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Since the house had been closed to visitors, and a notice to the effect had been posted in the village, scarcely a soul had penetrated through its enclosing woods, except Miss Amberley, who came to teach Daunts crippled child. And now in one evening here were three assaults upon its privacy! But as to the third he was soon reassured. "Hullo, Daunt, is that you?
"Dinny, if he's spared," he would say, "will be a credit to us all yet. The sorra one of him but's as manly as anything, and as longheaded as a four-footed baste, so he is! nothing daunts or dashes him, or puts him to an amplush: but he'll look you in the face so stout an' cute, an' never redden or stumble, whether he's right or wrong, that it does one's heart good to see him.
But there is no cancer hospital so large and populous as Kalawao and Kalaupapa; and in such a matter every fresh case, like every inch of length in the pipe of an organ, deepens the note of the impression; for what daunts the onlooker is that monstrous sum of human suffering by which he stands surrounded.
The German machine-guns seem to be endless; they are skilfully concealed, and worked with the utmost ability and courage. But nothing daunts the troops attacking day and night, in the name of patriotism, of liberty, of civilisation.
"Oh no!" she told him with a smile. "I'm afraid I shouldn't have noticed such a commonplace thing, even if it had been very plain." He made a sign of comprehension. "Then what have you seen?" he asked. "Unapproachable, stainless whiteness, touched with an unearthly glory that daunts the mind!" Then her expression changed. "But the sight is too overpowering to talk about.
Daunt laughed and his merriment helped to relieve the situation still more. "Oh, I say, Lana! This isn't a trap set by the Daunts. You come right in! I'm leaving!" "I didn't mean to overhear," the girl faltered. "You and I have nothing to apologize for either of us! I take nothing back, but this is no kind of a time to go forward. I'd be taking advantage of your confusion."
The libertine wanted a virtuous woman for a wife. The adventure was full of danger, but danger of a kind that never daunts the least courageous man, for love and pleasure followed it.
They should have been familiar and friendly. But this morning they were strange and sinister. The skyline which daunts the emigrant as he comes up the bay to his new home struck fear into Kirk's heart. He turned away and began to walk up and down the deck. He felt tired and lonely. For the first time he realized just what it meant to him that he should never see Hank again.
I listened with amazement and could not help exclaiming: "But, Edmund, how could you learn all this in so short a time?" "Because," he replied, smiling, "the language of the mind, unhampered by dragging words and blundering sentences, plays back and forth with the quickness of thought. There is another thing, too, which I have learned, a thing so amazing that it daunts me.
In the childishness of her soft years, she almost wept at another channel for so much natural tenderness. It was half the woman gaining a woman-friend, half the child clinging to a new playmate. "Ah, Sibyll," she whispered, "do not leave me to-night; this strange place daunts me, and the figures on the arras seem so tall and spectre-like, and they say the old tower is haunted. Stay, dear Sibyll!"
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