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He looked at Lady Cressage for an instant, and knew there was something shuffling and nerveless in the way his glance then shifted to the dim mountain chain beyond. His heart fluttered surprisingly inside his breast, during the silence which ensued. "Surely you must have said everything now that you wished to say," she observed at last.
A single word passed between her and the servant, just as Ralph reached her side; but he only heard her inquiring in the ordinary way for the young lady who had just taken up her residence there. The door was flung wide open, as if she had been expected, and the servant led the way into what, in the dim light, seemed a small drawing-room.
Aunt Pen never suggested picking out certain puckered bits and grimy stitches, for she knew that just there the little fingers trembled, and the blue eyes got dim as they touched and saw the delicate, flowery bits left from baby's gowns. Lizzie was full of sympathy, and came hopping over on her crutches with her only treasure, a black rabbit, to console her friend.
Nothing could be more delightful than his talk as we sat together on the veranda looking out over the sea, with the gilded dome of the State House, which he pointed out to me as ``The Hub, in the dim distance. One question of his amused me much. We were discussing certain recent events in which Mr. Horace Greeley had played an important part, and after alluding to Mr.
He held a lariat in his hand that was attached to the bit of the horse following, and upon which was mounted Celeste Seldon. In the dim gray of early dawn, Seldon saw that the eyes of Celeste were blindfolded, and her hands rested in her lap, as though bound. Behind her came, in single file, five outlaws, and like their leader, they were masked.
If you live, it is as certain as fate that you will come to the second and the third. Your 'eyes will grow dim, your 'natural force' will be 'abated, your body will become a burden, your years that are full of buoyancy will be changed for years of heaviness and weariness, strength will decay, 'and the young men' that is you 'shall utterly fall.
Joe put down the telephone, and stepped quietly over the room and out into the hall. Even at that moment the hall door burst wide and a frenzied push and squabble of men poured forth upon him. In that brief glimpse, in the dim storm-light, Joe saw faces that were anything but human wild animals, eyes blood-shot, mouths wide, and many fists in the air above their heads.
Charles was the first to reach the log house against which the brushwood had been piled. In the dim light of dawn his face could be seen wearing a look of concentrated purpose. He had lately passed an open hut from whence the inhabitants had fled, and he carried in his hand a smouldering firebrand.
Preacher and pagan stood together by the hearth, and saw perish the Gospel of Fear of gloomy asceticism which for so many centuries, in dim, damp cloisters and stony cells has chilled the heart and quenched the spirit.
His wife, taking Charlotte's hand in hers, led her forward at once. "You'd never ha' guessed, Dan, as I'd have so much luck," she said. "I met our young lady in the street, and I made bold to 'ax her and come and see you, and she come off at once. This is our Miss Harman, Dan dear." "Our Miss Harman," repeated the dying man, raising his dim eyes. "She's changed a goodish bit."
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