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"But somebody must do the work that enables you to loaf," Mr. Wombold spoke up indignantly. "'Tis true, 'tis sad 'tis true," Terrence replied lugubriously. Then his face beamed.
Overland Red, sitting on a boulder beside the road, stooped and gathered up a handful of pebbles. Then, for lack of other interest, he invented a game of ancient and honorable origin. "She loves me," he said tossing away a pebble. "She loves me not." And up spun another pebble. So he continued until the pebbles were gone. "She loves me not," he muttered lugubriously. Then his face brightened.
Tyrer rolled his eyes in the direction of his wife, apparently as an intimation that she was to answer for him. "Noan so well," said Mrs. Tyrer lugubriously, proceeding thereupon to give accurate, not to say harrowing, particulars of her master's symptoms; Tyrer, meanwhile, suffering his glance to wander from one to the other, and occasionally nodding or shaking his head.
An orange tree full of flowers and fruit was conspicuous in one barge, while in another, strangely and lugubriously enough, lay the murdered William the Silent in the arms of his wife and surrounded by his weeping sons and daughters all attired in white satin.
"But, good gracious, I can't talk business with you from this confounded beam," he cried lugubriously. "Mr. Austin will call the dog away," she said confidently, turning to the man in the door. Austin's sallow face lighted with a sudden malicious grin, and there was positive joy in his voice. "You may be satisfied, but I am not.
Then she pursued him into the study and thrust a Spectator into his hands, begging him to convey it to Burwood. She asked it lugubriously with many sighs, her cap much askew. Robert could have kissed her, curls and all, one moment for suggesting the errand, and the next could almost have signed her committal to the county lunatic asylum with a clear conscience. What an extraordinary person it was!
"Oh!" "She'll accept," opined Joseph P. Mangles, lugubriously. "Is it a great honor?" "There are different sorts of greatness," Joseph replied. "What is the Massachusetts Women Bachelors' Federation?" Joseph Mangles did not reply immediately. He stepped out into the road to allow a lady to pass.
Curiously enough, the cries of calamity in the United States were echoed across the water, where the "London Times" lugubriously exclaimed: "The shipping interest, the cradle of our navy, is half ruined. Our commercial monopoly exists no longer; and thousands of our manufacturers are starving or seeking redemption in distant lands.
"Let me tell you in plain English that you are the most impudent, offensive and exasperating man I have ever met!" exclaimed Myra, shaken by a gust of angry resentment. "I don't want to talk to you, señor, and I repeat that you are behaving like a cad!" Don Carlos sighed lugubriously and turned up his eyes to the ceiling. "I am spurned!" he lamented, as if soliloquising. "I am desolated!
Harding. "I couldn't part with him." "I don't blame you, ma'am, not a particle; though there's the making of a sailor in Jack." "If he went away, he'd never come back," said Rachel, lugubriously. "I don't know about that, ma'am. I've been a sailor, man and boy, forty years, and here I am, well and hearty to-day." "The captain is about your age, isn't he, Aunt Rachel?" said Jack, maliciously.
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