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NICE, October 6, 1897. ... You complain that my heroes are gloomy alas! that's not my fault. This happens apart from my will, and when I write it does not seem to me that I am writing gloomily; in any case, as I work I am always in excellent spirits. It has been observed that gloomy, melancholy people always write cheerfully, while those who enjoy life put their depression into their writings.

She went on up-stairs, with the sound of her laugh following her, and Verrian went gloomily back to the billiard-room, where he found most of the smokers conspicuously yawning. He lighted a fresh cigar, and while he smoked they dropped away one by one till only Bushwick was left. "Some of the fellows are going Thursday," he said. "Are you going to stick it out to the bitter end?"

"You don't think we've made a failure, do you?" "Why, of course," she faltered, while March remained gloomily silent. "Well, I guess we'll wait for the official count, first. Even New York hasn't gone against us, and I guess there's a majority coming down to Harlem River that could sweep everything before it, anyway." "What do you mean, Fulkerson?" March demanded, sternly. "Oh, nothing!

On which he had gloomily taken his departure for an archæological congress at Berlin, and an autumn in Italy; and a few weeks later she had recovered her darling Elizabeth, paler and thinner than before and quite, quite incomprehensible! As for "saving" her, Mrs. Gaddesden had not been allowed to attempt it. In the first place, Elizabeth had stoutly denied that there was anything to save her from.

Sarah Gailey, struggling with the complexities of the Cedars, away in Hornsey, was unwell and gloomily desolate. She wrote that she suffered from terrible headaches on waking, and that she was often feverish, and that she had no energy whatever. "I am at a very trying age for a woman," she said.

"Well?" inquired the other. "Well, it looks rather as if she had snatched them nervously, to make an excuse for being there after well, after she was there." "I know what you're driving at," said Flambeau rather gloomily. "But that and every other suspicion breaks down on the one point the want of a weapon.

As the squire still stood gloomily staring, now at the departing Whigs, now at the blazing barn, and now at his stable and other buildings, Clarion, who had taken a great interest in the last hour's doings, suddenly pricked up his ears and then ran forward to a snow-drift within a few yards of the burning building. Here he halted and gave vent to a series of loud yelps.

And when we finally pulled you loose, he picked up his hat and made a run for it." Ford meditated gloomily. "I'll lick him again, and lick him when I'm sober, by thunder!" he promised grimly. "Who was he, do you know?" "No, I don't. Little, dried-up geezer with a nose like a kit-fox's and a whine to his voice. He won't come around here no more."

"Nor do I think she will try. But it is better in the long run that a woman respect a man, not loving him, than to love, despising him. Respect is likely to last; all sorts of love may die. But in any case it is Frances's intention to marry a fortune for her father's sake, even though she has to close her eyes in doing it." "I'll try to prevent that misfortune," he answered gloomily.

He was bending gloomily over his plate, apparently absorbed in his own thoughts though how any man could be gloomy after his recent experience it was beyond me to imagine. My astonishment flamed into a feeling of acute annoyance. If any one had spoken to me at that moment, I should have been unforgivably rude.