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Shading the lamp, so that scarcely a ray of light was visible, Little Wolf curled in behind the window curtain, where she could peep through the crevices of the blinds out on the distant stars and ever shifting clouds, which in the solitude of the night, speak so eloquently to the human heart. Calm and cold was the still hour.
Antonia's words kept running in her lover's head, "I don't like unhealthy people." Well, all these people, anyway, were healthy; they looked as if they had defied the elements to endow them with a spark of anything but health. Just then the curtain rose.
There was a strange light in his eyes. He gazed at her for a moment; then he caught her by the hand and drew her toward the door. "Come!" he said, "Trust me, Kaya. I understand at last I understand. Come!" She yielded without a word. They were both trembling. The second Act was over. The curtain had descended slowly, hiding the singers; the lights had flashed up, revealing the House.
Let no man mock me, for I will kiss her. 'Good my lord, forbear! said Paulina. 'The ruddiness upon her lip is wet; you will stain your own with oily painting. Shall I draw the curtain? 'No, not these twenty years, said Leontes.
I drew my curtain at the same time, and who should I see entering my chamber but his lordship, attended by a constable, and the footman who had discovered my retreat! "Such an unexpected visit could not fail to affect me with surprise and consternation.
By and by as the paroxysm subsided and he became motionless she stole back to the bungalow to wait. Through her door curtain she could see the light from the study lamp. If, when he returned, he blew out the light, she would go to bed; but if the light burned on for any length of time, she would go silently to the study curtain to learn if his agony was still upon him.
"Drink this, little love," she said; "you'll soon be much better, I'm sure." The curtain had fallen on the first half of the performance, and Uncle Ben came up in a huge good humor. "Missy, I hope you aint hurt," he said. "Hurt?" answered Diana. "What do a fall matter? I's as wight as wain. Didn't Orion do well, Uncle Ben?" "Yes, all things considerin'," said Uncle Ben.
If my eyes don't deceive me I can see two fresh nails driven into the archway leading to the back hall. On those nails hung the curtain that prevented you seeing more than was necessary. Are you still incredulous as to the house where you had your remarkable adventure?" "I confess that my faith has been seriously shaken," David admitted. "But about the furniture?
Slowly Anne drew aside the curtain and looked forth into the night, a magic night, soft and wonderful, infinitely peaceful. A full moon shone high in the sky with an immense arc of light around it, many-rayed, faintly prismatic. There was the scent of coming rain in the air, but no clouds were visible. The stars were dim and remote, almost quenched in that flood of moonlight.
Then Zoulmekan waited till nightfall, when he went in to his sister Nuzhet ez Zeman and said to her, "Dost thou know the fashion of my father's death or not?" "I have no knowledge of it," replied she, and drew a silken curtain before herself, whilst Zoulmekan seated himself without the curtain and sending for the Vizier, bade him relate to him in detail the manner of King Omar's death.
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