There was a spot of red in the midst of each of his sallow cheeks, and his eyes gleamed with excitement.

On leaving the mill a sudden thirst had come upon him, and he had quenched it with a glass of spirits at the first public-house he passed.

Perhaps that had some part in his elation.
Emily almost immediately withdrew and went up to her bedroom.

Here she sat alone for more than an hour, in fear lest her mother should come to the door.

Then she heard the gate open, and, looking from the window, saw her father and his friend pass into the road and walk away together, the former still talking in an excited way.