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I pitied them so much, I dared not speak to them. I yearned to serve the dreariest of them all. "Presently there came an order, 'Tell them to take off socks, coats, and shirts; scrub them well, put on clean shirts, and the attendants will finish them off, and lay them in bed.
If they were tired of sleeping aboard, there were his two palmetto palaces, with couches of down on which to stretch their limbs and, for amusement poor devils! he swept his eyes whimsically around that dreariest of landscapes they might exercise their imaginations by pretending, after the manner of John Teach, that they were on an excursion to Hades this was the famous River Acheron and so on.
Watching its progress with fearful curiosity, the young man noted how often it paused to increase its load. His thoughts, coloured by the scene, were of the saddest and dreariest complexion. All around wore the aspect of death. The few figures in sight seemed staggering towards the grave, and the houses appeared to be plague-stricken like the inhabitants.
It was the dreariest Sunday he had ever passed, but he rose the next morning in the highest spirits, for Sam's father had told him to get off back to town directly after breakfast. "If Uncle James would only get better and go too," he said to himself as he dressed, "how much pleasanter it would be!"
"I never was attached to that great sect Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the world a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend To cold oblivion, though it is the code Of modern morals, and the beaten road Which those poor slaves with weary footsteps tread Who travel to their home among the dead By the broad highway of the world, and so With one sad friend, perhaps a jealous foe, The dreariest and the longest journey go."
She gathered up her skirts, and sped down the path, and Polly gave a sigh of real relief. That night, which was long remembered in the annals of the Maybright family as one of the dreariest and most terrible they had ever passed through, came to an end at last. With the early dawn Polly was brought home, and about the same time Nurse and Maggie reappeared with baby on the scene.
For instance, if the philosopher is thrown into the society of a man who can talk nothing but motor jargon or golfing shop I select the instances of the conversation that is personally to me the dreariest he need not attempt to talk of golf or motors, and he is equally bound not to discourse of his own chosen intellectual interests; but he ought to endeavour to find a common region, in which he can meet the golfer or the motorist without mutual dreariness.
Some of the cattle were lying down chewing their cud; others were moving slowly while they cropped the grass, all headed west. Riding herd seemed, after an hour or two, to be the dreariest kind of work to the Eastern boy. Then he noticed that there was a chill in the air and that distant lightning played on the clouds to the north. The cattle all got upon their feet.
But of all world-worn, sad-looking churches, that one sad, even in the sunset was the dreariest I had ever beheld. Surely, it needed the gospel of the resurrection fervently preached therein, to keep it from sinking to the dust with dismay and weariness. Such a soul alone could keep it from vanishing utterly of dismal old age.
Since then the fourteenth of February had been the dreariest of all the year, because the most haunted by memory of departed happiness. But now, this year, if she could not have the old gladness of heart herself, she would try and brighten the life of another.
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