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"If you are any lonesomer than I am you must prove it." "I have proved it," said Linda quietly. "If you had been as lonesome as I am you would have come to me. As it is, I have come to you." "I see," said Peter rather breathlessly. "What have you there, Linda? Why did you come?" "I came for two reasons," said Linda. "I want to ask you about this stuff.
Wid approached more closely the weeping girl, touching her arm with a brown hand now gentle as a child's. "Now look-a-here," said he. "I can't stand to hear you go on that way. Do you reckon you was ever any lonesomer fer a home than what I am, living out here all my life?" "And now I'm worse off than I ever was before," he went on frowningly. "I didn't know nothing before you come out here.
Hicks," she said suddenly, "I should think Mr. Brown would hardly choose to come out here and do a sheep-herder's work. Especially as I understand he does n't really have to." "Well, it would seem that way, looking at it from this end. It's a little lonesome out here when there is n't anybody around. But down home there is n't anybody around his house, and that's lonesomer still.
Thyself threwest thou so high, but every thrown stone must fall! Condemned of thyself, and to thine own stoning: O Zarathustra, far indeed threwest thou thy stone but upon THYSELF will it recoil!" Then was the dwarf silent; and it lasted long. The silence, however, oppressed me; and to be thus in pairs, one is verily lonesomer than when alone!
"Looks lonesomer than ever, don't it?" said Captain Crowe, pensively. "I vow it's a shame to see such a harbor as this, an' think o' all the back country, an' how things were goin' on here in our young days." "'Tis sad, sir, sad," growled brave little Captain Witherspoon. "They've taken the wrong course for the country's good some o' those folks in Washington.
She had seen strong men there look just as he was looking. Dr. Griswold had called them crazy, and knowing well what that word implied she would save Richard from so sad a fate. "It will be lonesome for you when Miggie's gone," she said, as a prelude, to the attempt; "lonesomer than it has ever been before; and the nights will be so dark, for when the morning comes there'll be no Miggie here.
"Yes," said Carlisle, not absolutely dead-sure of the allusion, "but he was frightened, wasn't he, or something?" "And I was lonely. Loneliness beats fear hollow for making the world look out of whack." "Doesn't it? And is there a lonesomer place on the globe than a summer resort out of season?"
I knew 'at Jim would be glad to see me, but I knew I'd be lonesomer there than among total strangers; so I just floated, punchin' cows most o' the time, but not runnin' very long over the same range. It was just about this period that I begun to lose my serious view o' life and get more man-like.
An' now ye tell me ye don't want it, which it makes me feel lonesomer 'n a tarred Tory an' kind o' sorrowful ayes, sir, it does." Solomon's voice sank to a whisper. "Forgive me," said Jack. "I didn't know you felt that way. But I'm glad you do. I'll take it on the understanding that as long as I live what I have shall also be yours."
Hit got hotter en hotter in de war, en lonesomer en mo' lonesomer at home, en bimeby 'long come de conscrip' man, en he des everlas'nly scoop up Mars Jeems's overseer. W'en dis come 'bout, ole Miss, she sont atter me en say, sez she: "'Remus, I ain't got nobody fer ter look arter de place but you, sez she, en den I up'n say, sez I: "'Mistiss, you kin des 'pen' on de ole nigger.
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