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Night after night I crossed the dreary mud flat, passed the same old wretched farms, and went on with the same old trench routine. We all considered the trenches a pretty rotten outfit; but every one was fully prepared to accept far rottener things than that. There was never the least sign of flagging determination in any man there, and I am sure you could say the same of the whole front.
Or she was asleep in her armchair by the western window, her Bible in her lap and a smile on her sweet, kindly face. How dreary and empty the days must seem to poor old Number Thirty-one, with none of these things to brighten them. Joyce could scarcely keep the tears out of her voice while she talked.
Had the men been older or more experienced in war, the weeks of waiting would have been delightful rather than dreary. The regiment was the object of universal interest in the town. Base-ball and the alluring outdoor pastimes that now divert the dawdlers of cities were unknown.
I know not when food was ever more welcome, although it was simple enough to be sure a bit of hard cracker, and some jerked deer meat, washed down by water from the stream yet hunger served to make these welcome. We were at the edge of the wood, already growing dark and dreary with the shadows of approaching night.
I had blown out the candle; and the mere thought of Queequeg not four feet off sitting there in that uneasy position, stark alone in the cold and dark; this made me really wretched. Think of it; sleeping all night in the same room with a wide awake pagan on his hams in this dreary, unaccountable Ramadan!
Through the night sailed the girl, alone, sore afraid, but comforted with the assurance that a touch of her hand would bring to her the powerful man who slept at her feet. Straight she stood at the wheel, and tall, like some figure of a goddess of antiquity. The moon rose, and its light glorified her. It fell upon the shattered deck, defining every dreary detail.
I did not want to return to that dreary house until the lamps should be lighted and it was time to go to bed. The very thought of returning to sit with those forlorn waifs, in that cheerless whitewashed sitting-room, was appalling.
Why go to his house, or know his wife and family?" And yet does not the botanist like to study the flower in the soil where it grows? Polonius, too, is another ancient supposed to be an authority on friendship. The Polonius family must have been a thoroughly dreary one to live with; we have often thought that poor Ophelia would have gone mad anyway, even if there had been no Hamlet.
Would that hot dreary day never close? What advantage when it did? The next and the next and many weeks of others just the same were following hard after. If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice.
The king entered the carriage which was to bear him to Sans-Souci with a beaming countenance his deeply-loved Sans-Souci, which had seemed a golden dream to him during the dreary years of the war a bright goal before him, of which it consoled and strengthened him even to think.
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