Dingily

Yonder dingily white remnant of a huge snowbank,—which will yet cumber the sidewalk till the latter days of March,—over or through that wintry waste must I stride onward.

Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt in places, rising high, Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen;

Gracie died just at the time when I had no emotion whatsoever to spend on her: dingily, surrounded by nurses and heartless starched blouses, in a Bournemouth nursing home.