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And just then Ashton-Kirk stumbled rather heavily against Haines; the lantern dropped to the ground and was extinguished. "I beg your pardon," said the investigator in a rueful tone; then he began to rub his shins. "That was rather hard, whatever it was."
"Ah, dear my lady, thy wilfulness hath e'en now brought thee into dire perils and dangers. O rueful day!" "Nay, Godric, my wilfulness hath brought me unto my heart's desire. O most joyful day!" "Lady, I do tell thee here is an evil place for thee: they do say the devil is abroad and goeth up and down and to and fro begirt in mail, lady, doing such deeds as no man ever did.
The stranger lent this reasoning his gloomy meditation, which turned it inwards to himself and his rueful history. "I don't follow you, I believe," he said, "for very good reason. I hope you will never learn as I have that it does matter where you are." He stopped, then added, as if the admission was wrung out of him, "I've been in prison." "So have I," said Senhouse, "and in Siberia at that.
"You seem more scared than when we were behind the logs, with the Shawanoes and Hurons on the outside," said Jack; "I don't understand how that can be. I am sure there is less to dread from these Indians than from them." "It ain't de Injins dot makes me feel so bad," replied Otto with a rueful expression, "but fader." "What's the matter with him?"
"The country is beautiful in the autumn, isn't it, Mark?" Mark was as embarrassed as any small boy caught in truancy. "I thought you took things rather quietly, Father I might have known it was too good to be true. What did you come here for? You surely knew it was something we could not have you concerned in." The priest laughed at Mark's rueful tone.
This was a rueful state; this was a lamentable form of God's Church. It was a misery to live therein, without the Gospel, without light, and without all comfort. Wherefore, though our departing were a trouble to them, yet ought they to consider withal how just cause we had of our departure.
I had a place in a lumber-yard, but the man he failed up already. I am hopin' that I shall get something more steady soon." "It will be pretty hard for you to go in debt." "Yes," with a rueful shrug. "But we're unlucky. Poor folks 'mos' always is unlucky already." "Well, now, you let me pay these expenses. Here's my card. Tell the undertaker to send his bill to me.
Nearly frozen, very tired, 'fed up' with the weather, as all of them were, they were always cheerful, and the man who missed his footing and floundered in the mud regarded the incident as light-heartedly as his fellows. An Army which could face the trials of such a night with cheerfulness was unbeatable. One section of the force did regard the prospects with rueful countenances.
'What is this? he cried in a raised voice. 'You do not know where she is? You jest, M. de Marsac. 'It were a sorry jest, I answered, summoning up a rueful smile.
For as she turned, Frieda stepped on her train, and with shrieks both fell to the floor, splitting their hundred-year-old seams. Miss Lyndesay helped them up, laughing at their rueful faces, and kissing away the tears that would come at the sight of the havoc they had wrought. "Cheer up, dear hearts! It was purest accident. And Millicent's pretty gowns have served their purposes long ago.
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