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Summoning all his courage, he turned the door-knob, and was about to enter when the constable stopped him. "Don't be in such haste," he said; "you must sit down here, and wait till your turn comes; then you will be called." The wretched man obeyed, and his keeper took a seat beside him. Nothing is more terrible and lugubrious than this gallery of the judges of instruction.
A veritable statue of dejection he stood as though pondering the situation. Then he lifted his head and howled the long, lugubrious howl of the wolf that hungers. "You said it all," muttered Pete, turning swiftly and trudging down the road. He would have liked to howl himself.
The returned prospectors had been disappointed in a piece of ground upon which they had a "lay" or lease, which fact, in the main, accounted for their premature departure and the lugubrious view which they took. So we camped again at the same spot and deliberated.
Then, to the surprise of the young maiden, the three nuns all fell upon their knees around her, and began to chant a solemn hymn in most lugubrious notes. They had thrown aside their veils, and the flickering light of the dim lamp gave a ghastly and unearthly appearance to their pale and severe countenances.
It came at last, that morrow, which he had awaited with an impatience that neither his mother nor his sister could suspect. And towards half-past nine he was ready to go out, when M. Chapelain came in. Still irritated by the scenes he had just witnessed at the Mutual Credit office, the old lawyer had a most lugubrious countenance. "I bring bad news," he began.
That she would have done so had he kept aloof was a matter of course; but equally a matter of course was it that he would not keep aloof. "I shall want to see you for just five minutes to-morrow morning before you take your departure," he said, in a lugubrious voice, during her last evening. He had kept his promise to the very letter, mooning about in his desolate manner very conspicuously.
He choked, and even shed tears; but with an effort he mastered his voice and said in lugubrious tones: "Are you the duck that runs the gospel-mill next door?" "Am I the pardon me, I believe I do not understand?"
When we saw him, no disorder, nothing lugubrious, no trace of suffering, politeness, tranquillity, conversation but little animated, indifference to what was passing in the world, speaking of it little and with difficulty; little or no morality, still less talk of his state; and this uniformity, so courageous and so peaceful, was sustained full four months until the end; but during the last ten or twelve days he would see neither brothers-in-law nor nephews, and as for his wife, promptly dismissed her.
At last it stopped at the door of the lunatic asylum, and the post-boy dismounting from his reeking horses, pulled violently at a large bell, which answered with a most lugubrious tolling, and struck awe into the breast of Mrs Forster. When the door was opened, Mr Ramsden's servant alighted, and went in to deliver his letter to the doctor.
"I am willing to retire from the firm of Wrandall & Co.," she said. "Father says the business is as good as it was a year ago, but I don't agree with him," said the son, trying to look lugubrious. "Then you don't care to repeat your original proposition?" "Well, the way business has been falling off " "Perhaps you would prefer to sell out to me," she remarked quietly.