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"You will find me dull, I am afraid," I answered. "That's of no consequence. Self-education is my mission. Believe me, I thirst for this knack of lugubriousness." I would have resented the trifling at that moment from almost any person but Grace.
Hamilton could say should damp or put me out of temper, and then I sat down and read a sad rambling letter from Jill, which was so quaint and original, in spite of its lugubriousness, that it made me smile. I was standing by the door, caressing Tinker, who was in a frolicking mood this morning, when I saw Mr.
This, combined with an unwonted lugubriousness of visage, made Daniel's aspect somewhat comical. He kept stirring very deliberately with his sugar-crusher. 'Why, it's this, Dick, he began at length. 'And understand, to begin with, that I've got no complaint to make of nobody; it's only things as are awk'ard. It's this way, my boy.
And the grave-digger in Italian was a mere buffoon. The whole scene was farcical to me because of the Italian, 'Questo cranio, Signore 'And Enrico, dainty fellow, took the skull in a corner of his black cloak. As an Italian, he would not willingly touch it. It was unclean. But he looked a fool, hulking himself in his lugubriousness. He was as self-important as D'Annunzio. The close fell flat.
The ladies wear a kind of half-mourning, a stylish sort of reminder of original sin. Sackcloth and ashes in Catholic Dublin consist of fetching brown, grey, or tan costumes, set off with huge bunches of fragrant violets, tied with a bow the exact shade of the flower, or a dull shade of purple, a sort of Lenten lugubriousness particularly becoming to blonde penitents.
Perhaps the external signs are only the last stand of a lugubriousness driven out by overwhelming forces of internal joy." "Sí, sí!" said Firio. "Firio, you are eminently a conversationalist," said Jack. "You agree with any foolishness as if it were a new theory of ethics. You are an ideal companion. I never have to listen to you in order that I may in turn have my say." "Sí," said Firio.
But if Mick was full of the spirit of adventure, and looked forward to that spring Wednesday when he should leave for Queenstown, his mother made up for his heartless joy by her lugubriousness. As the time drew near she would buttonhole all and sundry whom she could catch to pour out her sorrows.
"Lady Hannah and her German attendant, as far back as the day before yesterday, when Monboia's man saw them, were in the enjoyment of excellent health." "Poof!" Captain Bingo blows a genuine sigh of relief, and the latent lugubriousness departs from him. "Good hearing. I've had call it hippopotamus on the chest this two months, and you'll about hit the mark.
I should have preferred to leave my fortune to you, Morgan, but I knew you wouldn't like to benefit by my death, so I have disposed of it otherwise." He looked hard at her. "Why this sudden lugubriousness?" he asked. "Well," she said enigmatically, and the enigma was repeated in the accompanying shrug of her shoulders.
Glendenning said I could get two or three rooms for somewhere from eighteen to thirty dollars, and I hoped, with the rent of the cottage here" "A month, Sara, a month; surely you didn't expect to pay so little for a year!" "Why, yes, I did; I'm afraid I'm dreadfully ignorant, Miss Prue." "As bad as a chicken just out of the shell," shaking her head with comical lugubriousness.
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