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The emancipation of the goose is an experiment, but it is not surprising that many enthusiasts should believe it to be an experiment well deserving of a trial. A great writer has pathetically described the last days of a man under sentence of death.
She was all in her glory, and looked so pathetically happy, so full of affliction and grace, was so beautiful, so pitiable, and so charming that it was almost impossible not to be glad she was there. Miss Thorne was unaffectedly glad to welcome her.
And as he sat there vapouring about the pathetically insignificant he looked more like Napoleon III than ever. His eyes had the same mournful depths, his features the same stamp of fatality. Each man has his gigantic combinations perhaps equally important in the eyes of the High Gods. I was filled with an immense pity for Napoleon III. Of the object of the adventure he said nothing.
Said his own personal constituency among the little people was big enough amply to secure us." Ford swore pathetically. "The one single instance when his caution might have steered him straight and it went to sleep!" he raged. "Exactly," laughed Adair.
Copses, dells, quarries, and all hidden places, which had been mysterious mines for exploration in leafy summer, now exposed themselves and their secrets pathetically, and seemed to ask him to overlook their shabby poverty for a while, till they could riot in rich masquerade as before, and trick and entice him with the old deceptions. It was pitiful in a way, and yet cheering even exhilarating.
I really have got such a dreadful load here! Mr Toots pathetically touched his shirt-front with both hands 'that I feel night and day, exactly as if somebody was sitting upon me. 'Them, said the Captain, 'is the terms I offer. If they're hard upon you, brother, as mayhap they are, give 'em a wide berth, sheer off, and part company cheerily!
As my guardian suggested, my first youth was over. I held up both my hands in token that I asked for grace. "Kamerad!" I begged pathetically. "Come, Dunny, let's be sociable. After all, you know, it's my last evening; and if you call me such names, you will be sorry when I am gone.
He had been, in his own person, connected with the incident he so pathetically described; he had been by name remembered and commended in close association with it; and his fortunes must have a particular interest in his employer's eyes.
"Ha!" cried Vincenz, very loudly and pathetically, "how the froth seethes! now that is a quotation from the 'Kreuz an der Ostsee, where the heathen priests sing it in fearful and horrible strains.
It was early one morning, when we were going out to breakfast at Tisapán, that Don Juan recounted to us his experience of garrotted malefactors sitting dead in their chairs in the great square across which we were riding. "It was really almost enough to spoil a fellow's breakfast," he added pathetically.
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