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Three days ago I could say that the green of the woods had no touch of hectic in it; but already the low trees of the swamp-land have flamed into crimson. Every morning, when I look out, this crimson is of a fierier intensity, and the trees on the distant uplands are beginning slowly to kindle, with a sort of inner glow which has not yet burst into a blaze.
"No," cried the Prophet, with sudden fierce energy. "For mercy's sake I mean, grannie, dear; that none will come. If they should" his ordinary gentle eyes flamed almost furiously "Mr. Ferdinand is to burn them unread yes, to ashes. I will tell him." And he escorted Lady Enid tumultuously downstairs, missing his footing at every second step. In the square they parted from Mr. Green, who said,
He is heart-broken." "I think you exaggerate my influence over him," I retorted. "I haven't treated him badly, because I haven't paid any attention to him." Anne threw up her hands. "There you are!" she said. "He worked all day yesterday fixing this place for you yes, for you, my dear. I am not blind and last night you refused to let him bring you up." "He told you!" I flamed.
And the next week, having equally divided their little capital, the mother and son parted Traverse, by her express desire, keeping to his original plan, set out for the far West. "At this sir knight flamed up with ire! His great chest heaved! his eyes flashed fire. The crimson that suffused his face To deepest purple now gave place."
And it was in the violet flamed dusk as he sat with his immortal friends ranged around that Mrs. Matilda brought the treasure home to him. She was a very lovely thing, a fragrant flower of a woman with the tender shyness of a child in her manner as she laid her hands in his outheld to her with his courtly old-world grace.
Only when her heart flamed did she disdain that real haven of refuge, with its visionary mount of superiority, offered by Society to its effect, in the habit of ignoring the sins it fosters under cloak; not less than did the naked barbaric time, and far more to the vitiation of the soul. He fancied he was moulding her; therefore winning her.
I began to pace the room aimlessly; I sat down, I brought my hands despairingly to my head; I repented ever having come to the place. "Cursed be the hour in which I ever accepted such a position," I cried. And I flamed with resentment against the priest of Nichteroy, against the doctor, the vicar against all those who had procured the place for me and forced me to remain there so long.
The moon "walked in brightness," auroras flashed, and meteors flamed, and a sensible presence of Deity seemed to pervade the transparent atmosphere in which we were viewing "the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep."
At these words my heart beat and passion flamed up in me. Stretching out my hand I drew hers away and in the dying light gazed at the face beneath. Lo! on its loveliness there was a look which could not be misread. "Do you, then, also love?" I whispered. "Aye, more, I think, than ever woman loved before.
Looking down Broadway early one evening a shining avenue of joy he thought of the times when he had gazed across a certain valley of his West and dreamed of bringing a message to this spot. Against the sky many electric signs flamed garishly.
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