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And so the long, long night wore on. At midnight came outlandish Indians staggering under the green-curtained palanquins they call doolies: these were filled up and taken away to the Elandslaagte Station. At one o'clock we had the rare sight of a general under a waggon trying to sleep, and two privates on top of it rummaging for loot.
Indians tottered and staggered under green-curtained doolies; Kaffir boys guided spans of four and five and six mules drawing ambulances, like bakers' vans; others walked beside waggons curling whips that would dwarf the biggest salmon-rod round the flanks of small-bodied, huge-horned oxen. This tail of the army alone covered three miles of road.
The feminine Carrolls had been speaking of this old aunt that spring day as they sat idly in the little green-curtained temple beside the pond.
It gains rather than loses by reproduction; since the painting now shows a strange disagreeable colour most unlike the carnations of Holbein. Between the sitter and the green-curtained background stands perhaps the ghastliest of all Holbein's skeletons, one hand on his scythe, the other grimly pointing at the nearly-spent sands of the hour-glass.
In the dramatis personae of Redwood Camp he was a simple "super" who had only passive, speechless roles in those fierce dramas that were sometimes unrolled beneath its green-curtained pines.
Paul Dangerfield, who was not troubled either with vapours or superstitions, as he lay in his green-curtained bed in the Brass Castle, had as many dreams flitting over his brain and voices humming and buzzing in his ears, as if he had been a poet or a pythoness. He had not become, like poor Sturk before his catastrophe, a dreamer of dreams habitually. I suppose he did dream. The beasts do.
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