Stern in example sentence
He said to himself, in a careless tone, as he went down to the drawing-room: 'I must tell this woman that I love her.'Instead of that gaze charged with passion which he expected to meet, he found the stern face of M. de Renal, who, having arrived a couple of hours earlier from Verrieres, did not conceal his displeasure on finding that Julien was wasting the whole morning without attending to the children.