We may be considered weaker or stronger, wiser or more simple, younger or older, gladder or sadder, than we are; but for the self-deception on that point by the average observer we are not responsible.

breath not that killing language: There is no sunne but in your eyes, and when I once take leave of those celestiall beames I meet with darkenes in my habitation; Where stretch'd on sable ground I downe shall lay My mournefull body, and with folded Armes Heare sadder noats uppon the Irish harpe And drop division with my brinish teares.

" Keturah returned to her apartment, a sadder if not a wiser woman.

" Then turning my sad eyes to theirs, I said, "Francesca, seethese human cheeks are wet Truer and sadder tears were never shed.

And so I clambered up the bank And threw the blossom down, But we were sadder for its sake As we walked back to town.

still sadder, is the story of the two Bethunes.

Time passed by; Somacuel each day grew sadder and gloomier.

Sad thoughts and sadder misgivingsundefined yearnings and ungratified longings seemed to have taken their flight with the Old Year, and it was with fresh resolution and cheerful hope, and a happy heart, she welcomed the Glad New Year.

But a fitful sleep, and soon again I woke; and a long time I lay so, gradually becoming conscious of a slow dripping at one spot in the cave: for at a minute's interval it darkly splashed, regularly, very deliberately; and it seemed to grow always louder and sadder, and the splash at first was 'Leesha,' but it became 'Leda' to my ears, and it sobbed her name, and I pitied myself, so sad was I.

There she had tied my boat to a slender linden-trunk: and sadder now than Gethsemane that familiar boat seemed to my eyes, for I knew very well that I should never enter it more.

But of the two the camp was the sadder sight.

I hope never to see a sadder sight than that poverty-stricken little family.

Right sweet were the linen cloths upon the bed, and so soft the pillow, that he who lay thereon would sleep, were he sadder than any other in the world.

When the agèd lord understood these words, never was there a sadder man than he.

Now you will quit capering in a lady's chamber, and go to work, a sadder and a wiser man.

I regard your case, perhaps, with even sadder emotions than that excellent family-physician who has been sounding its depths these four years with a golden plummet, and has never yet touched bottom.

No wonder you grow sadder as time passes and the beloved one comes not, and comes not.

And so the story, slight though it is, ends on a strong note and with fair hope of happiness for two wiser and not much sadder people.

The lot of Mrs. Browning and Charlotte Brontë was much sadder and more depressing than that of George Eliot; more of darkness and pain affected their lives.

But how much sadder is the form of the mighty spirit, who once sat regnant among the sons of light, emptied of his innocence, filled with foul, creeping, venomous thoughts and feelings, uncrowned, dethroned only with malignity and throned in evil!

Thy silence is a sadder thing Than any dirge I sing!"

Nor amongst women were any sadder than Deirdré and Grania; craftier than Meave, more winsome than Nessa the mother of Concobar.

Lavretsky spoke to him harshly, and ordered him out of the room: afterwards he told the old man he was sorry he had done so; but this only made Anton sadder than he had been before.

He turned one wistful glance upon his idle forge; he turned a sadder eye upon his companion.

" Mrs. Woodford did speak plainly of the boy's rooted belief in his own elfish origin, and how when arguing against it she had found the alternative even sadder and more hopeless, how well he comported himself as long as he was treated as a human and rational being, but how the taunts and jests of the young Archfields had renewed all the mischief, to the poor fellow's own remorse and despair.