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"No, my friend; on the contrary, the ground was struck with lightning a hundred paces from the chateau, and a fountain sprung up in a place entirely destitute of water." "What in the world is the matter, then?" "The fact is, I have received an invitation for the fete at Vaux," said Porthos, with a lugubrious expression. "Well! do you complain of that?
"You must feel yourself very guilty to offer as the ransom of your faults the love you owe me." The count's voice was lugubrious and the bitter words were enforced by a look which fell like lead upon the countess. "My God!" she cried sorrowfully, "can innocence be fatal?" "Your death is not in question," said her master, coming out of a sort of reverie into which he had fallen.
This lugubrious frontispiece positively fascinated me, and lent a further gloomy charm to the ballad itself. It was in this copy of mediocre verses that the sense of romance first appealed to me, the kind of nature-romance which is connected with hills, and lakes, and the picturesque costumes of old times.
"I said I had lost two hundred florins," replied Ben, with a most lugubrious expression. "Impossible!" "I was standing near the table, in the grand gambling hell, I beg pardon, hall, watching the play, when I saw a Russian czar, king, grand dook, poly-wog, or something of that sort, win two hundred florins at one fell swoop.
At the supper hour, however, Miss Belle, moved by Kiddie's lugubrious countenance, yielded her place to Margaret, who continued the operation of giving Mr. Finlayson "the time of his life."
At all the houses which the procession passes there are seated women with censers to fumigate the marching host. Thus the community solemnly buries its Christ as if he had just died. At last the waxen image is again deposited in the church, and the same lugubrious chants echo anew. These lamentations, accompanied by a strict fast, continue till midnight on Saturday.
The lugubrious figure vanished, and Mr. Bosengate pictured instead the form of his own wife bending over her "Gloire de Dijon roses" in the rosery, where she generally worked a little before tea now that they were short of gardeners.
And they said the width of the face should be equal to five eyes, and the width of the eyes equal to to something else. I've forgotten that, too only that mine wasn't." "What a lugubrious picture!" laughed Pendleton. Then, with his gaze admiringly regarding the girl's animated face and expressive eyes, he asked: "Did you ever look in the mirror when you were talking, Pollyanna?"
Its doors stand open, its windows are gone, the rotting floor crumbles beneath the heel, and the winds moan through the paneless sashes, like invisible spirits hovering near and muttering some lugubrious secret. "This is the scene of some deed of darkness!" you are tempted to mutter, as you place your feet upon the threshold.
"So shall 'the accomplished. Clinton and I shall honor that lugubrious ceremony with our presence; but as respecting the clodhopper himself, meaning thereby Bryan of Ahadarra, he is provided for. What an unlucky thought to enter into the old fellow's noddle! However, non constat, as Finigan would say, time will develop."
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