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Common as light is love, sang Shelley; and equally common with beauty and truth and love is all that is most vital to the soul, all that feeds it and gives it power; if aught be lacking, it is the eye to see and the heart to understand. Grain, fruit and vegetable, wool, silk and cotton, gold, silver and iron, steam and electricity, were not all, like the spark, within arm's reach of savage man?
With the mother instinct she began to regain control of herself that she might help him. "It will not be for long," she assured him. "And every step of your way I shall pray for, your safety," she whispered. He held her at arm's length while his gaze devoured her, then silently he wheeled away and plunged waist deep into the drifts.
"Yes, I I believe it, now. But I can't see why. There must be so many attractive girls in the city, who know so much more than I do." I sought fervidly to reassure her on this point.... At length when we went into the house she drew away from me at arm's length and gave me one long searching look, as though seeking to read my soul. "Hugh, you will always love me to the very end, won't you?"
"Your husband does n't seem to have explained me very successfully!" Mrs. Gordon held Bernard's intended for a moment at arm's length, with both her hands, looking at her with eyes of real excitement and wonder. Then she folded her in a prolonged, an exaggerated, embrace. "Why did n't he tell me why did n't he tell me?" she presently began.
There were none of the usual means and materials of illusion at hand; neither space, nor distance, nor cunning lights; it was a confined tavern room with some glaring tapers, and Sidonia himself was almost within arm's reach of the performers. Yet a representation more complete, more finely conceived, and more perfectly executed, he had never witnessed.
The company passed out into other rooms until no one was left but Mrs. Blakesly, the professor, and Ware. Miss Powell was talking again, and to Ware mainly. Ware was thoughtful, Miss Powell radiant. "I didn't know what life was till I could do that." She took up a large dumb-bell and, extending it at arm's length, whirled it back and forth.
"Holloa, shipmate! fallen foul of a pirate, mayhap haven't slipped your wind, ha' ye, messmate?" "No; but I believe my arm's broken, and I have a pistol ball between my ribs." "Which way did the lubbers sheer off? Shall we clap on sail, and give chase?" "It is of no use. I know one of them well. They shall not escape me." "Why, I know that voice.
Tea had been made and was standing on the table. She was waiting. She rose, with a faint cry, as Majendie entered. She put her arms on his shoulders in her old way. He loosened her hands gently and held her by them, keeping her from him at arm's length. Her hands were cold, her eyes had foreknowledge of the end; but, moved by his touch, her mouth curled unaware and shaped itself for kissing.
Scott understood dimly that many people in the India of the South ate rice, as a rule, but he had spent his service in a grain Province, had seldom seen rice in the blade or the ear, and least of all would have believed that, in time of deadly need, men would die at arm's length of plenty, sooner than touch food they did not know.
The deputy had been awakened by the prowling of the fugitive around the house in search of a horse. Sallying out, they had met, and Ira's gun, which stood in the kitchen, and which the deputy had seized, had been wrested from him and used with fatal effect at arm's length, and the now double assassin had escaped on the sheriff's horse, which was missing.
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