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Updated: June 6, 2025
I soon felt a deep curiosity to learn the nature of her employment and office here, and as my knowledge of the language increased I began to question her. My first attempts were vain. She looked at me with indescribable mournfulness and shook her head.
She could not open the door of the cab. The cabman opened it. "Blinds down here, miss!" he said, with appropriate mournfulness. It seemed a rather large house; and every blind was drawn. Had the incredible occurred, then? Had this disaster befallen just her, of all the young women in the world? She saw the figure of Sarah Gailey. "Good afternoon," she called out calmly. "Here I am.
Care the forethought of change even the shadowy and vague mournfulness of passion are felt not in those voluptuous but tranquil moments. Like the waters that rolled, deep and eloquent, before her, every feeling within was but the mirror of an all-gentle and cloudless heaven.
At last the principal artery of the hypogeum appears, a thoroughfare more than five hundred yards long, cut in the rock, where the Bedouins have prepared for us the customary feeble light. It is a place of fearful aspect. As soon as one enters one is seized by the sense of a mournfulness beyond words, by an oppression as of something too heavy, too crushing, almost superhuman.
Battista thereupon asked Barto whether he would try that chance. The answer was a vacuous shake of the head, accompanied by an expression of unutterable mournfulness. 'There's no other way, pursued Battista, 'unless you jump into the Adige, and swim down half-a-mile under water; and cats hate water eh, my comico?
Mournfulness pervaded the deserted room, dirty with saliva and cigar ends, and reeking of spilt drink; while from the hushed boulevard the only sound that came was the distant blubbering of some drunkard. Gagniere, still in the clouds, however, continued to ride his hobby-horse.
The other's grand manner vanished and he grinned. "Forget the 'Mr. Sherwood, or you'll make me feel not at home in my own house," he begged with humorous mournfulness. "Call me Dick. Everybody else does. That's settled. Now to the reason for this visitation at such an ungodly hour. Sis has just been in picking on me. Says I was rude to you last night. I suppose I was.
Dickie, moving uncertainly beside her, murmured, "Like the inside of a cold flame, a very white flame." Sheila turned her chin, pointed above the fur collar of her coat, and included him in the searching and astonished wideness of her look. "You work at The Aura, don't you?" she asked with childlike brusquerie. Dickie's sensitive, undecided mouth settled into mournfulness. He looked away.
In her eyes there seemed even now the look of one who sees death inevitable, and the glance she gave to me was like an eternal farewell. Almah now spoke, addressing herself to Layelah. "Death," said she, in a voice of indescribable mournfulness, "is better here than with you. We would rather die here than go back. Let us, I pray you, receive the blessing of death here.
She wuz goin' to live in a little house Robert had bought for her in San Francisco. Martha, the steady English maid, wuz goin' to live with her, as she had proved faithful. And she added a few heart breakin' words of grief and mournfulness about our dear lost Aronette. And she gin me to understand that sence Aronette's dretful death in New York she had gradually changed her mind about drinking.
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