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Clare's fine countenance was for a moment overcast; he said, "Come, cousin, don't stand there looking like one of the Fates; you've only seen a peep through the curtain, a specimen of what is going on, the world over, in some shape or other. If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything.
All day the wind blew with unabated fury, and when evening came on Frank thought that it was increasing rather than diminishing in force. "Let's have a glass of grog and tumble in, my lad," Hiram said, "it gives one the dismals to listen to the wind."
Grace persuaded him to stay to luncheon, and he did, and tried to win Miss Rose out of the dismals, and got incontinently snubbed for his pains. But there was balm in Gilead for Rose. Just after luncheon a little shell-like sleigh, with prancing ponies and jingling bells, whirled musically up to the door.
I like you vastly, though I must now and then laugh at you; you know I hate dismals, so let this tune enliven us all!" and flying to her piano, she played and sang two or three merry airs, till the countess commanded her to the supper- table. At this most sociable repast of the whole day, cheerfulness seemed again to disperse the gloom which had threatened the circle. Thaddeus set the example.
"Ned, I don't much like the appearance of things," observed Jack; "I must get rid of that Father Thomaso." "You'll find that rather difficult," observed Gascoigne; "besides, if you get rid of him you would have his place filled up with another." "He has frightened that poor old woman into the dismals, and she has the pains of purgatory on her already. I shall go and talk to Mesty."
I shall die of the dismals in this house before the winter is over." "Then we must try and enliven it up a little for you. What would you like, a house-warming?" "Oh, papa! that would be delightful." "All right, then, a house-warming it shall be. We must speak to Grace and Kate about it; hold a council of war, you know, and settle preliminaries.
Now, as we stood together, I felt just a touch of the cold hand; the touch was but a feather weight, but any instant it will come down like a giant on its prey. It is terrible to stand as I do, looking into the face of Death; I mean it is terrible for one like me." "You are getting morbid, John," said Jasper; "you always were given to look on the dismals.
Of course, there's Lady Helena to play propriety, and there's the improvements at Catheron Royals to amuse you, and there's Sir Victor's endless 'lovering' to edify you, but still I say you shall come. You started with us, and you shall stay with us you belong to us, not to him, until the nuptial knot is tied. I wouldn't give a fig for London without you. I should die of the dismals in a week."
I git the dismals afterwards. 'Why, Mrs Spicer? What on earth do you mean? 'Oh,-I-don't-know-what-I'm-talkin'-about. You mustn't take any notice of me. And she'd put on her hat, kiss the children and Mary too, sometimes, as if she mistook her for a child and go. Mary thought her a little mad at times. But I seemed to understand.
Certainly, nothing was set down in malice, and to the serious-minded party who objected to a tone of levity in some portions of the Sketches, I can only say that it is a part of my religion to look well after the cheerfulnesses of life, and let the dismals shift for themselves; believing, with good Sir Thomas More, that it is wise to "be merrie in God."
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