mournfully

Adverb

 * 1) In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
 * 2) * 1836, (translated into English by Mrs. H. B. Paull in 1872),
 * "Why have not we an immortal soul?" asked the little mermaid mournfully; "I would give gladly all the hundreds of years that I have to live, to be a human being only for one day, and to have the hope of knowing the happiness of that glorious world above the stars."