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For a few brief hours strange figures had replaced the unromantic Quimby in its rooms, they had come to talk of money and of love, to plot and scheme, and as they came in the dark and moved most swiftly in the dark, so in the dark they went away, and Baldpate's startling winter drama took reluctantly its final curtain. Down the snowy road the five followed Quimby's lead; Mr.
'How do, Bob? 'How do, Bob? We sat down. Mr Brindley pointed to the condition of the floor. 'Cheerful, isn't it? he observed to me, shouting above the din of vibrating glass. Our fellow-passengers were few and unromantic, perhaps half-a-dozen altogether on the long, shiny, yellow seats of the car, each apparently lost in gloomy reverie.
Petersburg and the neighboring villages was dissected, plank by plank, and its foundations dug up and ransacked for hidden treasure and not by boys, but men pretty grave, unromantic men, too, some of them. Wherever Tom and Huck appeared they were courted, admired, stared at.
"Not a noise," said Nellie, shocked at his unromantic description. "The waves seem to say `Hush! and speak to me, as softly as if they wanted to send me to sleep!" "Bravo, young lady!" put in the Captain, overhearing her remark. "`Rocked in the cradle of the deep, as the old song runs, eh?
There is a small lake upon the highest portion of this table-land, whose waters are led down the steep bank, and made to work a saw-mill, which is certainly giving a very unromantic turn to them. But here, as in the States, the beautiful and the ideal are instantly converted into the real and the practical.
It was in rather a dejected mood that the girls betook themselves to the upper landing that afternoon, and once more climbed the now familiar winding staircase. The lantern room looked exactly the same as on their two former visits. There was nothing in it to excite interest or arouse curiosity. A more unromantic chamber could not be conceived.
Even the largest tank will eventually become empty and then there will be water for no one until the pump has replenished the supply. "Waste not, want not" is an excellent motto for dwellers in the country, especially where water is concerned. Among the problems which his miniature municipality brings to the country house owner is the unromantic but necessary one of sewage disposal.
The faithful discharge of unromantic, secular duties, the keeping of one's heart pure in the midst of temptation, and the unheralded altruism of private life, must ever be as welcome in the sight of God as the prayers of the recluse, who scorns the world of secular affairs. True religion, the highest religion, is possible beyond the walls of churches and convents.
I once heard a man a modern man, living to-day tell with a hush in his voice, and a peculiar light in his eye, how, walking in the outskirts of an unromantic town in New Jersey, he came suddenly upon a vigorous, bearded, rather rough-looking man swinging his stick as he walked, and stopping often at the roadside and often looking up at the sky.
And the very touch of fanaticism in her love for Owen, which made her feel that it would be a small thing indeed to die for him if by dying she might give him happiness, helped her to realize the strength of the pallid, unromantic young dentist's devotion.
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