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A little melancholy, it must be said—well, very melancholy—but on the whole a rather sporting fellow.†
p. 64.5 *

melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
A little melancholy, it must be said—well, very melancholy—but on the whole a rather sporting fellow.†
p. 64.5
But my years on the plantation, and my memory of John Willard's agent on the docks, had twisted something in me—I was everywhere uneasy in my skin, and this made me irritable and nervous and desperately melancholy, though I could not then have expressed it so.†
p. 210.3
I do not mean to suggest he was not saddened—certainly there were moments when he was less excitable, melancholy.†
p. 320.1
I suppose it's the Goff temperament—even Henrietta and Judith are often melancholy.†
p. 351.9

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