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She looked colder than any moon in the frostiest night of the world, and where she shone direct upon them, cast a bluish, icy gleam on the white sheets and the pallid countenances but it might be the faces that made the moon so cold! Of such as I could see, all were alike in the brotherhood of death, all unlike in the character and history recorded upon them.
Across the blankness of his features shot a joyous gleam; it spread, brightening till he was radiant. "I get you!" he chortled. "Collusion! They think I'm standing in with Clayte Oh, boy!" He threw back his head and roared. I looked at my watch; quarter of ten; a little ahead of my appointment.
But a faint and partial gleam of sunshine broke through the aperture and made yet more cheerless the dreary aspect and gloomy appurtenances of the cell.
Here and there tossed the white plume of the English helmet, rising and falling like the foam upon a wave, with the fierce gleam and sparkle ever circling round it until at last it had sunk from view, and another brave man had turned from war to peace.
"I trust, at least, you have not forgotten Richard Bluewater?" continued the Duke, "he who fell in our last action with the Comte de Vervillin?" A gleam of intelligence shot into the rigid and wrinkled face; the eye lighted, and a painful smile struggled around the lips. "What, Dick!" he exclaimed, in a voice stronger than that in which he had previously spoken.
When consciousness returned, I felt a little stronger, and a faint gleam of hope and life came back to my soul. Abraham and his devoted wife Nafatu lifted me and carried me to the top of the hill.
"Bunny has a man's strength. You haven't. It's too dangerous a game for you, see? And I won't have it." "All right," said Toby, picking up her riding-whip and turning to go. He stretched out a hand to detain her. "You'll give me that promise," he said. She paused for a second, and met the unswerving determination of his eyes. Then a sudden gleam of blue fire lit her own.
What misfortune had attended them all from the sons of Chupin, the miserable traitor, up to her father, the Marquis de Courtornieu, whose mind had not been illumined by the least gleam of reason for ten long years before his death. "My turn will come!" she thought.
The lady had reached the couch, and sank into it. She was in black still, but gauzy, clinging black, which seemed to give some gleam of purple underneath. And if he had not been sure that in daylight he had thought they were green, he would have sworn the eyes which now looked into his were deepest violet, too. "Come," she said. "You may sit here beside me and tell me what you think."
But as the sunlight vanished, a veil sank from the face of the moon, already half-way to the zenith, and she gathered courage and shone, till the mountain looked lovely as a ghost in the gleam of its snow and the glimmer of its glaciers.
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