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The grass, of a burnt-green, almost gray color, looked like worn velvet here and there, showing the weft and spotted with earth.
A sash of light blue silk encircled his waist, and the costly gray cloak thrown back a little from his shoulders revealed a silk lining of the same delicate blue tint. His gauntlets were made of the finest buckskin, and a gold-hilted small sword swung from his sash. "A dandy," thought Harry, "but the bravest of the brave, for all that."
Hilliard turned nurse, a puzzled, anxious nurse. He would sit up in his living-room half the night, and when sleep overpowered his anxiety he would fall prone on the elk-hide rug before his fire. At last Sheila pulled herself up and crept about the house. She spent a day in the big log chair before Hilliard's hearth, looking very wan, shrinking from speech, her soft mouth gray and drawn.
"If he dares," growled Glenister, while his thick brows came forward and ugly lines hardened in his face. In the gray of the early morning they descended the foot-hills into the wide valley of the Nome River and filed out across the rolling country to the river bluffs where, cleverly concealed among the willows, was a rocker.
She shook her head. "Somehow I could never quite trust him. He would live strictly by the letter of the law but the spirit " "Expect people to live by the spirit these days, little girl?" inquired Louis, with an affectionate glance at her. She gazed straight back. "Yes. You do it and so does Stephen and Father Gray and Uncle Calvin."
Cold, and pale, and sweet, was it indeed only a flower, this cloistered rose of the Hotel Dieu? "Breathe it," said the gentle Gray Sister; "sometimes the air of the hospital offends. Not us, no; we are used; but you come from the outside." And she gave her rose for this humble use as lovingly as she devoted herself to her lowly taxes.
Most of them were conservative by political tradition and hereditary instinct, and conservative also in military ideas and methods. They distrusted the "brilliant" fellow, and were inclined to think him unsafe; and they were not quick to allow young men to gain high command at the expense of their gray hair and experience.
I don't know to this day what magic word he said, but the inspectors took never a peep into his belongings. Doubtless they knew him, and that his word was as good as his bond. All her choicest linen strewn about on the dirty boards, all soiled and rumpled and useless! When the colonel's turn came, Warburton moved within hearing distance. How glorious she looked in that smart gray traveling habit!
"She is sixty years old, and has more thousands of francs-a-year than she has hair in her gray moustache or wrinkles on her face; she is so superbly fat that one of her gowns would serve as a tent for this honorable company. I hope to present my future spouse to you on Shrove Tuesday, in the costume of a shepherdess that has just devoured her flock.
Beyond it the green hills with their steep gray cliffs rose and receded, like a coast line, head after head. To Ally the scene was desolate beyond all bearing and the house was terrible. Her eyelids pricked. Her mouth trembled. She kept her back turned to Greatorex while she stifled a sob with her handkerchief pressed tight to her lips. He saw and came to her and put his arm round her.
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