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And, all the time, something was humming and crooning like a witch hushing little children to sleep; and in the midst of the charred and smouldering embers a buzzing and a fizzing was going on continually, like the noise made by an imprisoned bee; and the pent-up blast howled dismally down the chimney: Hoo! hoo! hoo! "They are dancing and singing outside there!" murmured the headsman to himself.
"Yah-h-h!" came in a groan, for as the words left the boy's lips there was a violent ebullition where the great serpent or whatever it was had been playing, the beautiful ripple of the shoal of fish died out, and in the fast-fading light of the evening the sea all around lay gleaming and grey, as it gently heaved, with no other movement now. "Oh, what a pity we were so long," said Rodd dismally.
And as she looked out on the sea from her narrow window, it seemed to her dismally gray, moaning, restless, and dreary. Seek not for others to love you, But seek yourself to love them best, And you shall find the secret true, Of love and joy and rest. To lack beauty was a much more serious misfortune in the Middle Ages than at present.
It carried him back, upon the instant, to a certain fair day in a fishers' village: a gray day, a piping wind, a crowd upon the street, the blare of brasses, the booming of drums, the nasal voice of a ballad singer; and a boy going to and fro, buried over head in the crowd and divided between interest and fear, until, coming out upon the chief place of concourse, he beheld a booth and a great screen with pictures, dismally designed, garishly colored: Brownrigg with her apprentice; the Mannings with their murdered guest; Weare in the death grip of Thurtell ; and a score besides of famous crimes.
"I didn't know her being here made such a lot of difference till she got away," he said dismally. "There's nobody to laugh, now, when I make a joke." "Don't the rest of us laugh at your jokes, son?" inquired the Philosopher, laying a friendly hand upon the Lad's arm as the boy stood on the porch step below him. "You do if she does," replied Lad.
'Got no more, was the rueful answer, with an accordant shake of the head. 'Let me make sure. You know what you've got to do. Turn all your pockets inside out, and leave 'em so! cried the person of the house. He obeyed. And if anything could have made him look more abject or more dismally ridiculous than before, it would have been his so displaying himself.
"I think the lake is in that direction," announced Whopper, after a painful pause. "Maybe you are right I don't know." There seemed to be no sense in standing still, with the snow coming down thicker every minute and the wind whistling dismally all around them. On they went, for at least a quarter of a mile further.
My beautiful book was gone too ravished from my grasp by the dressy lady, who joined in the outburst of denunciation as heartily as if she had been a relative and naught was left me but to blubber dismally, awakened of a sudden to the harshness of real things and the unnumbered hostilities of the actual world.
The broad interminable perspective of the East India Dock Road, the great perspective of drab brick walls, of grey pavement, of muddy roadway rumbling dismally with loaded carts and vans lost itself in the distance, imposing and shabby in its spacious meanness of aspect, in its immeasurable poverty of forms, of colouring, of life under a harsh, unconcerned sky dried by the wind to a clear blue.
'You have been doing them. Taking an interest in the farms, I mean and all that. 'Well, but Elizabeth's brow puckered. Then she broke into a frank laugh 'After all, that wasn't what I was engaged for, was it? 'No but you seemed to like to do it. And it's war-work, said Pamela, inexorably. Elizabeth was dismally conscious of her own apparent inconsistencies. It seemed best to be frank.
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