But the other looked as gloomy as a Spaniard, and kept his eyes fixed on Modeste as though he would like to swallow her whole.

If he had even looked at me I should have been afraid of him." "He had a pleasant voice," said Madame Mignon.
"No doubt he came to Havre to inquire about the Mignons in the interests of his friend the poet," said Modeste, looking furtively at her father.
"It was certainly he whom we saw in church." Madame Dumay and Monsieur and Madame Latournelle, accepted this as the natural explanation of Ernest's journey..