half-gloomily

Updated: May 23, 2025

Doctor Gordon nodded half-gloomily, half-whimsically. "It's so," he said. "We call it earth; but it's hell." James said nothing. The doctor's gloomy theology was too much for him. Besides, he was not quite sure that the elder man was not chaffing him.

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman - 'Doc.' Gordon