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Some began with their pangas to hew a way to the water through the dense thicket that had kept it sweet; others sought firewood; still others began to pitch the tiny drill tents each to accommodate six men in a wide circle of which the pile of loads was the centre. As the men fell into the ordered and habitual routine their sullenness and weariness vanished.
That many terms of art and manufacture are omitted, must be frankly acknowledged; but for this defect I may boldly allege that it was unavoidable: I could not visit caverns to learn the miner's language, nor take a voyage to perfect my skill in the dialect of navigation, nor visit the warehouses of merchants, and shops of artificers, to gain the names of wares, tools and operations, of which no mention is found in books; what favourable accident, or easy enquiry brought within my reach, has not been neglected; but it had been a hopeless labour to glean up words, by courting living information, and contesting with the sullenness of one, and the roughness of another.
'Your kind enquiries after my affairs, and your generous offers, have been communicated to me by Dr. Brocklesby. I return thanks with great sincerity, having lived long enough to know what gratitude is due to such friendship; and entreat that my refusal may not be imputed to sullenness or pride. I am, indeed, in no want. Sickness is, by the generosity of my physicians, of little expence to me.
"To-day we will go to Blackfern's and order a habit a riding-habit! Can I do more?" At this, as if by magic, whether she would or not, the lines of sadness and sullenness disappeared from Jacqueline's face; her eyes sparkled.
He had disgraced himself too much for that, and he pushed the watch from him. He kicked his feet against the chair and rudely exclaimed: "Don't want your watch!" In some ways Dr. Redfield was not different from most of us. So many years had passed since he was a little boy that he had forgotten that what appears to be only sullenness may in reality be something quite different.
'Oh dear! Jane recognised a situation which had already come under her notice once or twice during the last six months She drew near, and asked in a low voice: 'What's happened, Mrs. Byass? 'He's a beast! If he doesn't mind I shall go and leave him. I mean it! Bessie was in a genuine fit of sullenness.
Its dog Ching was asleep on the mat of the portico to the saloon bar; a Chinese animal, in colour and mane resembling a lion whose dignity has become sullenness through diminution. He could doze there all day, and never scare away a chance customer. None would come.
Nothing more could be read in his face, for there was Trampas himself in the open door. "Good morning," said Trampas, not looking at us. He spoke with the same cool sullenness of yesterday. We returned his greeting. "I believe I'm late in congratulating you on your promotion," said he. The Virginian consulted his watch. "It's only half afteh six," he returned. Trampas's sullenness deepened.
His face was covered almost to his eyes with a curly brown beard that he kept trimmed short with a pocket-knife, and that had furnished him with his /nom de route/. Light-blue eyes, full of sullenness, fear, cunning, impudence, and fawning, witnessed the stress that had been laid upon his soul. The saloon was small, and in its atmosphere the odours of meat and drink struggled for the ascendancy.
This lovely, mature woman, wearing scarcely a trace of the young girl he had never forgotten scarcely a trace save in the beauty of her eyes and hair save in the full, red mouth, sweet and sensitive even in its sudden sullenness? "Once," he said, and his voice sounded to him like voices heard in dreams "once, years and years ago, there was a steamer, and a man and a young girl on board.
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