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Updated: June 28, 2025
He went through the big house by himself, and he admitted to me that it had an uncomfortable feeling about it; but, of course, that might be nothing more than the natural dismalness of a big, empty house, which has been long uninhabited, and through which you are wandering alone.
"L'Histoire des Uscoques," I murmured. How far away it seemed. There was a pause. I regarded her for a moment or two. She was sunk again in serious reflection. I sighed at the general dismalness of life, I suppose and resumed my Arabic. "Seer Marcous." "Yes?" "Why didn't you drive me away when I came back?" I shut up the Arabic grammar and went and sat beside her on the fenderstool.
A gas-light or two accentuated the murky dismalness of the little station. Emmy sank exhausted on a bench in the booking hail, numb with cold, and too woebegone to think of her hair, which straggled limply from beneath the zibeline toque. Septimus went to the booking office and asked for two first-class tickets to London. When he joined her again she was crying softly. "You're coming with me?
Johnson stayed in West Street, when the Thrales lived there; he bathed with the rest and, unlike the rest, abused the surroundings in his usual manner, declaring that a man would soon be so overcome by the dismalness of the Downs that he would hang himself if he could but find a tree strong enough to bear his weight!
The dismalness of the prospect was of course vastly exaggerated by the feeble light of the candle, which, swaying in my hand, flung a swarming of shadows upon the scene, through which the hammocks glimmered wan and melancholy. I came away in a fright, sliding the door to in my hurry with a bang that fetched a groaning echo out of the hold.
"I was almost affrighted," says Ellwood, "by the dismalness of the place; for, besides that the walls were all laid over with black, from top to bottom, there stood in the middle a great whipping-post. To this terrible punishment aged men and delicately nurtured young females were often subjected, during this season of hot persecution.
And I was glad enough that we had his absurd performances to distract our minds a little from the dismalness of our surroundings, and especially from the queasiness that again beset our stomachs as our noses were assailed more and more violently by that most evil smell.
"I feel better out here in the air; doesn't thee, Sally?" asked Peggy after the men had passed. "Yes; let's stay for a while. There is naught more that can be done inside." For answer Peggy slipped her arm about Sally's waist, and the two sat down on the steps of the porch. The house was near the bay, and the restless lapping of the waves smote their ears with rhythmic dismalness.
"I was almost affrighted," says Ellwood, "by the dismalness of the place; for, besides that the walls were all laid over with black, from top to bottom, there stood in the middle a great whipping-post. To this terrible punishment aged men and delicately nurtured young females were often subjected, during this season of hot persecution.
"I try to hide it from the mother for it would break her heart and from Janet too; but every morning I rise, the dismalness of being alone here of being caged up alone eats more and more into my heart. When I look at you, Ogilvie to-morrow morning you could go spinning off to any quarter you liked, to see any one you wanted to see "
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