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There for about a year, with occasional short sallies, on errands that arise, Fouquet sat successfully vigilant; resisting the Devilles, Becks, Harsches; protecting Glatz and the Passes of Silesia: in about a year we shall hear of his fortunes worsening, and of a great catastrophe to him in that Landshut Post.
As one labours in London and sinks into a dream, remembering the hills wherein he spends a lonely summer, among Westmorland's fells and by the becks, so the Boer, called cityward, looks back upon the wide and lonely veldt which is never too wide and never lonelier to him than to any of the beasts he loves to hunt. But the fauna disappear, and ancient civilisations crumble.
From your rawest infancy you were as much distinguished, as Milton represents the goddess Hebe to have been, by "nods and becks and wreathed smiles;" with this difference, that in her they were marks of gaiety, and in you of demureness; that in her they were unrestrained and general, and in you intended only for a single confidant.
The situation of Lastingham in a deep and picturesque valley surrounded by moors and overhung by woods is extremely rich. Further to the west there are a series of beautiful dales, watered by becks whose sources are among the Cleveland Hills.
For the dense woodlands, which are often merely pretty in midsummer, become astonishingly lovely as the foliage draping the steep hill-sides takes on its gorgeous colours, and the gills and becks on the moors send down a plentiful supply of water to fill the dales with the music of rushing streams.
And over there, in Arendal, she could, of course, count upon being able to make her own terms against her husband, the unpopular pilot could be sure of having every one on her side, from her aunt to these same Becks." Yes; and what was the real history of her connection with the Becks? He had never had that matter satisfactorily cleared up.
She opened the Becks' front door and saw Becky at the end of the entry trying to escape to the garden. "Don't let's be grumpy," she said in a friendly tone, "I've come over to make up." Becky tried to preserve a stern expression, but somehow there was a warmth at her heart which suddenly came to the surface in a smile and the two girls were friends again.
I've come off my watch; I wanted to have a word with you about Elizabeth." His tone was so strangely low and sorrowful, that the old woman saw that there must be something unusual the matter; and she opened the door. "About Elizabeth, you say?" "Yes where is she stopping now?" "Where is she stopping? why, with the Becks, of course. Is there anything the matter?"
For him the sweeping hues, the intricate broideries green or russet, red or purple of this winter world! for him the delicacy of the snow, the pale azure of the sky, the cloud-shadows, the white becks, the winding river in the valley floor, the purple crags, the lovely accents of light and shade, the hints of composition that wooed his eager eye.
Beauties whirled by to the toilet, statesmen passed on to the senate, dandies took flight to the clubs; and neither nods, nor becks, nor wreathed smiles said to the solitary spectator, "Follow us, thou art one of our set."
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