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Of animal life there was no movement amid the majestic vaulted aisles which stretched from us as we walked, but a constant movement far above our heads told of that multitudinous world of snake and monkey, bird and sloth, which lived in the sunshine, and looked down in wonder at our tiny, dark, stumbling figures in the obscure depths immeasurably below them.
"But that I need you," he said evenly, "but that your knowledge of English makes you an invaluable ally and one not easily replaced I would send you back to Houdania disgraced! As it is, we are hedged about with peculiar difficulties and I must use and watch you." He glanced significantly at the desk drawer and thence to Themar's dark, unscrupulous face, resentful and defiant.
She was then within a few days of her sixteenth birthday, a slight figure in a riding habit, rather shorter than the average height for her age, in a black bowler hat from under which her fine rippling dark hair cut square at the ends was hanging well down her back. The delightful Charley mounted again to take the two horses round to the mews.
It was a black dark night. The violence of the wind almost lifted me from my feet; not a star could be seen but occasionally a sharp hailstorm pelted down.
When in the dark winter's mornings the wife crept back again to her post, and all that could be done in those early hours had been effected, Sister Constance went to the half-past seven o'clock service with Felix and Clement, imparting to them on the road that the Superior of St.
The morning was unusually dark and grey, even for October, and as leaves, brown and sere though they were, still clustered thickly on the trees, Copplestone quickly found himself in a gloom that would have made a nervous person frightened. He also found that his forward progress became increasingly difficult.
Where, but to her lover, the circus-rider, the boy with the head of brown curls, with the ring on his finger and the Cupid mouth! Where would she go but to the man with whom she had spent the night on the prairie! Now he believed altogether that she was guilty, that everybody had conspired to deceive him, that he was in a net of dark deception.
Doolittle, "that a bill of this kind, that proposes to establish a military despotism over eight million people and a country larger than England, France, and Spain combined, is to be pressed to a vote in this Senate the first day it is taken up for consideration." "If the measure will not bear argument," said Mr. Hendricks, "then let it be passed in the dark hours of the night.
"Yessir, and I've brought you some tea." The room was dark, but darkness seemed to fall on it as she spoke. "But why are you waiting on me, then?" he said slowly. "Don't you know that you that you " "Please, Mr. Lancelot, I wanted to come in and see you." He felt himself trembling. "But Mrs. Leadbatter told me she wouldn't let you do any more work."
"Poor Quigley's cake is dough," observed one of the incumbent's friends in an undertone, standing with his hands in his pockets, and gazing through the long dark vista of the hall out of the door into the sunlight's glow, as it fell upon the few houses and the great stretch of arable land beyond.
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