Her face looked as if it were carved in marble.

Richard stood staring at her a second; then he flung out of the room, and the doors closing behind him shook the house.

Richard's manner towards his sister was sometimes full of a fierce sympathy and partisanship, sometimes of wild anger and aversion.

He looked ten years older in a few weeks.

Both he and Louis appeared to avoid the other members of the family, and kept much together, and yet even in their close companionship they also seemed to have a curious avoidance of each other; one was seldom seen to look in his brother's face, or address him directly.
One morning, a month after Burr's release, Margaret Bean came to the Hautville door.