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The change in her expression, however, as she recognised her visitor, was instantaneous. A delightful smile of welcome chased away the sombreness of her face. "My dear man," she exclaimed, "come and sit down and help me to forget that annoying person who has just gone out!" Tallente smiled. "Miller is not one of your favorites, then?"
She did not turn, she did not smile, and the sombreness that was the dominant expression of her face was strange to see in a girl of her age. "Well " Kingsmead's small countenance, so different from hers in its look of palpitating interest and curiosity, suddenly flushed a deep and a beautiful red. "I say, old girl," he broke out, "are you going to?"
"I fear nothing," I answered with a smile; yet the still sombreness of the woods found a little tremor in my breast. "It is good," he answered, regarding me. "The angel spoke truth. Follow, Monsieur." He went off through the trees of a sudden, and I had much ado to keep pace with him. He ran as one urged on by a sure sense of doom, looking neither to right nor left.
James's with such glittering eyes and carmine lips a soupçon of wantonness in their glances, and a rather needless undraping of their beautiful shoulders; while the painter to the Prince was bestowing on the giddy angels of Carlton House a decency that was within a little of dull, a simplicity that was almost sombreness, a purity that was prudery!
They were eyes that masked the soul with a thousand guises, and that sometimes opened, at rare moments, and allowed it to rush up as though it were about to fare forth nakedly into the world on some wonderful adventure, eyes that could brood with the hopeless sombreness of leaden skies; that could snap and crackle points of fire like those which sparkle from a whirling sword; that could grow chill as an arctic landscape, and yet again, that could warm and soften and be all a-dance with love-lights, intense and masculine, luring and compelling, which at the same time fascinate and dominate women till they surrender in a gladness of joy and of relief and sacrifice.
There was an undercurrent of sombreness in the man's manner that frightened her. "I guess I'll jest have t' keep on dreamin' of that boy playin' with th' roses." "No, no," cried Kate; "he will come true some day! I know he'll come true." Peter got up and stood by her chair. "You don't know nothin' about it," he said. "You don't know, an' you can't know what it's bin t' me t' talk with you.
In the quiet night the young man stood resting from his labors, and taking depressed thought. He was covered with grime and streaked with sweat; a ragged red stripe on his cheek, where a board had bounced up and struck him, detracted nothing from the sombreness of his appearance.
"Gracious, Kitty, where do you get all these stories from?" cried Ashe, when the chatter paused for a moment. He looked at her with delight, rejoicing in her gayety, the slight touches of white which to-day for the first time relieved the sombreness of her dress, the return of her color. And Margaret wondered again how much of it was rouge.
Its colors, though less gorgeous than those of autumn, are the most restful and quiet in their tone and feeling. Those grays and browns, huddling together in silent lines side by side, are full of peaceful beauty as they rest upon the white snow or up against uncertain skies. I like a gray atmosphere relieved by silver birches, just enough sombreness set off by cheerfulness.
Two or three photographs of the heads of great singers and musicians were the sole decorations of the walls; a pile of music and some books lay on the table. The place had a severely business-like air; and yet its very simplicity and the sombreness of its tints had hitherto always given Hubert, who knew the room, a sense of pleasure.
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