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Kate stood by the dining-room window watching the fast-falling snow. It had been a long day to her a long, weary, aimless day. She had tried to read, to play, to sing, to work; and failed in all. She had visited Mr. Richards; she had wandered, in a lost sort of way, from room to room; she had lain listlessly on sofas, and tried to sleep, all in vain.
He had put Mme. de Beauseant into her traveling carriage, and received her last farewells, spoken amid fast-falling tears; for no greatness is so great that it can rise above the laws of human affection, or live beyond the jurisdiction of pain, as certain demagogues would have the people believe. Eugene returned on foot to the Maison Vauquer through the cold and darkness.
'Do they never come now? inquired Archie, from the doorway. 'Not even in wild, lonely places like this, for he was gazing out upon the moor, and the fast-falling darkness added to the mysterious loneliness of the far-stretching prospect before him. His words gave Pat a new idea. 'Your stories can't have to do with this moor, Nance, he said. 'You didn't live here when you were young, I know.
Meanwhile Claire, trembling from head to foot, looked out through the window at the little garden, white with snow, where Sidonie's footsteps were already effaced by the fast-falling flakes, as if to bear witness that that precipitate departure was without hope of return. Up-stairs they were still dancing.
But the lash did not fall on the backs of the ready animals. Mr. Macksey never beat his horses they were willing enough without that. Lanterns had been lighted and hung on the sleds, to shed their warning rays through the storm. They now gleamed fitfully through the fast-falling snow. "Are you feeling better now, Daddy?" asked Ruth of her father, as she glanced anxiously at him.
"Oh, I am terribly sorry! Sit here now, and let me comfort you." "Oh! I can't, Aneta. You don't understand me not a bit." "Better than you think, perhaps; and I am terribly sorry you are troubled. Oh, perhaps I know. I was told to-night that your mother had married again. You are unhappy about that?" Maggie immediately dried her fast-falling tears. She felt that she was in danger.
Then King, too, began to draw back, slipping quietly and swiftly through the screen of tree and bush, stepping in the tracks he had made coming hither, praying suddenly for further fast-falling snow to hide or obliterate the trail he had made. And for the moment he was not thinking of the gold which they, too, sought, and which he had meant to snatch away from under their noses.
Heads ducked to keep out of their faces the fast-falling flakes, they trudged along in silence until within a few doors of Mother McNeil's house, and then Carmencita looked up. "Do do you ever pray, Mr. Leimberg pray hard, I mean?" "Pray!" The Damanarkist drew in his breath and laughed with smothered scorn. "Pray! Why should I pray? I cut out prayer when I was a kid. No, I don't pray."
Now the fast-falling sun flung its banner of gorgeous colours across the western sky. Immediately a wonderful light played upon the fleecy cumuli gathered in the upper heavens of the east and changed them from pearl to brilliant scarlet. For a moment, also, the purple hills became wonderful piles of dull gold and copper; a moment more and the magic hand of the King of Day was withdrawn.
You know what you've got to do." "All right, guv'nor." "Good night, then," said Victor, as he left the stable. He did not stay to finish his cigar under the fast-falling snow; but walked back to his own room, where he slept soundly. He was astir very early the next morning.
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