" "I wish you could," she responded dully, with an attempt at a smile.

But why the Devil do I askYes, you are still the same; one of those hoiting Ladies, that love nothing like Fool and Fiddle; Crouds of Fops; had rather be publickly, though dully, flatter'd, than privately ador'd: you love to pass for the Wit of the Company, by talking all and loud.

" "Youyou have broken your engagement," he echoed, dully; and continued, with a certain deficiency of finesse, "

"No," I said dully, "He has been most discreet.

The fluctuations of fortune in fictionand almost in real lifehave ceased to interest, or operate but dully upon me.

To what purpose doth the Pia Mater lie in so dully in her white formalities; sure she hath had hard labour, for the brows have squeezed for it, as you may perceive by his buttered bon-grace that film of a demicastor; 'tis so thin and unctuous that the sunbeams mistake it for a vapour, and are like to cap him; so it is right heliotrope, it creaks in the shine and flaps in the shade; whatever it be I wish it were able to call in his ears.

A little pool covered them, and made its way to a corner of the table; then the drops began again, splashing dully one by one upon the floor.

An oriflamme of scarlet burned in the west, flickered dully in the dirty, curdling water, flared against the windows of the Pemberton, which quivered and dripped, Asenath thought, as if with blood.

" "To a man," she went on, dully, "it means to take some womanthe nearest woman who isn't actually deformedand to make pretty speeches to her and to make her love him.

"But I canna pay," he said dully.

she said dully.

O wise, and dear to God, old man well born, Who in so many, so fair ways, make fair This world, how shall your dues be dully paid? Doomed by eternal charters to adorn Nature and art, yourself their mirror are, None, first before, nor second after, made.

They distinguished the sound of the breadfruit as they rolled dully upon the large leaves, and then the silvery sound of cups filled with pape miti and the miti noanoa from which a pleasant aroma arose.

The day came when he began to wonder dully how and why he found himself in a freezing cabin with Doctor Thomas, in fur cap and arctic overshoes, tending him.

"I'm glad you struck it rich," she murmured, dully.

"Pauvre garçon!" repeated Simpson dully.

"This is wrong," he said dully; "wrong.

The very lamp seemed oppressed by the heavy air; it burnt dully, surrounded with a yellow haze.

" Markham watched her a moment in silence, his wounds aching dully.

He spoke dully and evenly, indifferently.

" "What do you mean?" demanded Dunwody dully.

"I'm lonely at times," he went on dully, evasively, "you don't know how lonely.

"But I can't promise," said the man dully.

The polished chairs and tables shone dully in the fast waning light of the December afternoon, cheerless and unfriendly looking.

" Perry sat down dully and looked disapprovingly at all the neckties.