There were other guests and the countess talked little to him, and only as he kissed her hand on taking leave said unexpectedly and in a whisper, with a strangely
unsmiling face: "Come to dinner tomorrow...
I could remember the elated feeling and the soul-gripping cold of those tramway journeys taken into town to put what in diplomatic language is called pressure upon the good Hudig, with his warm fire, his armchair, his big cigar, and the never-failing suggestion in his good-natured voice: "I suppose in the end it is you they will appoint captain before the ship sails?" It may have been his extreme good-nature, the serious,
unsmiling good-nature of a fat, swarthy man with coal-black moustache and steady eyes; but he might have been a bit of a diplomatist, too.
Unsmiling, his face was rather sad and absent in expression, not unlike the melancholy, inscrutable hero of Anne's own early dreams; but mirth and humor and charm lighted it up when he smiled.
Frances, I fear, suffered much; a continual weight seemed to oppress her spirits; I have said she did not live in the house, and whether in her own abode, wherever that might be, she wore the same preoccupied,
unsmiling, sorrowfully resolved air that always shaded her features under the roof of Mdlle.
There was always an undertaker-looking servant along, too, who handed us a program, pointed to the picture that began the list of the salon he was in, and then stood stiff and stark and
unsmiling in his petrified livery till we were ready to move on to the next chamber, whereupon he marched sadly ahead and took up another malignantly respectful position as before.
The men we met walked past slow,
unsmiling, with downcast eyes, as if the melancholy of an over-bur- dened earth had weighted their feet, bowed their shoulders, borne down their glances.
And Sir Ethelred, hearing it on the lips of his wife and girls every day (mostly at breakfast-time), had conferred upon it the dignity of
unsmiling adoption.
Bradley was mad, and so he spoke in a very low, calm voice while a half-smile played across his lips but his cold, gray eyes were
unsmiling.
They sat about it, an
unsmiling, sunburnt company of very few words indeed.
A straight back and
unsmiling face suggest she's more camera-aware than her husband.
Please come to Huddersfield, Boris, where there are a lot of
unsmiling faces and where the bus services are a constant cause of complaint.
