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You look as wo-begone as the individual who drew Priam's curtain at the dead of night. Come! my young savage, why are you so sad?" Verty sat down, murmuring something. "Speak out!" said Mr. Roundjacket, wiping his pen. "I'm not very sad," Verty replied, looking perfectly disconsolate "what made you think so, Mr. Roundjacket?" "Your physiognomy, my young friend.
The column stretched out longer and longer, like a piece of India-rubber. The ranks looked thin and ragged. Lame and foot-sore, with wo-begone faces, their bodies aching in every bone and tendon, and overcome with a weariness that no one can realize unless he has "been there," the men dropped out one by one and threw themselves into the fence-corners to rest.
He was in fact dying of the disappointment of his passions. They could not have been gratified. Success takes an exulting aspect. He was always miserable and wo-begone always desponding, sad, unhappy, from the first moment when this passion began, to the last." "Guilt, guilt, nothing but guilt!" "No, Clifford, no!
"Stragglers and marauders, sir," said a Sergeant of the Provost Guard, saluting the Colonel, who was one of the circle lying cozily about the fire, pointing as he spoke to a squad of way-worn, wo-begone men under guard in his rear. "Here is a list of their offences. I was ordered to report them for punishment." "A new wrinkle, that," said the Colonel, as the Sergeant left.
He said he had no objection; and having privately stored away, in a shady place in the forest, two or three dozen juicy bears, a moose, and twenty strings of the tenderest birds, he would retire from the lodge so far as to be entirely out of view of his grandmother, fall to and enjoy himself heartily, and at night-fall, having just dispatched a dozen birds and half a bear or so, he would return, tottering and wo-begone, as if quite famished, so as to move deeply the sympathies of his wise old grand-dame.
"Perhaps," said the Baronet, smiling, "I might accommodate you even on that point." "Oh, I should like it of all things, my jewel. Some dark oaken room, with ugly wo-begone portraits that stare dismally at one, and about which the housekeeper has a power of delightful stories of love and murder.
The last speaker of all was the old Piankeshaw, whose meaning could be only guessed at from his countenance and gestures, the one being as angry and wo-begone as the latter were active and expressive.
It shows Johnson in the market-place of Uttoxeter, doing penance for an act of disobedience to his father, committed, fifty years before. He stands bare-headed, a venerable figure, and a countenance extremely sad and wo-begone, with the wind and rain driving hard against him, and thus helping to suggest to the spectator the gloom of his inward state.
This, however, I cannot personally vouch for, as my attention was engaged at the moment by the adverse claimant, the Honorable James Kingston, who exhibited one of the most irresistibly comic, wo-begone, lackadaisical aspects it is possible to conceive. He made a hurried and most undignified exit, and was immediately followed by the discomfited "family" solicitors.
The strange man with a keg of liquor the mountain ravine the wild retreat among the rocks the wo-begone party at nine-pins the flagon "Oh! that flagon! that wicked flagon!" thought Rip "what excuse shall I make to Dame Van Winkle!" Irving's story has furnished the material for eight or ten plays, the most successful of which was written by Dion Boucicault.
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