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"Great Heavens, what a haul!" I cried. "But how much did you spend yourself?" "Oh about twenty thousand dollars, Bunny I really felt I could afford it. We'll net not less than one hundred and fifty thousand." I was suddenly seized with a chill. "The thing scares me, Henriette," I murmured. "Suppose these people ask you next winter for a report?"
I shall never forget that scene in the forest the gray arch of the heavens swimming in mist through which the sun peered shiftily, the tall pines wavering through the fog, the preoccupied mules marching single file, the foggy bell-note of the gentle dingue in its swinging basket, and Dorothy, limp kilts dripping with dew, plodding through the white dusk.
"And yet I feel no illness apart from this abominable sensation that persists persists.... Theresa, you must tell me: do I fancy it, or do you, too, feel something strange here?" "Oh, there is something very strange here," she half sobbed. "There always will be." "Good heavens, child, I didn't mean that!" He rose and stood looking about him.
To be indifferent to the possibilities of human life, to ignore the problem, is to turn our back on heaven, which fashioned the spirit of man in its image. If the spirit of man has likeness to Deity, it means that if it manifests itself fully in the world, the world too becomes a shadowy likeness of the heavens, and our civilizations will make a harmony with the diviner spheres.
I was fascinated by its imaginative poetry, so splendid and yet so terrible, which has, in my opinion, never been equalled in any other book of mankind. . . . The beasts with seven heads, the signs in the heavens, the sound of the last trumpet were well-known terrors that haunted and enchanted my imagination.
They graze until about ten o'clock and then sleep on well into the small hours, wake and begin to feed again at dawn," continued the Political Officer. Once a wild, unearthly wailing cry that seemed to come from every direction at once startled the subaltern: "Good Heavens! what's that?" he exclaimed, gripping his rifle and trying to pierce the darkness around them.
He stopped at the door, and said, "Doctor, the saltcellar is by you. Would you mind bringing it on deck? We shall want a little to secure the animal." So they all went on deck right merrily. The captain went up a few ratlines in the mizzen rigging, and looked to windward, laughing all the time: but, all of a sudden, there was a great change in his manner. "Good heavens, it is alive LUFF!"
She turned away, and sat quiet, staring forward intently into the black void. "What time is it now?" "Nearly three." "In two hours it will be dawn." "Yes." I thought I could see her clasp her hands together; then suddenly lean forward. "Why, look there!" she exclaimed quickly. "See! to the right. Merciful Heavens! it is a ship!"
Then the tempest broke, fierce and terrible: the elements seemed mingled together. She lost sight of the chapel in the whirling snow; the heavens rattled overhead; and the wind swept down so that the whole earth trembled. A horror of wrath and darkness has overwhelmed the world; and what of the patient choristers now?
I was all eagerness to see his face, but he kept it averted for some time while employed in unlacing the bag's mouth. This accomplished, however, he turned round when, good heavens! what a sight! Such a face! It was of a dark, purplish, yellow colour, here and there stuck over with large blackish looking squares.
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