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For months I dared not board the Arabella, my sea yacht, for fear of a return of my old malady; but after you deserted me and came to this this artificial, dreary, bewildering " "Never mind insulting my birthplace, sir!" "Oh! were you born here, Patsy? Then I'll give the town credit. So, after you deserted me at Los Angeles " "You still had Mrs. Montrose and her nieces, Maud and Flo Stanton."
That day, however, I caught a glimpse of Tedham's little girl, as she flitted through the hall, after we were seated in the parlor; she was in black, a forlorn little shadow in the shadow; and I recalled now, as we stood once more on the threshold of the rather dreary house, a certain gentleness of bearing in the child, which I found infinitely pathetic, at that early moment of her desolation.
She was conscious only of the fact that her brother had been cut off in the very moment of success before it, indeed; ere he had actually tasted the sweets of the ambition he had given all his years to gain. Silence fell between them, broken only by the clucking of the whitefaced clock and the dreary sound of the wind outside, crying round the old house like a frightened woman in the dark.
Tremendously dreary are these marches, as far as the eye can reach, billows of sand bound the prospect.
Progress of the army. Cantons. An embassage. Hostages. Hannibal's suspicions. Treachery of the mountaineers. They attack Hannibal. The elephants. Hannibal's army divided. Hannibal's attack on the mountaineers. They embarrass his march. Hannibal's indomitable perseverance. He encamps. Return of straggling parties. Dreary scenery of the summit. Storms in the mountains. A dreary encampment.
Behind the inn, however, was a grand old oak, whose somber leaves darkened the stones of the roof, while the other house stood out in bold relief against the sky. To complete the description, this old building was as silent and dreary as the Inn Boeuf-Gras was noisy and animated.
The Prospect Hotel, a building standing near the wild north coast of Lower Wessex, looked so lonely and so useless at such a time as this that a passing wayfarer would have been led to forget summer possibilities, and to wonder at the commercial courage which could invest capital, on the basis of the popular taste for the picturesque, in a country subject to such dreary phases.
She dived and swam far more quickly than an eel. It is terribly dreary to want the sun, but after a month one gets used to it. Besides, one knows that bright and beautiful days are on ahead. Older people might have felt very weary, but none of our Crusoes lost heart. I have not told you yet of the Aurora Borealis, which was best seen on dark, starry nights.
The month of August and the first portion of September wore away in this dreary manner, and it was perhaps a week later that Colonel Washington sent me to Frederick to make arrangements for some supplies.
I have nothing more to tell of my adventures in the arctic seas. About the middle of September, I had reached the more frequented parts of the ocean, and every day was on the lookout for some friendly barque, to liberate me from my dreary solitude. For months I had not heard the sound of a human voice, and I began to long for the society of my fellow-men.
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