"This is a very serious question, but, if you really mean it, I will lend you my Prayer Book." Evadne smiled drearily.

High overhead the moon rode, obscured by flying clouds, a wild wrack up-whirling from the south: at fitful intervals was a wind that moaned drearily 'mid the gloom of distant woods, a desolate sound that sobbed upon the air, and dying to a wail, was gone.

Madame Delphine wandered drearily from door to window, from window to door, and presently into the newly-furnished front room which now seemed dismal beyond degree.

" "Well," replied ARCHIBALD drearily, "just as you say.

But what more dim or distantmore drearily, hopelessly notional, than that thought?' 'Only the thought that there is none.

The day passed drearily, but without much suffering to the man in the bed.

But madame still took care to preserve such figure as unkind fate had left her; and monsieur still kept his moustaches waxed to a needle's point; and they sat there together, quite immovable, for hours at a time, staring drearily out toward the horizon, meditating, no doubt, over past glories, or arranging some coup by which their fortunes might be retrieved.

I'm done," she told him drearily.

To emerge, saturated, body and soul, with the sweet scents and sounds and sights of a day's tramp, out of the meditative leafiness and spiritual temper of natural things, into the garishly lit street of some little provincial town, animated with the clumsy mirth of silly young country folks, aping so drearily the ribaldry, say, of Elmira, is a painful anticlimax to the spirit.

He spoke drearily.

Across it the bayou boat wheezed and thumped drearily, drowning the bellowing of the dying steers.

The mountains grew nearly black under the shadow of the clouds, and the storms swept drearily down their passes and defiles, till the scenery looked more like the Hartz than Italy.

The wind swept drearily among the hills; black, gusty clouds covered the sky, and the incessant rain filled the road with muddy pools.

We left the river, and walked over a barren plain, across which the wind blew most drearily.

Every chink of the Norman cottage where I slept, whistled most drearily, and as I looked out the little window of my room, the trees were swaying in the gloom, and long, black clouds scudded across the sky.

This day, which fifteen years ago we marked with a white stone, and which we were to celebrate with all our hearts, has passed quite wearily and drearily.

" She smiled drearily.

Do you know,' she asked drearily, 'why they set us down?'

Perhaps,' the lawyer continued drearily, 'he had it in his mind, and when the time came his heart failed him.'

She marched away on her heelless shoes, her eyes downcast, and Kate, straining her eyes after her friend, smiled to think there had been only Lena to speed her drearily on her way.

I asked, after a pause, during which his pitying eye rested on me drearily.

" I shook my head drearily.

Left thus to myself in some degree, I unclosed the leaves of the bookcase, and surveyed its grim array of "classics"all new and unmarked by any name, or sign of having been readand from them I selected a few worthies, through whose pages I delved drearily and industriously, and most unprofitably it must be confessed.

She insisted on Dr. Englehart again, and, when I shook my head drearily for all reply, begged that I would permit her to state my case to Mrs. Raymond, who might in turn see some able physician about me and procure remedies.

I shook my head drearily, as a couplet from Collins's "Camel-Driver," with its strange appropriateness, irresistibly crossed my brain.