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so dimly dreamt of here, because her eyes are gleaming large and clear, and almost unearthly in their brilliance. At first, though somewhat in awe of her, they had sought by tenderest means to draw her from the room.
My first Sunday at Bourron, on this third visit, was of perfect stillness, unclouded brilliance and southern languor, heralding, so we fondly imagined, the very morrow for an excursion.
Like many very shy persons, he had one friend with whom he was completely unreserved, and that was this cousin of his, for whose charm and insouciant brilliance he had so adoring an admiration. He pointed a broad, big finger at him. "Yes, but when you are like that," he said, "you can just float along. Other people float you. But I should sink heavily if I did nothing.
In the peaceful gloom of the verandah, with its lowered screens, they heard faint noises from the world outside in the blazing sunshine: a hail on the river, the answer from the shore, the creak of a pulley; sounds short, interrupted, as if lost suddenly in the brilliance of noonday. Lingard got up slowly, walked to the front rail, and holding one of the screens aside, looked out in silence.
Her eyes were opened very wide, but instead of brilliance or alertness, they spoke of sentiment and dreaminess. Josephine had made a study of looking so. Soulful, she thought it to be; but the girls called it by another name not so complimentary and rallied her good-naturedly about it. Renee was quick, in action and thought. Josephine's slowness annoyed her.
Her hair fell in ringlets upon her neck and shoulders, through which gleamed a necklace of priceless pearls. The festivities were protracted until a late hour in the morning. It was said that Josephine gained a social victory that evening, corresponding with that which Napoleon had gained in the pageant of the day. In these scenes Hortense shone with great brilliance.
Did he or any other conqueror ever acknowledge a success due to the despised outcasts who brought him information? No. The brilliance of combinations, the stroke of genius of the swift march and the decisive blow in flank, the splendid charges these always win in the historian's narrative and public imagination.
Picotee's face was rosed over with the brilliance of some excitement. 'What do you think I have to tell you, Berta? she said. 'I have no idea, said her sister. 'Surely, she added, her face intensifying to a wan sadness, 'Mr. Julian has not been here? 'Yes, said Picotee.
The aims of Catherine II. in 1792 were at last to be realized. While Europe was wrestling with Revolutionary France, the Muscovite grasp was to tighten on Poland. It is not surprising that Alexander, on January 13th, commented on the "brilliance of the present situation," or that he decided to press onward. So irregular a proceeding could only be excused by dire necessity and by success.
Stumbling through dark and tortuous streets where the moon's frosty brilliance was almost completely hidden, I came at last to the waterman's door and knocked. He was in bed and for some time my summons was in vain. At last I heard a sound in the room above, the window was let down and a sulky voice said, "Who's there?" "Is that you, Bagnell?" I answered. "Come down. It is I, Mr.
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