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In the West, not to say in every other locality, there is a time-honored joke about matrimony, for certain strenuous reasons, producing premature baldness. Ches grinned and removed his hat. Eight years had heightened his forehead perceptibly and thinned the hair on his temples. "You see what it's done to me," he pointed out lugubriously. "You ain't married yourself, I suppose?
T hen 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.
McDougall, of California, on the other hand, utterly regardless of the grandly patriotic resolutions of the Legislature of his State, which had just been presented to the Senate by his colleague lugubriously declared: "In my judgment, it may well be said of us: 'Let the Heavens be hung in black And let the Earth put mourning on,
Hilary and Cecily had been playing tennis, and, overhearing the alarming news, came up to the steps of the verandah. 'Did you say Red Indians were coming here? Uncle Lambert shook his head lugubriously. 'I always warned your father, he remarked; 'but he would come to live in Berkshire. 'Why? inquired Cecily. 'Is Berkshire a bad place for Red Indians, uncle?
He opened the tank back of the house and let every damn' bit of our gas run out. Is she safe inside?" "Yes, thanks to you, old man. You didn't catch him?" "Not even a whiff of him," said the other lugubriously. "The devil's to pay. In the name of God, how many were in your gang last night?" "That is for Mr. Loeb to find out," said Barnes shrewdly.
"That's it, Mir Saheb," replied I, sitting alert with chattering teeth and shivering ague-stricken body. "Barrister-at Law.... Sit as close to me as you can, for warmth.... Hark! Is that a signal?" as a long high wavering note rose from the dry river-bed before us and wailed lugubriously upon the night, rising and falling in mournful cadence. "'Twas a genuine jackal-cry, Huzoor.
Collar and tie followed the coat into the berth. I passed into the bath room and washed. At the moment I flung the towel back on the rack a sound came to me from my bedroom. I turned quickly, to see a diminutive figure roll from the back of the bed and untangle itself from my coat. "Please, I'm awful sick, Mr. Sedgwick," a voice lugubriously groaned. I stood staring at the little yellow face.
The crisp frost of the previous evening had given place to a bleak rawness; the day that was coming would crawl in, lugubriously, unable to get the better of the darkness. The houses about them were wrapped in sleep; they two were the only people abroad, and their footsteps echoed in the damp streets. But, for once, Louise was not affected by the gloom of her surroundings.
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.
"Hullo, Jack!" he observed, on reaching the end of the formal document, "those red-tape chaps a' Whitehall haven't given you much time to prepare for your examination!" The mention of this damped my ardour a bit, I can tell you! "Oh, I quite forgot that!" I exclaimed lugubriously. "When have I got to go up for exam., Dad?"
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