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Tardily and dolefully he crept into the house; and Miss Fosbrook met him, looking so woe-begone, that she too thought he had hurt himself. She took him, dirt and all, on her lap; and there he sobbed out that Papa wouldn't speak to Hal, and it was very dreadful; and he wished there were no such things as pigs, or money, or secrets; they only made people miserable!
"I'm a wet blanket," he said dolefully. "Every time Angela laughs I want to cry, and yet I ought to be thankful that old Thorpe can give her what I can't." "He's doing the thing well," said Ajax meaningly. "He has been left a bit more money. Didn't he tell you? No? And he's going to buy that big tract to the north-west of us. Mum's the word, but between ourselves the agreement is signed."
The bank shelved gradually down to the river, which at this point was narrow, and between them and the other shore stretched a mixture of snow and ice; she could distinguish the flat-bottomed boat used for ferrying purposes stuck fast almost in the middle of the stream. "How are we to cross?" said Mrs. Seymour dolefully, looking down at her feet.
As we were standing by the chimney, reflecting dolefully how we should pass the coming night, he came up and said; "I am in trouble about you, poor fellows! I don't think I shall sleep three hours to-night, to think of you. I shall tell all the cabin they shall give you beds, because they shall see you are gentlemen!"
"Your mamma sent you to the store?" she interpreted and Yetta nodded dolefully. "And did you give her my message about that last week? Did you tell her that she must send you to school before nine o'clock?" Again Yetta nodded, silent and resigned, evidently a creature bound upon the wheel, heart broken but uncomplaining.
The children walked back across the fields and through the woods not talking much, but thinking of all that Una had told them until they came to the gap in the fence and saw that it had been boarded up. "Oh, Una, look!" cried Tom. "We shan't have any more picnics," said Norah dolefully. Dan leant out of his small carriage and put his hand into Una's with a happy little laugh.
This desponding wail was doubtless heard when the young earth had scarcely commenced her career of glory, and it will be dolefully repeated by future generations to the end of time.
As the day wore on, one could guess that a great centre of government and trade was near at hand; the traffic was continuous, coolies bent almost double under their heavy burdens, laden barrows creaking dolefully as they moved, foot travellers plodding wearily along, groups of wild Tibetans from the distant frontier, gorgeous mandarins returning from an inspection tour, all were hurrying towards the capital.
Once, Grace, who sat beside the Little Captain in the roadster, sighed rather dolefully and Betty looked at her out of the corner of her eye. "Do you feel that way too, Gracie?" the latter asked. "What way?" asked Grace uncertainly. "That sigh, do you mean?" "Yes," nodded Betty. "You sounded rather mournful and that is exactly the way I feel. What's the matter with us, anyway?
"I don't mind," she said hastily. "But you would have preferred 'beloved'?" "It is such a sweet name." "Surely not so sweet as the other, Grizel?" "No," she said, "no." "Have you destroyed it?" he asked, and the question was a shock to her. Her hand rose instinctively to defend something that lay near her heart. "I could not," she whispered. "Do you mean you wanted to?" he asked dolefully.
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