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Whin I gets me discharge I'd better go round to the tother side o' the airth' than go home to me woife." Nor were his apprehensions allayed as he saw Mr. Arnot reading the paper with a darkening scowl; but for the present Pat was left in suspense as to his fate.
Madeline was about to make known her presence, but her ear caught the fragment of a sentence in which her name held prominent place. Acting upon impulse, she remained a silent, unsuspected listener. And so began in her heart and life that drama of pain and passion, sin and mystery, that should close round, and harden and blight, the darkening future of Madeline Payne.
She had scarcely looked at Sir Norman since she began to speak, but he had done enough looking for them both, never once taking his eyes from the handsome darkening face. He thought how strangely like her story was to Leoline's both shut in and isolated from the outer world.
And evening stealing in from the wild places, from darkening azaleas upon distant hills, still found them in the garden, found Rodriguez singing in idleness undisguised, or anxiously helping in some trivial task, tying up some tendril that had gone awry, helping some magnolia that the wind had wounded.
To subdue the proud young spirit, to make her the mother of children like himself, the boys destined to be thieves, and the girls squatter women, was his one ambition. That he was old enough to be her father made no difference to him. He was watching her as she stood in the darkening twilight, gloating over the thought that his vicious dreams were so near their fulfilment.
We must sometimes weep, and when we do, it should be done with chastened spirits for real sorrow, that we may be the calmer and happier when we recover from the shock of grief. Such weeping is a gracious and healthy exercise. It does not check the true joyousness of Girlhood's nature, nor cast any darkening line into the future character. April suns are all the brighter for April showers.
And so they went on, jestingly. "Menie," said Arthur, suddenly, "what do you see in the fire?" Menie was gazing with darkening eyes, in among the red embers. She started when her brother spoke. "I see Oh! many things. I see our old garden at home, in Clayton, I mean and " "It must be an imaginary garden, then. I am sure you canna mind that." "Mind it! indeed I do.
At this point his thoughts were interrupted by the darkening of the moon by a thick cloud, and the sudden descent of deep shadow on the town as if all hope in such a blessed consummation were forbidden. Turning at once to the parapet of the terrace, he mounted, but paused a moment, as he endeavoured to gauge the distance of the opposite wall, and gazed into the black gulf below.
A grey shape came racing out of the darkening east, and Stepney put his helm over as the destroyer smashed past on her way to Gibraltar. He watched the stern light disappearing, then it suddenly turned and presented its side to them. "They're looking for us," said Marcus. The darkness had come down, and he headed straight for the east.
On and on they sped, neck and neck, through the darkening woods; fire flashed now and again from their iron-shod hoofs; often a splash and a shower of drops told of a swift dashing through the mud-holes that recent rains had fostered in the shallows. The dank odor of dripping boughs came on the clear air.
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