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I could not, for the life of me, keep that strange tone out of my voice. Silas Foster, obtuse as were his sensibilities, seemed to feel the ghastly earnestness that was conveyed in it as well as Hollingsworth did. He immediately withdrew his head, and I heard him yawning, muttering to his wife, and again yawning heavily, while he hurried on his clothes.
We have, as before, a horseman, indicating that the agent is one of the same general character, differing mainly in his features and mission. This horse was of a livid, cadaverous hue, denoting an agent of ghastly, terrible nature. The living rider bore the awful name of "Death," or as in the original, "The Death," by way of emphasis.
They immediately sent the tidings of this event to Sikander, who hastened to the spot, and the opening daylight presented to his view the wounded king. Dismounting quickly, he in sorrow placed The head of Dárá on his lap, and wept In bitterness of soul, to see that form Mangled with ghastly wounds. Dárá still breathed; and when he lifted up his eyes and beheld Sikander, he groaned deeply.
"About Mantes, I should imagine. He started for Havre by the last train. He will be at Southampton, to-morrow, and the same day he can reach " He stopped, gazing at his companion with a cold, cruel satisfaction. The blood was sinking in her cheeks, not with a sudden impulse, but gradually as the sunset rose-tints fade from the brow of the Jungfrau, leaving a ghastly opaque whiteness behind them.
"Sudden I woke, nor knew the ghastly fear That held me not like serpent coiled about, But like a vapour moist, corrupt, and drear, Filling heart, soul, and breast and brain throughout; My being lay motionless in sickening doubt, Nor dared to ask how came the horror here.
The beauty straightway vanished; they read commandments, all-excluding mountainous duty; an obligation, a sadness, as of piled mountains, fell on them, and life became ghastly, joyless, a pilgrim's progress, a probation, beleaguered round with doleful histories of Adam's fall and curse behind us; with doomsdays and purgatorial and penal fires before us; and the heart of the seer and the heart of the listener sank in them.
He found his daughter writhing on the sofa, ghastly, and grinding in her hand the cursed paper that had poisoned her young life. "My child! my child!" "Oh, papa! see! see!" And she tried to open the letter for him, but her hands trembled so she could not.
And when I went away, your honour, and left him hammering there faith, I thought that the coffin was like to be seasoned by another kind of salt water too." His face twitched and the ready tears sprang to his own eyes which, unashamed, he now wiped with his sleeve after his custom. But Sir Adrian's mind was still drifting in distant ghastly companionship.
When opened, several huts revealed a ghastly sight of human skeletons. Some were seen in such unnatural positions, as to give the idea that they had expired in a faint, when trying to reach something to allay the gnawings of hunger.
But no response came, and the five ghastly figures on the raft remained as stiff and motionless as before. A swift change passed over Guy's face. "Merciful heavens!" he cried. "Can it be? All dead!" He gasped for breath, beating the air with stiffened fingers, and then dropped like a log.
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