One felt the gloom was sinister.

" HOPE Gloom and despair are really ignorance in another form.

He himself remarked that "extraordinary things can only be stammered," and he stammered in good truth, declaring that "the holy gloom where Rusbrock extends his eagle wings is his ocean, his prey, his glory, and for such as him the far horizons would be a too narrow garment.

Gloom was the first impression; cold was the second.

165. See ante, ii. 81, where he hoped that 'this gloom of infidelity was only a transient cloud.

A gloom that no sun could break had become her shroud.

GLENMORISON, Laird of, v. 136, 140. GLOOM, gloomy penitence, iii. 27; 'it is perhaps sinful to be gloomy,' iv.