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The woods were vocal with the hum of insect life, and balm loaded the breezes as they blew softly. These things at first oppressed his senses as so novel, so strange, that his mind almost hovered between the realms of fact and fancy. 'And you ask me of the sea, he chatted; 'to which I answer that it has always made an impression on me, best described as a mixture of awe and gladness.
Presently Joan saw a huge mound of dull, gleaming yellow. The color of it leaped to the glinting eyes of the bandits. And it seemed to her that a shadow hovered over them. The movements of Kells grew tense and hurried. Beads of sweat stood out upon his brow. His hands were not steady. Soon larger bags were distributed to the bandits.
He lay stiff, like a stone, with a weight ponderous as a mountain upon him and all his bound body racked in slow, dull-beating agony. A woman's face hovered over him, white and tragic-eyed, like one of his old haunting phantoms, yet sweet and eloquent. Then a man's face bent over him, looked deep into his eyes, and seemed to whisper from a distance: "Duane Duane! Ah, he knew me!"
He had to return to White Slides, but he was reluctant to do so. Memory of Jack Belllounds dragged at him, and when he drove it away it continually returned. This feeling was almost equivalent to an augmentation of his gloomy foreboding, which ever hovered on the fringe of his consciousness.
Her cheeks flushed, her eyes sparkled, and a happy smile hovered around her lips as she glanced at the clock. "Twelve!" she cried joyously, "twelve! He will come! I shall see him again. Ah, there he is! There he is!" She darted to the door to open it. She had not been mistaken. He was there, the man whom she expected.
As he spoke he waved his goblet aloft, the flute-player, Xuthus, beckoned to the chorus, and the dancer Metrodor, in the guise of a butterfly, led forth a bevy of beautiful girls, who, in the cloud of ample robes of transparent coloured bombyx which floated around them, executed the most graceful figures and now hovered like mists, now flitted to and fro as if borne on wings, affording the most charming variety to the delighted spectators.
There it hung upon the dead man's chin slowly rocking itself to and fro, and we could see the fiery eyes shining in its head. Aghast, utterly aghast, we stood and stared at the hateful sight; till presently the bat spread his huge wings and, losing his hold, sailed to us. Now he hovered before Cleopatra's face, fanning her with his white wings.
His bold attitude was magnificent, his countenance more than beautiful in its love betrayed despair, . . and for a moment the savage Zephoranim paused irresolute, his scowling brows bent on his erstwhile favorite Minstrel with an expression that hovered curiously between bitterest enmity and reluctant reverence.
You get out, Helen, and I'll turn around." Helen ran to her friend who still hovered over the boy. At once she recognized him. "My goodness me! Roberto! isn't that strange? Then he did not go south with the other Gypsies." "It seems not poor fellow," returned Ruth. "Do you suppose he knows all about the necklace how his grandmother became possessed of it, and all?" "I don't know.
The flag of Louisiana whose lone star and red and yellow stripes still hovered benignly over the Ionic marble porch of the city hall, was a year old. A new general, young and active, was in command of all the city's forces, which again on the great Twenty-second paraded.
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