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Their first purpose was no more than only the satisfaction of breathing a freer air, and of conversing in quiet one with another, without being engaged in the passions and madness of that dismal Age.
"I'm afraid this is rather a serious matter," said Dismal Jones. "Oh, don't begin to croak!" cried Rattleton. "Merriwell knows his business. Hurry up with your makeup. Can't tell how early the sophs will call." So the boys hastened to complete their disguise, and a decidedly savage-looking band they were when all was completed. Frank surveyed them with satisfaction.
To drop, however, this satirical strain: those who know what quarantine is, may fancy that the place somehow becomes unbearable in which it has been endured. They were not all there. The Giver of life and death had removed two of our company: one was left behind to die in Egypt, with a mother to bewail his loss, another we buried in the dismal lazaretto cemetery.
I seemed to have awakened from a beautiful dream, and fallen into a dismal nightmare. In the smoking-room of the club the first person I saw was my friend the Viscount, who was sitting just where I had left him on the night we started for Venus, with his glass of toddy before him, and a cigar between his lips. "Hallo!" he exclaimed on seeing me.
I have a confused remembrance of hunting and being hunted, in a midnight forest, and of a deadly combat in a dark chamber, from which I seemed to wake to find myself here." "Thy destiny has, indeed, been nearly accomplished, and that thou art the survivor of the party with which thou didst invade the Dismal Swamp is owing to this widow woman," said the good father in the patient's own tongue.
Then waving the pair aside, without listening to their thanks or the acclamations of the crowd, he passed on. As we went down the ravine by which we had approached the village on the previous night, a sound of chanting struck our ears. Presently the path turned, and we saw a solemn procession advancing up that dismal, sunless gorge.
A pleasant piece of news that was to be read next day in the papers by those who contributed to place that lifeboat on the coast; for nine souls saved implies many more souls gladdened and filled with unutterable gratitude to Almighty God. But "Twenty lost!" A dismal piece of news this to those at whose door the murders will lie till the day of doom.
He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal, universal hiss. When Arundel arrived at the little settlement, he proceeded straightway to the hostelry, which was his usual stopping place, and as he entered, was met by the landlord with those demonstrations of welcome, wherewith the publican is in the habit of greeting his customers.
Anyway, they can't get in the way much. We'll stick 'em in the back seat." "Come on, then. Let's eat and get going." Rick showered and dressed hurriedly, and got downstairs just in time to take his seat at the breakfast table. After bidding the family good morning, he turned to Jan. "Shah and Dismal had a fight this morning." Jan put a hand to her mouth. "Oh! Shah didn't hurt him, did he?"
He opened an abyss at her feet, and in deadly alarm of him she exclaimed: 'Oh! not yet; not immediately. She trembled, she made her petition dismal by her anguish of speechlessness. 'There will be such . . . not yet! Perhaps later. They must not be troubled yet at present. I am . . . I cannot pray, delay! 'But you are mine! said Alvan. 'You feel it as I do. There can be no real impediment?
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