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It filled me with apprehension, for it was a sign of the great wealth of her father the wealth which I feared would be a bar to our union. I think she was surprised at the glum look on my face for the rest of the little journey. "Are you sorry to go and see my father?" she asked plaintively, with a sweet look in her blue eyes.
A wooden bridge crosses the river at the narrow end of the funnel-shaped harbour, connecting it with the town in the steaming valley, the usual medley of open tokos and atap huts, supplemented by two dubious hotels, a green aloon-aloon, and a few stone houses denoting the presence of the European element. The original inhabitants of Gorontalo are of Alfoer race dark, glum, and forbidding.
"Back to the pier," added Archy; and under the orders of her skilful coxswain, she was put about, and darted up the river on her return. The shining ebony face of the great Athenian philosopher's namesake looked glum and discontented. He was not satisfied with the order; but not being a free agent, he was cruelly deprived of the luxury of grumbling.
She went a little towards her. "How do you do, Molly?" her little soft voice said. Molly looked glum, and spoke never a word. "I have been waiting to see you," Daisy said, advancing a step nearer "and you did not come out. I was afraid you were sick." One of Molly's grunts came here. Daisy could not tell what it meant. "Are you sick, Molly?" "It's me and not you" said the cripple morosely.
Because they themselves had made no advance, or had seen no advance made, they believed the attack was a failure, that thousands of men had fallen and no ground had been gained. The stretcher-bearers who brought them in had a similar tale to tell, and everyone looked glum and pulled a long face.
"Victory, Clara, victory!" cried Ida, still pirouetting around the furniture. "Did you hear what he said? Pernicious influences! Don't you understand, Clara? Why do you sit there so pale and glum? Why don't you get up and dance?" "Oh, I shall be so glad when it is over, Ida. I do hate to give him pain. Surely he has learned now that it is very unpleasant to spend one's life with reformers."
Now there's Eric; that chap used to be a hustler and the spryest dancer in all this section-called all the dances. Now he's got no ambition and he's glum as a preacher. I don't suppose we can even get him to come in tomorrow night." "Eric? Why, he must dance, we can't let him off," said Margaret, quickly. "Why, I intend to dance with him myself." "I'm afraid he won't dance.
"Why, my masters, why so glum?" said the bailiff; "my inn is not such a bad place, and you'll find ample good company here, I promise you." And he led us into a dingy antechamber littered with papers, on every one of which, I daresay, was written a tragedy.
As the days wore on the idea took possession of her more and more completely, but she could only wreak her helpless ill-humour by doing foolish and futile things, such as dilating to Ody upon the imprudence of getting married, and the undesirable qualities of black-looking slips of colleens a simple and ingenious expedient for putting him out of conceit with all and any of them; while she assumed towards Theresa a demeanor so glum and repellent that the girl could not attribute it entirely to the irritability caused by rheumatic twinges, and from one of her charitably intentioned visits returned with a disconcerted expression, and a resolve, which she kept, to pay no more.
He's rich, generous, devoted, worships me and always will, that's one comfort. There'll be no one to halve his devotion or his money with me, no one to look glum if I want to be a little bit extravagant. Grant never refused me anything in his life, but I'm always afraid to ask half that I want. But with Tom everything will be my own. He won't ask a question. Such laces as I will have!
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