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He scarcely realized it at the time; for once he was too much moved to think about his own emotions, the artist was altogether lost in the man. Even the room in which he lodged was relieved of its sordidness; it was a thing that men had made, and so a part of the mystery of becoming.
Is it a wholesome place to live in, with its black shingles, and the green moss that shows how damp they are? its dark, low-studded rooms its grime and sordidness, which are the crystallization on its walls of the human breath, that has been drawn and exhaled here in discontent and anguish? The house ought to be purified with fire, purified till only its ashes remain!"
I have no sentimental scenes to describe, no cruelty of guardians, or magnanimity of wards, or agonies of lovers. The record I have to make is one of sordidness, levity, and interest.
And when he awoke in the morning and looked upon the wretchedness about him, his dream had had its usual effect it had intensified the sordidness of his surroundings a thousandfold. Then came bitterness, and heart-break, and tears. Tom got up hungry, and sauntered hungry away, but with his thoughts busy with the shadowy splendours of his night's dreams.
She drew the shades and flung on log after log. She swept and dusted the room. Put Gaston's slippers and house-coat close to the warmth. She lighted the lamp to keep up the delusion, then stole to her room and made ready. Again, as the garments of the daily task fell from her, Joyce felt the sordidness and fearsomeness depart.
Both the sordidness and the luxury which industrialism may involve, could be remedied, however, by a better distribution of the product.
While speaking with slow scorn of the life which she had lived as a Gipsy, yet she tried to make him understand, too, that, in the days when she belonged to it, it all seemed natural to her, and that its sordidness, its vagabondage did not produce repugnance in her mind when she was part of it. Unwittingly she over-coloured the picture, and he knew she did.
The agreeable finish to the minor love-story of Calverley and Miss Ffrench does not remove the general savour of sordidness which the reader carries away from the study of so much of the bad side of human nature. In connection with criticism of this kind, it ought, however, to be noted that other hands besides the author's are known to have contributed to the novel.
Indeed, the best Schemes miscarried thro' his Sordidness, and yet with all these Faults, he maintain'd his Ascendency over the Prince, so that no Courtier dared utter any Complaint against him. His selfish Love of Peace, could not, however, hinder his being involved in an unavoidable War.
He was conscious of a kind of meanness and ugly sordidness in the suggestion; but the stake his future, his career, his position in the world was too high to allow him to be too chivalrous. His sense of the real facts was perverted. He said to himself that he must be practical. Moved by the new thought, he seized a time-table and looked up the trains.
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