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He smiled at her tenderly, forgivingly, wistfully, but she did not see it. "Then it is really good-by," he murmured with mock dolorousness. She nodded her bowed head. "Yes," she whispered. "After all, I have some pride, you know. You mustn't presume to be the butterfly preaching contentment to the toad in the dust." "As you will it, Shirley." He turned away.
'For shame! I won't be insulted! 'Whew! I thought 'twas Val! I beg your pardon. 'I shall ask my aunt if I am to be insulted. 'Well, if you choose to take it in that way A man can't do more than beg pardon! I'm sure I would never have presumed to touch you if I had known it was your Dolorousness.
But even the presence of the swinging-lamps, which Hamish regarded as the highest conceivable point of luxury, did little to lessen the dolorousness of the appearance of the poor old Umpire. As Macleod, seated in the stern of the gig, approached her, she looked like some dingy old hulk relegated to the duty of keeping stores.
Married people no longer lovers are in the category of the unnameable. But the hint of the breaking of an engagement our engagement! between us? Oh!" "Oh!" Clara came out with a swan's note swelling over mechanical imitation of him to dolorousness illimitable. "Oh!" she breathed short, "let it be now. Do not speak till you have heard me. My head may not be clear by-and-by.
He turned upon the factor the brilliance of his smile, a combination of dazzling teeth and eyes that fairly danced with spirit, like bubbling wine, blue and swift in their changes from laughter to an exaggerated dolorousness, as when he spoke of these terrible hardships.
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