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In the sombre light she stumbled against a screen covered with paper painted to look like lacquer-work, and, as the slip-shod old nurse in her serre-tête motioned her forward, she had a dismal sense of a lodging-house interior, a bourgeois barrenness enhanced by two engravings after Léopold Robert, depressingly alien from that dainty boudoir atmosphere of the artist-life she knew.
There are two dogs and no Magdalen. The dwarf and the parrot are there still. Under the table is a cat. Veronese has in this room also an "Annunciation," No. 260, in which the Virgin is very mature and solid and the details are depressingly dull. The worst Tuscan "Annunciation" is, one feels, better than this.
"And depressingly dreary, Uncle." "You astonish me!" "Indeed, dissipation thoroughly distresses me." "You amaze me! But you gamble, I presume?" "When nothing better offers, sir." "Well upon me everlasting soul !" "I hope I do not shock you, Uncle Jervas?" "Worry would be the more apt word, perhaps; you worry me, Nephew. Such impeccable virtue naturally suggests an early death a harp a halo!
Why do they climb? The motives are many the result joy. Yes, joy, even in the providential escapes and the "bad five minutes," beloved by our naïve scribes of the ice-axe, in the perils and death which they court for the sake of adventure and exploration. Sir Martin Conway speaks of the systematic climber as the man for whom climbing takes the place of fishing and shooting. How depressingly banal!
" Oh, ho. So that's it, is it ? " "Yes, that's it, rejoined Nora, shortly. The old lady was amazed into a long period of meditation. At last she spoke depressingly. " Well, how are you going to prevent it? Those things can't be done in these days at all. If they care for each other-" Nora burst out furiously. "Don't venture opinions until you know what you are talking about, please.
The room he entered was bare, depressingly so; bare as to its uncarpeted cottonwood floor, bare in its hard-finished, smoke-tinted walls. In it, to the casual observer, there were visible but four objects: an old-fashioned walnut desk that had once borne a top, but which did so no longer; two cane-bottomed chairs with rickety arms; and, seated in one thereof, a man.
He declared it was useless for regulars to follow the natives into the forest, and committed himself to the statement that two hundred natives in a stockade could stop Colonel Warre with five hundred men from joining him. He declined to assault the strong Weraroa pa the key to the west coast. He hinted depressingly that 2,000 more troops might be required from England.
"He'll take Fani on to his castle, leaving most of his men behind to massacre us!" Thal reined aside and Hoddan pounded on at the head of the tiny troop. This was the second time in his life he'd been on a horse. It was two too many. This adventure was not exhilarating. It came into his mind, depressingly, that supposedly stirring action like this was really no more satisfying than piracy.
I'm a theorist, pure and simple, and theorists are the anarchists of society. There's only one comfort about us we never live up to our convictions. Now forget all this rot I've been talking." Peter brought up the mail that afternoon, a Christmas card or two for Anna, depressingly early, and a letter from the Big Soprano for Harmony from New York.
Yet indeed even now there remains a further question which to the mind of any one who at present labours in this field of classical scholarship must recur persistently if not depressingly, and on which it is natural if not necessary to say a few words.
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