A hint from Coronado had warned the borderer that here was a person whom it might be necessary some day to get rid of.

The officer responded to this ferocious gaze with a grim, imperious stare, such as one is apt to acquire amid the responsibilities and dangers of army life.

It was like a wolf and a mastiff surveying each other.
Thurstane advanced to Clara, helped her into her saddle, and held her hand while he urged her to be careful of herself, never to wander from the train, never to be alone, etc.

The girl turned a little pale; it was not exactly because of his anxious manner; it was because of the eloquence that there is in a word of parting.

At the moment she felt so alone in the world, in such womanish need of sympathy, that had he whispered to her, "Be my wife," she might have reached out her hands to him.