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Max turned at last from the bed, nodded briefly to the nurse, and went as silently as a shadow from the room. Another shadow waited for him on the threshold, and in the light of the passage outside the room they stood face to face. "She will live," said Max curtly. "And " said Nick. He was blinking very rapidly as one dazzled. "Yes; her reason is coming back. She knew me just now." "Knew you!"
At the time I speak of I was a lad, dazzled by the idea of wealth, and respecting, certainly too much, my uncle's superior age and station in life. There is no need to particularise here the little arrangements made between us; the playmen of the present day want no instruction, I take it, and the public have little interest in the matter. But simplicity was our secret.
People of a low, obscure education cannot stand the rays of greatness; they are frightened out of their wits when kings and great men speak to them; they are awkward, ashamed, and do not know what nor how to answer; whereas, 'les honnetes gens' are not dazzled by superior rank: they know, and pay all the respect that is due to it; but they do it without being disconcerted; and can converse just as easily with a king as with any one of his subjects.
In a few moments they had paused before the door of the room where the detective lay confined. Hartmann threw it open and pushed Grace inside, while he and Mayer followed, closing the door behind them. For a moment Grace was dazzled by the brightness of the light cone, and the darkness of the remainder of the room.
Poor Geraldine," he went on, as if to himself, "in what words am I to tell you of your brother's fate? How can I excuse myself in your eyes, or in the eyes of God, for the presumptuous schemes that led him to this bloody and unnatural death? Ah, Florizel! Florizel! when will you learn the discretion that suits mortal life, and be no longer dazzled with the image of power at your disposal?
The house was filled, and, as we entered, a murmur went about, and then cries broke forth, the multitude rose with cheers and bravos, calling my name, intoxicated with enthusiasm, and dazzled, not by a daring feat, but by the spirit that prompted it.
I am blessed that today I come to see you, for I have learn all at once so much that again I am dazzled, dazzled more than ever, and I must think. "Yours the most faithful, "Abraham Van Helsing." 25 September, 6:30 P.M. "My dear Dr. Van Helsing, "A thousand thanks for your kind letter, which has taken a great weight off my mind.
Almost of the same length as the passenger steamer, which she now approached obliquely, she rode the long swell with perfect grace, and many of her deck-houses and part of her prow shone with the brightness of pure gold. Full the sun fell upon her in a sheen of shimmering splendour, throwing great reflected lights which dazzled the eye so that it could scarce hold any continued gaze upon her.
But then, in the hot summer days, when the blinding dust whirls in clouds through our streets, when the eye, dazzled by the glare of white stucco, knows not where to rest, and the glowing roofs reflect their heat upon us to burning, the old soldier will sit in his arbor and perceive nothing but green leaves and flowers around him, and the breeze will come cool and fresh to him through these perfumed shades.
We gaze and turn away, and know not where, Dazzled and drunk with beauty, till the heart Reels with its fulness; there forever there Chained to the chariot of triumphal Art, We stand as captives, and would not depart." Away with those fictions of flimsy romance! Those tissues of falsehood which folly has wove!
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