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We were late in getting in, the roads being very bad from heavy rains; and, after dark, the dulness of the scene was quite intolerable. We entered on a very different, and a finer scene of desolation, next night, at sunset. Where this lake flows, there stood, of old, a city. It was swallowed up one day; and in its stead, this water rose.
"How I passed the next six months I could hardly tell you," he began again, quite abruptly. "At times I was bored fearfully bored. Yet the element of mystery, of uncertainty, of underlying peril, gave a certain zest to the affair. In the periods of dulness I found some amusement in visiting the lower camp and baiting the Nigger.
The supplications of an author never yet reprieved him a moment from oblivion; and, though greatness has sometimes sheltered guilt, it can afford no protection to ignorance or dulness.
She started up with a cry, and looked in her brother's face. She had never seen anyone die, and yet she saw that he was dead. How the terrible time, terrible for its very dulness and insensibility, passed until it brought the funeral, Helen could not have told. It seemed to her, as she looked back upon it, a bare blank, yet was the blank full of a waste weariness of heart.
He was so much the typical economist of the day that he has been identified with Carlyle's M'Crowdy, the apostle of the dismal science. He writes, however, with enough vivacity and fervour of belief in his creed to redeem him from the charge of absolute dulness.
Slight incidents, casual expressions, would sometimes suggest these subjects; by association they would suggest one another. The mere reaction of a somewhat cultivated spirit against invading dulness, might recall some of the more amusing and elating ones; and they would fall like a gleam of sunshine on the imagination.
Mr. Macgregor, rising, advanced with great respect to this personage. "I scarcely ventured to hope you would coom, Lord Lilburne, the night is so cold." "You did not allow sufficiently, then, for the dulness of my solitary inn and the attractions of your circle. Aha! whist, I see." "You play sometimes?"
His subject was the answer to prayer and the fulfilment of prophecy and how both come, come surely and directly, yet often in so different a form to that which, in our narrowness of vision and dulness of sense, we anticipate, that we fail to recognise either the answer or the fulfilment, and so miss the blessing they must needs bring, and which is so richly, so preciously, ours if we had but the wit to understand and lay hold of it."
For there is no individual life, and no society, that is not liable to drift into a similar dulness of vision, and so to reject or disregard what God gives for its enlightenment. The great critical events in the world's history, the events that make epochs in the consciousness of men, are not different in kind from those of our own obscure lives.
They devised every indulgence they could think of to vary the dulness of the court. The king declared her of age two years before the usual time, and gave her a pretty country-house, with gardens, where she might spend her time as she pleased; and he encouraged her taking long country rides, as she was fond of horse-exercise.
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