General Byng," said Cunningham. "Miss McClean, sir." A very much dishevelled and very weary-looking young woman with a wealth of chestnut hair leaned through the window and smiled, not at the General but at Cunningham. Byng stared looked from one to the other of them and said "Hu-rrrr-umph!" again.
Wyatt had gone home. But Mrs. Coppered's distinguished air, her magnificent furs, her beauty, all had their effect, and presently Duncan followed her into the hot, untidy little office where the manager was to be found. He was a pleasant, weary-looking man, who wheeled about from his desk as they came in, and signed the page to place chairs. "Mr. Wyatt," said Mrs.
While Hans was hastily swallowing a mammoth mouthful in order to give a suitable reply to this poetic appeal, Dame Brinker settled the matter with a quick, "Well, roses or blood, it's all one to me, so the red finds its way on your sunny face. It's enough for mother to get pale and weary-looking without "
And the lawyer had known all that the dear, to her till then unfamiliar, word had meant to her. And now, here she was with strangers, wan, strained and unutterably weary-looking; as she stood, her hand clasped in his, looking, with dumb anguish, up into his face, Mr. Stephens felt a thrill of intense anger against John Dampier.
He was a plain, homely, sad, weary-looking man, to whom one's heart warmed involuntarily because he seemed at once miserable and kind." Mr. I used to see him at the butcher's or baker's every morning, with his basket on his arm. He was kind and sociable, and would always speak to everyone.
Good bits of carved stall work were nailed anyhow into the pews; the floor was uneven; no font was visible; there was a mouldy uncared-for look about everything. The curate in riding-boots came out of the vestry, a pale, weary-looking man, painfully meek and civil, with gray hair sleeked round his face. He 'louted low, and seemed hardly to venture on taking the hand my father held out to him.
As the peddler entered the house the wife a weary-looking woman with white hair seated herself at once in a thickly-cushioned arm-chair, and, as if loath to leave it, told the peddler that if he would put up with simple fare and a narrow berth he was welcome.
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