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"And when the birds are flying from the cold, and the clouds are black with their feathers, can he see them too?" "Ay, ay, it is not hard to find a duck, or a goose, when millions are darkening the heavens." "When the snow falls, and covers the lodges of the Long-knives, can the stranger see flakes in the air?"
She was his his in spite of his ugliness and his crooked shoulder. No man could ever take her from him. But she did come again. One evening, when the darkening grove was full of magic in the light of the rising yellow moon shining across the level field, Roger sat on the big boulder by the grave.
As she spoke, Helmsley looked at her steadily, his face darkening with a shadow of weary scorn. "I see!" he murmured coldly. "You do not care to over-fatigue the heart's action by unnecessary emotion. Quite right! If we were all as wise as you are at your age, we might live much longer than we do. You are very sensible, Lucy! more sensible than I should have thought possible for so young a woman."
I knew there were worlds of meaning in the words into which I could hardly hope any of them would enter. But I knew likewise that the best things are just those from which the humble will draw the truth they are capable of seeing. Therefore I read as for myself, and left it to them to hear for themselves. Nor did I add any word of comment, fearful of darkening counsel by words without knowledge.
Still looking at the fire he watched the glowing embers, now reddening, now darkening or leaping up into sparks of evanescent flame, and presently stooping, picked up the little dog Charlie from his warm corner on the hearth and fondled him.
"I'd move to California and teach meditation," Atmananda replied. On August 30, 1979, Atmananda, Dana, Rachel, Connie, and I left the ground in a jet bound for San Diego. In the excitement of packing and leaving, I had forgotten my wallet and daypack back at my brother's. Now, without money or ID, I watched rays of light play off darkening clouds and thought about the frog. Bicycle Ride Lenox
But even so, the two places were as effectually separated as though miles, and not yards, intervened. No breath of air stirred the generous spruce and darkening pinewoods.
"Benedetta!" murmured Irene, at length opening her eyes, unconsciously, upon him who knelt beside her, eyes of that uncertain, that most liquid hue, on which you might gaze for years and never learn the secret of the colour, so changed it with the dilating pupil, darkening in the shade, and brightening into azure in the light: "Benedetta," said Irene, "where art thou? Oh, Benedetta!
Then came a rush of two or three soldiers darkening the doorway, but it was only to lay hold of the key, pull the door to, and lock it; so that once more Curdie and Lina were prisoners together. For a few moments Lina lay panting hard: it is breathless work leaping and roaring both at once, and that in a way to scatter thousands of people.
It was not pity that restrained him, for, at the first sound of the enfeebled voice, a red fire kindled in his eyes, and he made a quick pace forward, with something inexpressibly fierce and grim darkening forth, as it were, out of the whole man. To know Judge Pyncheon was to see him at that moment.
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