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Updated: May 11, 2025
Horner is dead." This was one of Miss Galindo's grim jokes. "As it is, I try to make him forget I'm a woman, I do everything as ship-shape as a masculine man-clerk. I see he can't find a fault writing good, spelling correct, sums all right. And then he squints up at me with the tail of his eye, and looks glummer than ever, just because I'm a woman as if I could help that.
But George was glummer than the December twilight now swiftly closing in. "That darned horse!" he said. "I wouldn't bother about Pendennis, Georgie," said his uncle.
He seems rather glummer than usual, but that won't hinder his work. I wish I had the old fellow's energy. After all, though, one can force one's self to use pencils and brushes; it's a different thing when all has to come from the brain. If you haven't a quiet mind " "What disturbs you?" Miriam asked, watching him. "Oh, there's always something. I wish you could give me a share of your equanimity.
"Did any of you observe which way he went when he went away?" "Yes," answered Sid Russell, "he went toward his trees." "That is toward the town," answered Sam. "Yes, so it is." "Have you observed anything peculiar about his conduct lately?" "No," replied Billy Bowlegs, "only that he's been a gettin' glummer an' glummer.
When we returned that night he would scarcely say a word. I thought he was sick; but he said he was not; said he just felt that way." "I understand. And he kept getting glummer? Did you suspect the jewel? Did he ever tell you anything?" She shook her head. "No. He told me nothing, except that he would find father. Of course, I became excited and wanted to know.
The umpire called it a strike on Weir; the same on the next pitch; the third was wide. Weir missed the fourth and was out. Raymond followed on the batting list. To-day, as he slowly stepped toward the plate, seemingly smaller and glummer than ever, it was plain he was afraid. The bleachers howled at the little green cap sticking over his ear.
The Duke could put more of that notorious whisky under cover, and still contain himself, than any man they ever had seen in Misery. The more he drank the glummer he became, but he never had been known either to weep or curse.
"Ah," thought he, "there's one passage of my life which I never shall be able to reveal to any human soul." "Come now, Eric," said Wildney, "I've got something to propose. You shall play cricket to-day; you haven't played for an age, and it's high time you should. If you don't you'll go mooning about the shore all day, and that'll never do, for you'll come back glummer than ever."
"The Dago was all right to-day, except he seemed a little glummer than usual. He didn't eat any supper though but that's nothing. Lots of times the birds in here get off their feed," and the deputy warden made a comprehensive gesture.
I never knew Lord De Burgh," said Katherine. "Yes, you did, dear! Why, you cannot know what is going on if you have not heard that old De Burgh died nearly a fortnight ago in Paris, and our friend has come in for everything. He had just returned from the funeral, so he said, and is looking darker and glummer than ever. Well, you know how he used to run after you.
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