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The lamps were dead; the tents were dark; the music was stilled; and the low, soft roar was but a hollow mockery of its earlier strength. Like specters men staggered slowly and wanderingly through the gray streets. Gray ghosts! All was gray. A vacant laugh pealed out and a strident curse, and then again the low murmur prevailed. Benton was going to rest.
After about five minutes search from wall maps to bound volumes of blocks and back again it appeared that "Wade Street" more frequently known as "Washington Street" meanders wanderingly from Silver Street, in the colored section out to the "Gorge addition" inhabited by low economic level whites. On she went past the offices of a large Chicago packing house.
As it was, these resources were in great measure frittered away gradually drawn by what appeared an irresistible influence into the vortex of the Rebellion or scattered wanderingly through the Loyal States, and worn down and exhausted in the support of dependent and outcast families. Sharpsburg was greatly altered. The yellow Rebel Flag designated almost every other building as a Hospital.
You have been simply jumping at conclusions." "Perhaps," he answered wanderingly. "But if I tell you, upon my honor, that you are mistaken, will you believe me?" I asked, still feeling a touch of irritation.
Shortly afterward, he had gone to town on the Fourth of July, been drunk for several days, lost his money at a faro table, ridden a saddled Texas steer on a bet, and disappeared with a fractured collar-bone. All this my aunt told me huskily, wanderingly, as though she were talking in the weak lapses of illness.
And in their day, he wanderingly reflects, "when leaving an unborn son he died; when she in dying gave me birth, the ancient air, full of yearning and foreboding, no doubt pierced its sorrowful way to them too, the ancient air, which has asked me before this, and asks me again in this hour, to what possible end, what destiny, I was born into the world?... To what destiny?... The ancient song tells me over again: To spend myself in longing and to die!...
From a few hundred yards off in the northwest, beyond the far corner of an old field and the woods at its back, two gunshots together, then a third, with sharp, hot cries of alarum and command, and then another and another shot, rang out and spread wanderingly across the tender landscape.
"The household servants have 'downed tools, madame," said Richardson. "Downed tools!" exclaimed Sophie; "do you mean to say they've gone on strike?" "Yes, madame," said Richardson, adding the information: "It's Gaspare that the trouble is about." "Gaspare?" said Sophie wanderingly; "the emergency chef! The omelette specialist!" "Yes, madame.
I seem to remember talking, wanderingly, to myself during that last spurt. I was also very thirsty, and bitterly regretful I had drunk no more water. It is a curious thing that I felt angry with my wife; I cannot account for it, but my impotent desire to reach Leatherhead worried me excessively. I do not clearly remember the arrival of the curate, so that probably I dozed.
Shortly afterward he had gone to town on the Fourth of July, been drunk for several days, lost his money at a faro table, ridden a saddled Texan steer on a bet, and disappeared with a fractured collarbone. All this my aunt told me huskily, wanderingly, as though she were talking in the weak lapses of illness. "Well, we have come to better things than the old Trovatore at any rate, Aunt Georgie?"
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