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Dotty longed to get away; but she was an exile from her own dear home; whither could she turn? It was a cold morning, and the children ran down stairs half dressed and shivering. Dotty spread out her stiff, red fingers before the cooking-stove like the sticks of a fan. "O, hum!" thought she, drearily, "I wish I could see the red coals in our grate.
It isn't exactly an easy idea to get accustomed to. The prospect is not lively." "I dare say you will contrive to make it as lively as possible." She smiled drearily. "How very poorly you do think of me! I shan't make Ned a bad wife. He will be very happy, and Nancy and I will be like sisters. By the way, you're not in love with Nancy, are you?" "Certainly not." "Good.
"Why not be like other people?" her father was saying, making a burden to her thought. "I don't know why," drearily. "What would you have, Jenny?" taking her hand in his. "Father, I never loved but one or two people in the world. You and Bruno and not many others. I can do nothing outside of them." "Nonsense! You cannot be a law to yourself, child.
She swayed to and fro in her rocking-chair, humming drearily some melancholy air, until, by-and-by, baby, worn out, wailingly dropped off asleep again in her arms. As it did so, the door opened a second time, and the brisk young person entered with the first course. Mrs. Stanford placed her first-born back in the crib, and sat down to her solitary dinner. She ate very little.
But if Elizabeth had the inclination she controlled it. After a moment's silence she laid down her work and approached the sofa where he was lying. "Don't be severe with me, Grantley," she said, with a degree of humility unknown to the past; "my head aches drearily I don't think I am well."
"The Morrisons are spending the summer abroad. I and my family are occupying the Lodge in their absence. I eh eh I am Mr. Conant, of Dorfield." The girl sighed drearily. She was quite small, about seventeen years of age and dressed in a faded gingham over which she wore a black cloth coat that was rusty and frayed.
The architecture of the West End of London is for the most part drearily monotonous; its forms have too plainly been determined by the builder, not by the artist, tho since the restoration of art, varieties of style have been introduced, and individual beauty has been more cultivated.
"This ship is not the whole world, my lad, and all the people are not like the captain." The lad looked half wonderingly at my uncle, and then turned to me with so pitiful a look that I felt ready to take the poor fellow's part the next time he was in trouble. "Everyone nearly seems the same to me," he said drearily. "I don't know why I come to sea.
She went away with a backward, pitying glance which yet held understanding. She knew that danger and death and thirst were smaller things than shame, this wife of a King who had held hard in her day. Carter sat down and watched her drearily. He wasn't thinking now.
Shakespere's keen eye suggested many such a rescue from the tomb of a tale drearily told a tale which no one now would read save for the glorified form in which he has re-embodied its true contents.
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