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They all seemed at his very feet; but he had sense to see that they were long miles away. And to his right rose moor after moor, hill after hill, till they faded away, blue into blue sky. But between him and those moors, and really at his very feet, lay something, to which, as soon as Tom saw it, he determined to go; for that was the place for him.
Wentworth, solemnly. He had arranged in his mind a little speech; but now it quite faded away. He felt almost frightened.
Gwynplaine would have been much astonished had any one told him that Dea had ever been, even for a moment, in danger; and in a week or two the phantom which had threatened the hearts of both their souls faded away. Within Gwynplaine nothing remained but the heart, which was the hearth, and the love, which was its fire. Besides, we have just said that "the duchess" did not return.
She turned pale; all the peach-bloom hues faded from her lovely face, her great eyes seemed to lessen and grow dull and her cheeks to fall in. Indeed, for a moment she looked old, very old, quite an aged woman. Moreover she wept, for I saw two big tears drop upon her white raiment and I was horrified. "What has happened to you?" I said, or rather gasped.
Her hand shook with a violence which recalled her to herself, and when she raised her eyes they looked as though the iris itself had faded. The Dago Duke seemed absorbed in the curious effect. He could hear the dryness of her mouth when she asked at last "You expect me to put my name to this?" He inclined his head. "It is impossible!" He replied evenly: "It is necessary."
Above them, in the gap of the hills, Jupiter already blazed, and as the last of the light faded, star after star came out to keep him company. He praised her roasting of the partridges. "To-morrow," she answered, "you shall take your gun and get me game. We must be good providers. To-morrow " "To-morrow and for ever and ever " He poured wine and drank it slowly. "Ah, look up at the heavens!
A few moments later there followed a prolonged howl and a noise as of a beaten carpet. Sir Charles listened with a smile which gradually faded from his good-humoured face. "The fellow must not overdo it," he muttered. "I would not do the lad an injury, whatever his deserts may be. Ambrose, run out on the balcony and call him off. This has gone far enough."
With his knife he cut off an armful, and when he returned with it into the light of the fire the bakneesh glowed like a mass of crimson flowers. The woman had risen to her feet, and looked at him speechlessly as he scattered the vine over the box. He turned to her and said, softly: "In honor of the dead!" The color had faded from her face, but her eyes shone like stars.
Lawn sleeves, purple, perhaps, for who is more hopeful than this type of woman in the golden moments of life? perhaps even an archiepiscopal throne faded from before the eyes they had gladdened the eyes of faith in a man. And a different woman was beginning to appear a woman who might be as critical as she had formerly been admiring, a woman capable of becoming embittered.
She was a delicate blonde, and when she began to recognize these bounds of life she faded a little into a still neutrality that might soon have made an old woman of her. The sisters were dark, wholesome wenches, known as trainers at the gatherings they were always summoned to enliven; but Lydia seldom found their mirth exhilarating.
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