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Long before six o'clock, however, the suspicion in Aunt Polly's eyes became conviction, and drove to ignominious defeat the puzzled questioning. But, curiously enough then, a new look came to take its place, a look that was actually a twinkle of amusement. At last, after a particularly doleful complaint on Pollyanna's part, Aunt Polly threw up her hands with a gesture of half-laughing despair.
He looked so terribly shabby and spoke in such a doleful voice that it occurred to Duvillard to do one of those good actions on which he ventured at times when they were likely to prove remunerative investments. It is, indeed, an excellent plan to give a crust of bread to some poor devil whom one can turn, if necessary, into a valet or an accomplice.
From the kitchen, at intervals, came up doleful snatches of "Then you'll remember me," interrupted by hiccoughs, and with involuntary variations and cadenzas that would have driven "Balfy" mad. All was ready and they drove off. The house wherein had lived a Benefactor of Mankind was deserted. Greenleaf found a carriage for Mrs.
He was nailing up this box one afternoon, and humming as he did so, "But I alone am left to pine, And sit beneath the withy tree, For truth and honesty be gone" when the painter came in behind him. "Stop that doleful strain, Giotto, I beg; you've been painfully sentimental the last day or two." "It's an old song they sing about here, sir," said Jan.
The grey friars prayed with a doleful face, But bold Robin prayed with a right merry grace, Singing, hey down, ho down, down, derry down: And when they had prayed, their portmanteau he took, And from it a hundred good angels he shook, All on the fallen leaves so brown.
Some of them were mature maidens of thirty years; some were young wives who had reached that stage of feminine dissolution when women cease to curl their front hair and permit their short back locks to hang down in a doleful fringe upon the back of their necks. The majority of them, however, were elderly matrons.
It seemed even to affect the nerves of the bearers, for one of them exclaimed: "It is that cur again, who has left the marks of his teeth in my hand. If I could but get near him with my cudgel, he should never howl again." "I thought we had rid ourselves of the brute, but he must have followed us. A plague upon his doleful voice! They say that it bodes ill to hear a dog's howl at night.
Somewhere out in the gloom coyotes chattered and yelped, and from far across the dusky valley others answered a doleful tenson. I dozed. Frank awoke us all with a shout. We leaped up and stared blinkingly into the north. That whole region of the sky was aflame from zenith to horizon with spectral fires. It was the aurora.
"Heave-ho, lads, she's one to please ye Bess will kiss an' Bess will " "Oho, Jerry Jeremy ahoy haul your wind, lad; bear up, Jerry, an' let Dick come 'longside ye, lad !" and here the poor wretch, from singing and dancing, falls to doleful wailing with gush of tears and bitter sobs.
It was a miserable, heart-breaking tramp, one which might have caused a less plucky lad to sit down and give way to doleful helplessness. Even Ralph felt an uncanny sense of utter loneliness, and he upbraided his own stupidity, as he chose to call it, in wandering so far afield. At last he noticed a faint roaring noise at the right, and he turned in that direction, blindly, aimlessly.
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