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Poor wretch that I am! What a yearning for Hellas from some woeful madness seized you at the behest of your father Phrixus. Bitter sorrows for my heart did he ordain when dying. And why should ye go to the city of Orchomenus, whoever this Orchomenus is, for the sake of Athamas' wealth, leaving your mother alone to bear her grief?"
Can loneliness and longing, the desolation of one who has no human creature on whom to lavish love and care, the dull misery that is known only to those whose best beloved are suffering the worst woes of this woeful life, can all these be told? Ah, no! one can only feel them bear them and be crushed by them. If it had not been for the good old dame, I know not what would have become of me.
While thus engaged they knew that, should any hostile natives attack them, they must be taken at a woeful disadvantage. The arms therefore were placed in the boat, so that each one might seize his weapon in an instant, while two men proceeded as scouts through the forest on the right to give warning should a foe approach.
The ancient palaces are now in ruins, and the peaceful population scattered abroad, charges upon the charity of the world. Certainly a woeful picture in contrast to the content of other days. The vast green plains behind the dunes, or sand hills, extend unbrokenly from here to the French frontier, spire after spire dominating small towns, and windmills, are the objects seen.
He made much of his Picts, and honoured them more sweetly than ever before. On a day when they had sat long at their cups, and all were well drunken, Vortigern came amongst them in the hall. He saluted them sadly, showing the semblance of a woeful man.
During a few tense seconds the girl prayed for power to play the bitter part which had been thrust upon her to play it well for the sake of the man who loved her, and whom she loved. The words of his mother were still in her ears. She had to make him think that she did not care for him. In the last resort she had to fly from him. She had tacitly promised to do this woeful thing.
It was almost impossible for Dalaber to rejoice in his own freedom and in the beauty of all about him, so woeful were his thoughts about this man whom he so greatly loved. He went to his room that night, but sleep came not to him.
But the surmise that steals timidly from one mouth flies boldly as a certitude from every mouth that repeats it, and truth itself would now be listened to with only a gossip's ear, but no person would believe a word of it. This night also was calm and beautiful, but this night was the most sinister and woeful of those that have passed.
However, as he had been got in they ought to be able to get him out; and indeed when two other bearers had entered the carriage from the other side, they were at last able to deposit him on the platform. The dawn was now appearing, a faint pale dawn; and the platform presented the woeful appearance of an improvised hospital.
Oh, sirs, a woeful day for us all!" "A woeful day!" I exclaimed. "What's the matter?" The man, whom I recognized as one of the commander's servants, a fellow with the soul of a French valet de chambre, was wild with terror. "They are at the guns!" he quavered. "Alackaday! what can a few sakers and demiculverins do against them?" "Against whom?" I cried. "They are giving out pikes and cutlasses!
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