" said Maggie, putting her arm through Tom's as he was warming himself rather drearily by the kitchen fire.
He was about to get down and lead his horse through the damp dirt of the hollow farmyard, shadowed drearily by the large half-timbered buildings, up to the long line of tumble-down dwelling-houses standing on a raised causeway; but the timely appearance of a cowboy saved him that frustration of a plan he had determined on,—namely, not to get down from his horse during this visit.
Wilkins must be, but she was afraid—and her fear was the result of a drearily unvarying experience—that he might wish to hang about her.
Wilkins that her April for that year had then and there been settled for her that she dropped the newspaper with a gesture that was both irritated and resigned, and went over to the window and stared drearily out at the dripping street.
There sat her mother and Cousin Stickles drearily, grimly knitting.
Frederick and Cousin Stickles talking the eternal, niggling gossip of the clan, as they knitted drearily at interminable black stockings.
There was not a gleam of beauty anywhere—"exactly like my life," thought Valancy drearily.
They got scorched out by and by, and drearily set about getting breakfast.
