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It was a dark morning, and a cold rain beat dismally against the window-panes. Gone were the Dream Woman, the Italian garden, the song of the nightingale, the perfume of flowers. How definite that perfume had been! He could smell it yet, all around him. It was like what was it like? He became suddenly conscious of an unusual sensation in his hand, lying on the bedspread.
"You're jaundiced, dad," laughed Sue. "You're looking at the place through a yellow film of prejudice. One must enter into the spirit of the thing!" Rushford groaned. "I'm afraid I'm too set in my ways, Susie," he said, dismally. "I've lived in America too long. You might as well ask me to dance the can-can, and be done with it!" "Besides," continued Sue, "it's just as Nell says.
And his blood was still dancing with the smile she had given him; it hardly seemed possible that a girl could smile just like that and not mean anything. When he reached the level, where she was waiting for him, he saw that she had her arms around the neck of her horse, and that she was crying dismally, heart-brokenly, with an abandon that took no thought of his presence.
The monks, who had all crowded around me when I first began, in expectation of brisk jigs and lively overtures, soon took themselves away upon hearing a strain ten times more sorrowful than that to which they were accustomed. I did not lament their departure, but played dismally on till our horses came round to the gate.
"Well, Hep, you made as good a showing, after all, as could be expected with a dub team," spoke Joyce consolingly, when they met in a corridor. "It wasn't a dub team," retorted Hepson dismally. "The eleven was all right. The only trouble lay in having a dub for a captain."
These reflections upon Pagan days and classical cruelties do not disturb however the peace of an old hermit, who has chosen one of these close-concealed recesses for his habitation, and accordingly dwells, dismally enough, in a hole seldom visited by travellers, and certainly never enquired about by the natives.
"Do you mean to tell me, Frederick, that the poor thing walked all that distance in that intolerable heat?" The young man nodded dismally. "That's what they say, Annette. It makes one feel like a beast." "I don't see why you need say that, Frederick. I'm sure they ought to have done something, after the awful danger you were in."
Poor Mumford! he dismally went about under the protection of young Alfred, a fourth-form boy not one soul did he know in that rattling London ballroom; his young face as white as the large white tie, donned two hours since at the Tavistock with such nervousness and beating of heart!
"Well, my dear Scaife, how are you? We've been a little anxious, all of us, but, I ventured to predict, without cause. Tell us, my poor boy, how do you feel?" Scaife opened his eyes. Then he groaned dismally. Rutford was standing to the right of the chair and footbath. The fifth were facing Scaife. He met their anxious, admonishing glances, unable to interpret them.
She could barely remember the old white farmhouse with its faded green shutters that rattled so dismally in the piercing winds that seemed to single out the Knight house as it swept down between the hills.
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