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And she was almost too tired to drag herself off the horse when they came to camp. Back among the dark spruce, by the edge of a fast-flowing trout stream, Bill had built a cabin, one of the camps of his trap line.
Just at her leaping of the stream the arrow touched her; and all her body seemed to become a mist that dissolved and floated away, broken into thin fragments over the fast-flowing stream. By the hunter's side his wife lay dead, with an arrow struck into her heart. The door of the house was shut; it seemed to be only an evil dream from which he had suddenly awakened.
The mystery of night in a strange place was wildly picturesque; the pale, greenish, undulating light of fireflies, and the broad, red waving glare of torches flashing fitfully on the skeleton pier, the lofty jungle trees, the dark, fast-flowing river, and the dark, lithe forms of our half-naked boatmen.
They had finished all that they had purposed to do, and were ascending the bank to return home, when they heard an agonized cry and turning swiftly round they perceived that this young girl had stumbled and fallen into the river. They were so horrified at the accident that they lost all presence of mind and allowed the fast-flowing stream to get a grip of her and drag her into the current.
But he sat between the fire and the bed, and, as the fire flickered in the play of air from the fast-flowing river, his enlarged shadow fluttered on the white wall by the bedside. His attitude gave it an air, half of mourning and half of bending over the bed imploring.
Behold him always theatrical looking at Jerusalem this time, by an oversight, with his hand off his pistol for once. "I stood in the road, my hand on my horse's neck, and with my dim eyes sought to trace the outlines of the holy places which I had long before fixed in my mind, but the fast-flowing tears forbade my succeeding.
Each day Mignon shall come to tell you how we speed; each day shall he bring back some testimony of your fidelity to your own Lothair. It was read it was read with gushing and fast-flowing tears tears of wild joy.
The second day after leaving Hui-li-chou we entered the valley of the Anning Ho, a grey, fast-flowing stream whose course runs parallel with the meridian like all the others of that interesting group of rivers between Assam and eastern Szechuan, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Mekong, the Yangtse, the Yalung.
Also, the reaction at finding Stella herself again, and the relief caused by the appearance of Carter, made Molly and Marjorie also break down, and when Carter came bounding up the ladder he found three girls, soaking wet as to raiment, and diligently adding to the general dampness by fast-flowing tears.
Mary! she said, between her gasps, 'to think of last year and Coombe and the two bright boys and the visions and the light in those glorious eyes and that this should be the end! 'Dear, dear Ethel, said Mary, with fast-flowing tears and tender caresses, 'you have kept us all up; you have always shown us it was for the best. 'It is! it is! cried Ethel. 'I do, I will believe it!
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