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He ran out as excitedly as he had entered, and the men stopped work by common consent, and struggled into their coats. 'It's bad enough, said one of them, 'to work for two-thirds money even when you get it. Nobody else said anything. The dyspeptic foreman drew a case out of a rack near the wall, and sat down upon it. The rest hung about dispiritedly, and waited for what might transpire.
The wind blew chill from out the north and they were facing it; the trail they followed was frozen hard and the gray clouds above promised snow. The cheek-bones of Dill were purple and the point of his long nose was very red. Tears stood in his eyes, whipped there by the biting wind. "How far are we now from town?" he asked dispiritedly. "Only about five miles," Billy cheered.
"That was awfully decent of you, Madge, to square things with Mrs. Gorman like that. I appreciate it, I assure you." "It was nothing," I said dispiritedly. I felt suddenly tired and old. "But I wish you would do something for me, Dicky." "Name it, and it is yours," Dicky spoke grandiloquently. "Take me home. We can see the harbor another time. I really feel too tired to do any more today."
Schwartz as the child awoke for an instant on the way to the gate, insured sound slumber. The joggling of the car did not rouse the tiny sleeper; as he lay snugly between the feet of the man into whose care he had been given. The first six miles of the easy journey were soon traversed. Then, with a pop and a dispiritedly swishing sound, a rear tire collapsed. Out into the road jumped both men.
I don't know, I'm sure," said Marjorie dispiritedly. She knew that she would tell Lucille all about it in two more minutes, and she did not want to. "No, darling! Did he bring the perfume?" "I don't know," said Marjorie. "Lucille, you haven't had your bath yet." "Did you light the hot water for me?" "No, I forgot," said Marjorie. "All right, I'll light it," said Lucille amiably.
He's done me, and I'll have to stay done." Hiram tapped the ashes from his cigar, musingly surveyed his diamond ring, and at last said: "I ain't a butter-in. But any time you get ready to holler for advice from friends, just holler." "I holler," said the Cap'n, dispiritedly. "Holler heard by friends," snapped Hiram, briskly. "Friends all ready with results of considerable meditation.
'Shalt be beaten. He strode across to the basting range and gripped a great ladle, his brown eyes glinting, and stood caressing his thin chin passionately. She folded her arms complacently. 'Husband, she said, 'it is well that wives be beaten when they have merited it. But, till I have, I have seven cooks and five knaves to bear my part. Udal's hand fell suddenly and dispiritedly to his side.
Dispiritedly, without even any talk of making the best of it, without even Gloria's all-sufficing "I don't care," they went back to the house that they now knew heeded neither youth nor love only those austere and incommunicable memories that they could never share. There was a horror in the house that summer.
Billy sighed again, threaded a needle with coarse, black thread and attacked petulantly a long rent in his coat. "Darn this bushwhacking all over God's earth after a horse a man can't stay with, nor even hold by the bridle reins," he complained dispiritedly.
At one saturated village, they saw a dripping procession of people under crimson umbrellas, shouldering two rude coffins of deal boards, which were borne to the door of a church that stood by the wayside, where the train waited in a kind of moist dejection to be admitted, and to look dispiritedly after the passing diligence.
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