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Yes, France is full of Silhouettes of Sunshine. There was the eloquent Y. M. C. A. secretary. And while he didn't exactly know it, he too was adding his unconscious ray of light to a dull and desolate world. The Gothas had come over Paris the night before, and so had a group of some one hundred and fifty new secretaries.
You do a good deed when you send me a letter, for you comfort a very desolate heart."
So he gashed it across with his stone knife, as you see it to-day. Fifty years ago the name Blackfoot was one of terrible meaning to the white traveller who passed across that desolate buffalo-trodden waste which lay to the north of the Yellowstone River and east of the Rocky Mountains.
He looked at everything lingeringly, for he knew that this desolate prison was the last bit of the world he should ever see. Presently the gas was turned out. He sighed as he felt the darkness close in upon him, for he knew that his eyes would never again see light knew that in this dark lonely cell he must lie and wait for death.
The kernel of winter itself is spring, or a sleeping summer. It was no wonder that the fool, cast out of the earth on a far more desolate spot than this, should seek to return within her bosom at this place of open doors, and should call it home. For surely the surface of the earth had no home for him. The mound at the foot of the gable contained the body of one who had shown him kindness.
"There's one thing to remember," he said. "What?" "All the troubles of this world are born with wings." Risley laughed, as he spoke, in his half-cynical fashion. As Robert walked home for there was no car due he felt completely desolate. It seemed to him that everybody was in league against him.
The fugitives felt a chill of awe, but in a moment or two they threw it off, only to have its place taken a little later by the real chill of the coming night. A wind began to moan over the desolate plain, and their faces were stung now and then by the fine grains of sand blown against them. But as the Lipans were gaining but little, Ned and Obed still walked their horses.
It was desolate and lifeless far as the eye could see, west and north. But away to the northeast, perhaps seven miles or so, a faint column of smoke was rising against the skies.
Miles out at sea, on the desolate rocks of the Farallones, gleamed the powerful rays of one of the most costly and effective light-houses in the world.
Ever since the age of the Crusades that seaport had been the chief place of arms of Palestine; but the harbour was now nearly silted up, and even the neighbouring roadstead of Hayfa was desolate. The fortress was formidable only to orientals.
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