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The lamp of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be transparent, thy whole body shall be enlightened. But if thine eye be vitiated, thy whole body will be darkened. If therefore the light which is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! No man can serve two masters: for he will either hate the one, and love the other; or he will adhere to the one, and disregard the other.
"I never saw five other human beings with such a capacity for getting out of danger." "We were all at Wyoming, and we all still live." The face of the New Englander darkened. "Wyoming!" he exclaimed. "I cannot hear of it without every vein growing hot within me." "We saw things done there," said Henry gravely, "the telling of which few men can bear to hear." "I know!
As the clear atmosphere of the valley became darkened by the shadows of the night, and the colours of the hills faded into an uniform black, the groups would gather round the various mess tents, and with vermuth, cigarettes and conversation pass away the pleasant half-hour before dinner and "sniping" began.
We were left in the middle of the yard, in the rain, under the gray sky without the sun. Then we went mutely away to our damp stone cellar. As before the sun never peeped in at our windows, and Tanya came no more! An Episode Darkened by the dust of the dock, the blue southern sky is murky; the burning sun looks duskily into the greenish sea, as though through a thin gray veil.
I left the others still seated about the table, and returned alone to the outer deck. I had no plans for the evening, and retain now only slight recollection as to the happenings of the next few hours, which I passed quietly smoking in the darkened pilot house, conversing occasionally with Thockmorton, who clung to the wheel, carefully guiding his struggling boat through the night-draped waters.
Every fact in the history of emancipation proves the reverse; and he that will not believe those facts, has darkened his own understanding, that the light of reason can make no impression: he appeals to interest, not to truth, for information on this subject. We do not fear his errors, while we are left free to combat them. The Senator implores us to cease all commotion on this subject.
Indeed, it was admitted by the chaplain and other witnesses for the prosecution that the young lady had a softening influence on her husband, and that he became less exacting with his tenants, less harsh to peasants and dependents, and less subject to the fits of gloomy silence which had darkened his widowhood.
'I'll astonish him yet. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Annette holding the letter rigidly; her eyes moved from side to side under her darkened lashes and frowning darkened eyebrows. She dropped the letter, gave a little shiver, smiled, and said: "Dirrty!" "I quite agree," said Soames; "degrading. Is it true?" A tooth fastened on her red lower lip. "And what if it were?" She was brazen!
"Yes," he said emphatically, "she appears to have help enough. I must think over her case and see her again to-morrow." The old man's look suddenly darkened. "Ain't she better:" he asked. "She's not so much better that there's no danger of her being worse," the Young Doctor replied decisively. "I certainly must see her to-morrow."
And further misfortune was in store for her when she crept into the cave to prepare Ben's supper. A pack rat one of those detested rodents known so well to all northern peoples had carried off in her absence two of the three remaining sticks of jerked caribou. For a moment she gazed in unbelieving and speechless horror, then made a frenzied search in the darkened corners of the cabin.
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