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The horse went at an inconceivable speed, keeping a straight line regardless of all obstacles; and Jeanne could see the two outlines of the husband and wife diminish and fade in the distance, till they vanished altogether, like two birds chasing each other till they are lost to sight beyond the horizon. Julien walked his horse up to his wife, murmuring angrily: "She is mad to-day."
"'Know that you're a transient creature, Soon to fade and pass away." The only comfort he could offer to this stricken household was that HE knew how bad they felt, having had a brother who had died with equal suddenness and also without hope, as he "had suosode hisself with a gun."
Take the curtains down in the spring, shake them carefully and brush the dust from them; let them air a day, but not so that the sun will fade them; then fold them neatly, and pin them up in sheets. Moreen or worsted curtains require the same care as woollen cloths. To Keep Blankets in Summer.
The happy wives of young engineers, who had been tented along the line during the summer, watched the wildflowers fade with a feeling of loneliness and deep longing for their stout-hearted, strong-limbed husbands, who were away up in the cloud-veiled hills; and they longed, too, for other loved ones in the lowlands of their childhood.
Her face lay turned towards the children, and they saw the mirth slowly fade in her great black eyes, the lids drop lower and lower, and then she was asleep suddenly. Now she looked almost as young as themselves, and like a pale child who has fallen to sleep at its play. But the children did not stop to look at her. Once they were sure she was asleep they were off searching for the door.
Impressions upon the imagination, however, are but transitory, and a bad man acting under fear is not a free agent; his real character does not appear. But as the images of the imagination fade, and the action of fear abates, the essential qualities of the man reassert themselves.
Would it not be an end to a course in which all our nature would be fully developed and all opportunities of growth and activity had been used to the full? which had secured all that we could possess? which had happy memories and calm hopes? Would it not be an end which brought with it communion with the Highest joys that could never fade, activities that could never weary?
"Maybe they only took her out of the window 'cause the blue silk would fade. I'll go in and ask." A minute later Tommy came out looking sober. "Yes, she's sold, Bessie," he said. "Mr. Blacklock sold her to a lady yesterday. Don't cry, Bessie maybe they'll put another in the window 'fore long." "It won't be mine," sobbed Bessie. "It won't be Roselle Geraldine.
But so terrible was the hunger of her heart for her share of life for loving, serving, planning, and triumphing that she would have swept them all aside like cobwebs to grasp the first reality flung her by fate. Not to stagnate, not to smother, not to fade and shrink like Lydia like Miss Fanny at the library, and the Baxter girls at the post-office!
With the passing years the painter's colors fade; time rots his canvas; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and exists in fragments from which we resurrect a nation's life; but oratory dies on the air and exists only as a memory in the minds of those who can not translate, and then as hearsay. So much for the art itself; but the influence of that art is another thing.
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