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She gave him for his pains sometimes a light, and sometimes a dark butterfly, with different degrees of blurred or enlarged and vivid markings, from chrysalids subjected to exactly the same amount of exposure. The Butterfly Man was burning to complete his notes, already assuming the proportions of that very exact and valuable book they were afterward to become.
He had evidently little grasp of fact, and moved in a kind of haze, through which all clear outlines would show blurred and unreal. Sometimes most often, perhaps that haze would be irradiated with sanguine visionary hopes and expectations. Sometimes it would be fitfully darkened with all the horrors of despair. But whether in gloom or gleam, the realities of his position would be lost.
There, with her back to the door, stood Kitty. Her aspect startled him to his feet. She looked at him, trembling her little face haggard and white, with a touch of something in it which had blurred its youth. "William!" She put both her hands to her breast, as though to support herself. Then she flew forward. "William! I have done nothing wrong nothing nothing! William look at me!"
I die for you gladly, knowing that by doing so I can easily relieve my own dear little girl of one trouble in life, and make her course lie henceforth through smoother waters. Be happy! be happy! Good-by, my Dolly! Your mother's love go forever through life with you! "Burn this blurred note the moment you have read it.
So Langholm came back from sultry London to a world of smoke and rain, with furnaces flaring through the blurred windows, and the soot laid with the dust in one of the grimiest towns in the island; but he soon shook both from his feet, and doubled back upon the local line to a rural station within a mile and a half of his cottage.
She'd see you, I think, if you want to come. She has scarcely seen an English person in the last three years." And as when a gleam searches out some blurred corner of a landscape, there returned upon him his visit to the pair in their country home.
Just as pleasantly confused were her thoughts, pictures of which her drowsiness blurred the outlines, so that she passed with no effort from the flecked stream she had just left to the moonlit field she and her maidens had encircled a few nights before, chanting harvest songs.
My memory of these days is very much blurred, every day being pretty nearly the same as the preceding one, fatiguing marches, little rest and comparatively little fighting.
Also the sounds of their travelling offered an analogous contrast. The dull crunch, crunch, crunch of the snow-shoes, the breathing of the living beings, the glither and creak of the sledge came to the ear blurred and confused; utterly unlike the cameo stillness of the winter dawn. Ten minutes of the really violent exertion of breaking trail warmed Dick through. His fingers ceased their protest.
Allen's voice seemed to grow distant to Sheila, the figures of the men in the group blurred, the light danced, she reeled in the saddle, tried to check herself, failed, and toppled limply forward over her pony's neck. She heard an exclamation, saw Dakota spring suddenly from the doorway, felt his arms around her.
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