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Her brief animation dropped away from her; she became again passive, inert, save that she still seemed to be watching. Scott broke the silence, kindly and practically. "We ought to reach the châlet at the head of the pass soon," he said. "You will be glad of some tea." "Oh, are we going to stop for tea?" said Dinah. "That's the idea," said Scott. "And then back by another way.
It was not until the vessel came to a brief anchorage in the strait off Port Townsend, the port of entry to Puget Sound, and Matt went ashore to clear his ship, that the duplicate telegram sent in care of the Collector of the Port, was handed to him. He read and reread it. The news it contained seemed too good to be true.
He recognised my brother, and appeared glad to see him. 'What brings you to London? said he. Whereupon my brother gave him a brief account of his commission. At the mention of the hundred pounds, I observed the eyes of the painter glisten. 'Really, said he, when my brother had concluded, 'it was very kind to think of me.
The arms of the father had then and there been bequeathed to the son, and with the arms a mission for their use. After a brief pause, Samson told of the funeral. He had a remarkable way of visualizing in rough speech the desolate picture; the wailing mourners on the bleak hillside, with the November clouds hanging low and trailing their wet streamers.
The dark curtain that veils the rankling corruptions of mortality had not yet been lifted before my staring eyes, and I felt as one gazing at a beautiful world, and regarded the fair maid as the angel destined to unfold all its brilliance to my vision, and to hold the chalice to my lips while I sipped the nectar of perennial felicity. Alas, that such moments are brief!
Then indeed she opened her eyes wide with joy and astonishment, saying: "Can it be possible? is not this a delusion? Tell me what it all means." I gave her a brief account of what had happened, and sent her to prepare my wife. How glad she was to see me you may well imagine.
Now and then one of the gamblers would lift his head to take a look at the new-comers, and for a brief instant young Breckenbridge would find himself gazing into a pair of hard, steady eyes. Then the eyes would be lowered and the player would go on with the game. It was during this uncomfortable interval of general sizing-up that the proprietor entered, a red-faced man and short of stature.
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For a minute longer, during which brief space the young Indian probably expected to see some vision of the Pale-faces, did he linger near; and then, with a musing air and softened mind, he trod lightly along the path which led on the trail of his people.
Mama leaps for joy, junior relapses into idiocy, and no one including me really believes mama when she says it happened. This sort of thing goes on for several months brief, erratic flashes of extraordinary intelligence, considering the subject.
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