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The wind which sang dismally around him reminded him with a sickening blur of homesickness of the many pleasant evenings he and Evelyn had spent in their little shack, with the same wind making eerie music in the pipe of the stove. Yesterday and to-day were separated by a gulf as wide as death itself. He had gone about three miles when he heard a faint halloo come down the wind.
But before Ethel could hear the reply she was called back into the bedroom, where on her bed with both hands clenched Amy was saying: "I can't bear this! Make him give me something quick!" The rest of the night was a blur and a haze, of which Joe was the centre Joe half crazed and impatient, making impossible demands.
They obeyed, listlessly as ever, with no wondering voice raised to inquire why they had not lowered the coffee they had hoisted. Captain Swarth looked at the square-rigged ship, now on the port quarter an ill-defined blur to his imperfect vision. "Fine chance we'd have had," he muttered, "if that happened to be a bulldog.
As first the thing was a blur, a kaleidoscope of whirling colors, into which there presently crept form and order. ... A boy who had cried to get on, and was now crying to get off. ... Old Rube Hobson and his young wife; Rube looking white and scared, partly by the whizzing motion, and partly by the prospect of paying out ten cents for the doubtful pleasure. ... Pretty Hetty Dunnell with that young fellow from Portland; she too timid to mount one of the mettle-some chargers, and snuggling close to him in one of the circling seats.
In the nearer foreground, along the lines of the wharves and docks, a wilderness of masts and spars of a tone just darker than the gray of the mist stood away from the blur of the background with the distinctness and delicacy of frost-work. But amid all this grayness of sky and water and fog one distinguished certain black and shifting masses.
"Oh, it is all very well for you to talk like that, Ellis; but nothing you say can lessen the bitterness of parting from Valmai. It is my own wish to go, and nothing shall prevent me; but I could bear the separation with much more fortitude if only " And he stopped and looked landwards, where the indistinct grey blur was beginning to take the pattern of fields and cliffs and beach.
Through her thick veil the clusters of lights in the Spragg drawing-room dilated and flowed together in a yellow blur, from which, as she entered, a figure detached itself; and with a start of annoyance she saw Ralph Marvell rise from the perusal of the "fiction number" of a magazine which had replaced "The Hound of the Baskervilles" on the onyx table.
A third time the dark patch the hand of one who, ghostly, silent, was creeping down into the hallway vanished and reappeared on a level with my eyes. Then a vague shape became visible; no more than a blur upon the dim design of the wall-paper... and Nayland Smith got his first sight of the stranger. The clock on the mantelpiece boomed out the half-hour.
I care nothing for the stories now" a hopelessness would come into my voice "but I do not care for her either. I never did, and I never could." My eyes were away on Burnett's Mound, and the sweet remembrance of Marjie's last affectionate look made a blur before them. We stood in silence for some time.
Let your choice be guided by circumstances; they are the safest guide, for they are not of our own making. "I do not suppose," he continued, "that I shall ever see you again on earth, as you proceed with your journey to-morrow; and indeed I think it will perhaps be as well that this should be our last conversation, so that nothing else should interfere to blur the impression.
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