His brother Silas had dropped in abject terror on the jailer's chair; the miserable wretch shook and shuddered dumbly, like a cowed dog.
Miss Meadowcroft returned with us to the farm, preserving unbroken silence on the way back.

I could detect nothing in her bearing which suggested any compassionate feeling for the prisoners in her stern and secret nature.

On Naomi's withdrawal to her own room, we were left together for a few minutes; and then, to my astonishment, the outwardly merciless woman showed me that she, too, was one of Eve's daughters, and could feel and suffer, in her own hard way, like the rest of us.
She suddenly stepped close up to me, and laid her hand on my arm.
"You are a lawyer, ain't you ?" she asked.
"Yes." "Have you had any experience in your profession ?" "Ten years' experience." "Do _you_ think--" She stopped abruptly; her hard face softened; her eyes dropped to the ground.

"Never mind," she said, confusedly.

"I'm upset by all this misery, though I may not look like it.