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At last, one sweet July evening, late in the month, the brother and sister were wandering along the lovely shore of Lucerne. He had been unusually fitful, restless and moody all day. No letter had reached him in over a fortnight, and he was miserably unhappy.
To a company of enthusiastic Wordsworthians who were deploring their master's confession that he got drunk at Cambridge, I heard Mr. Shorthouse, the accomplished author of John Inglesant, soothingly remark that in all probability "Wordsworth's standard of intoxication was miserably low."
When the boy regained consciousness, daylight was creeping into the cavern through an opening much lower down than the one by which the boys had entered the upper cavern. The earth outside was covered with a thick mat of snow, and the trees and shrubs of the forest were bending beneath burdens of pure white. The fire had burned to ashes and it was miserably cold. The Little Brass God was gone!
At eight-thirty Jones had examined seventy-one photographs. There were about sixty-nine more that he hadn't. Jones rose. "I must say good night now," he pleaded. "Say good night!" they said, "why it's only half-past eight! Have you anything to do?" "Nothing," he admitted, and muttered something about staying six weeks, and then laughed miserably.
And in a minute the dog trotted off happily, to vary the fun. He remained staring miserably across at the hills, whose still beauty he begrudged. He wanted to go and cycle with Edgar. Yet he had not the courage to leave Miriam. "Why are you sad?" she asked humbly. "I'm not sad; why should I be," he answered. "I'm only normal."
If no will turns up, Joe's estate is legally mine, but I shall see that Florence is amply provided for." He spoke with a proud dignity, and I was rather sorry I had caught him up so sharply. I went back to the inn, and, after vainly racking my brain over it all for a time, I turned in, but to a miserably broken night's rest. The next morning I received information from headquarters.
But if there's shadow there's sun, and if there's darkness there's always the dawn. But what o' yourself, friend; you've been fighting I think, judging by your looks?" "Yes, and I ran away!" I confessed miserably. "Humph!" said the Tinker. "That don't sound very hee-roic!" "But he came back, Jerry!" said Diana in her gentlest voice.
The truth was, there lay in his being a possibility of love to his wife far beyond anything his miserably stunted consciousness had an idea of; and the conviction of her faithlessness now wrought upon him in the office of Death, to let him know what he had lost. It magnified her beauty in his eyes, her gentleness, her grace; and he thought with a pang how little he had made of her or it.
I have seen whole byways covered thus with yellow dodder rootless, leafless, parasitic reaching up to the sunlight, quite cutting off and smothering the plants which gave it life. A week or two it flourishes and then most of it perishes miserably. So many of us come to be like that: so much of our civilization is like that.
If he failed in his efforts and perished miserably in his search, why, what did it matter? They were dying off very rapidly where they were, and things could not be worse.
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