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That was the way she entered the broad and draughty hall, with the formidably big rooms on either side dimly lighted by the queer candle lamps and the faint glow from the fires on the chilly marble hearths. A table was set before the fire in the dining salon. It looked dismayingly long, with its deep lace cover and the branched candelabra.
The two stones by the path were painted yellow; the outhouse was so overmodestly masked with vines and lattice that it was not concealed at all; the last iron dog remaining in Gopher Prairie stood among whitewashed conch-shells upon the lawn. The hallway was dismayingly scrubbed; the kitchen was an exercise in mathematics, with problems worked out in equidistant chairs.
Perhaps there is something in nature more agile and dismayingly elusive than a romping young collie. But that "something" is not a mortal man. As the thief sprang, Lad sprang in unison with him; darting to the left and a yard or so backward. He came to an expectant standstill once more; his tail wildly vibrating, his entire furry body tingling with the glad excitement of the game.
Hilda turned to George with a straightening of the shoulders, as if to say: "It is I who have the courage to light the gas and face the situation!" But when she saw him her challenging pride seemed to die slowly away. Though there was no sign of a tear on his features, and though it was difficult to believe that it was he who had just sobbed, nevertheless, his figure was dismayingly tragic.
A sapsucker was marking an accurate circle of dots round the throat of a tall young maple, and enjoying his work in a low, guttural soliloquy, seemingly, yet, dismayingly, suggestive of spring. "It's lovely, anyway," she said, following his glance with an upward turn of her face. "Yes, it's beautiful. I think this sort of winter day is about the best the whole year can do.
She was a fixed fact in his mind; had been for twenty years. He could have a surface quarrel with her because he knew the fundamental things in her, and with these, he was sure, no one could quarrel. His thoughts of Ruth and Olive were delightful surprises; his impression of Gertie was stable as the Rockies. Tirrell, a dismayingly smart dressmaker.
He was a graduate of the University of Minnesota dental department. He had oily black hair, and smiled with gold-filled teeth before one came to the real point of a joke. He sang in the Congregational church choir, and played tennis in a crimson-and-black blazer the only one in Joralemon. To Carl Dr. Doyle was dismayingly mature and smart. He horribly feared him as a rival.
Then she was positive that his face was too stiffly sober, but she ignored it ignored, too, the tinge of whimsicality in his voice. "If I weren't so sorry for you I might not be so sure; but I am sorry. If you weren't so dismayingly cheerful about it, I wouldn't feel so badly.
"You's runnin' 'way to de Yankees, dat's whar you gwine." At this too truthful thrust Jeems Henry saw that further deceit would be futile and he faced Uncle Billy with sullen resentment. "An' s'posin' I is wat den?" "Den you's a thief," retorted Uncle Billy with dismayingly quick wit. "Dat's what you is a thief." "I ain' no thief," Jeems Henry refuted stubbornly, "I ain' stole nothin'."
In fact it was a very comfortable living for all concerned, and the Marches had the conditions, almost dismayingly perfect, in which they had often promised themselves to go and be young again in Europe, when they rebelled at finding themselves elderly in America.
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