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But when they got out again at their destination, and walked through the busy streets to the hall where the lecture was to be given, a sort of seriousness fell upon all three. They were each going to work in their different ways for what they considered the good of humanity, and instinctively a silence grew and deepened. Erica was the first to break it as they came in sight of the hall.
We could have gone down to the mouth of the river and visited Captain Eads' great work, the 'jetties, where the river has been compressed between walls, and thus deepened to twenty-six feet; but it was voted useless to go, since at this stage of the water everything would be covered up and invisible.
Leonora's existence had slipped back into its old groove since the departure of Twemlow, and the groove had deepened. She lived by the force of habit, hoping nothing from the future, but fearing more than a little. She seemed to be encompassed by vague and sinister portents. After another brief interlude of apparent security, John's situation was again disquieting.
The drainage was changed by the work of a small stream having its source in the volcanic plateau north of the lake. It deepened its channel and extended its head waters back until they tapped the lake at a point where the rim of the basin was lowest, and so drew away its waters in the opposite direction.
There was a brooding melancholy in his tones, and Sara, hearing it, spoke very gently. "I hope you will find it like that," she said. "I?" He laughed hardly. "No! Those gifts of the gods are not for such as I. The husks are my portion. If it were not so" his voice deepened to a sudden urgent note that moved her strangely "if it were not so "
I saw you, whom I had once before met. I heard you were rich. Hate me, Miss Brandon, hate me! I resolved to make your ruin the cause of my redemption. Happily for you, I scarcely knew you before I loved you; that love deepened, it caught something pure and elevated from yourself.
She was beautiful beyond compare, John repeated to himself, but scarcely more than a child, and she had come into strange places. The stalwart Suzanne also took note, and she moved a little nearer, while her grim look deepened. "We will give you the best hospitality the house affords," continued von Arnheim. "It's scarcely equipped for ladies, although the former owners left "
Like most nervous persons, her feelings were intense. Such condemnation, remorse, and utter despair as took hold of her: it could not be called repentance, for that has "A purpose of heart and endeavour after new obedience." She was in the Slough of Despond. The twilight had deepened into darkness, when sounds indicated an arrival. "Aunt Deborah has come," Florence whispered at the door.
After dinner the guests of both sexes distributed themselves about the front porches and the ornamental grounds belonging to the hotel, to enjoy the cool air; but, as the twilight deepened toward darkness, they gathered themselves together in that saddest and solemnest and most constrained of all places, the great blank drawing-room which is the chief feature of all continental summer hotels.
I saw her breast heave as she spoke, her cheek flushed and paled alternately, the azure of her eyes deepened slowly as the pupils widened in them, till there seemed midnight behind the lashes. I felt a dangerous current stirring in all my blood at her words, a dry spasm seemed in my throat, blocking all speech.
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