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Madeline's sustaining faith upheld her in the face of this appalling obstacle. Then the desert that had rolled its immensity beneath her gradually began to rise, to lose its distant margins, to condense its varying lights and shades, at last to hide its yawning depths and looming heights behind red ridges, which were only little steps, little outposts, little landmarks at its gates.
Then I fell and bruk my arm, an' I can't git down 'thout bein' holped a little." There was another silence, so intense that it seemed to Nick as if he were all alone again in the immensity of the mountains, and the black night, and the endless forests. He had expected an immediate proffer of assistance from Barney.
If you had not made the offer to me, I should have asked you to let me stay with you." Madame Desvarennes broke into such an outburst of joy that she astonished Panine. It was then only that in that pallor, in that sudden trembling, in that changed voice, he understood, the immensity of the mother's love for her daughter. "I have everything to gain by that arrangement," continued he.
I desire the happiness of others, because I desire my own; and the desire of the happiness of others we call benevolence and love. Now, my most worthy Raphael, let me look round. The height has been ascended, the mist is dissipated; I stand in the midst of immensity, as in the middle of a glowing landscape. A purer ray of sunlight has clarified all my thoughts.
If you knew the author you would like him even better than his book. I have told him to send you Risler and Tartarin. I am sure in advance that you would thank me for the opportunity of reading these two books. I do not share in Tourgueneff's severity as regards Jack, nor in the immensity of his admiration for Rougon. The one has charm, the other force.
His profound stillness, suggesting an interminable patience, gave him a beautiful immensity of his own. Anne, left in her charmed, inviolate circle, surrendered sweetly to the spirit of Westleydale. The place was peace folded upon the breast of peace. Presently she spoke, calling his name, as if out of the far-off unutterable peace. "Walter, it was kind of you to bring me here."
We are, indeed, a very small group, lost now in the immensity of the colossal acclivity as we move onward, lighted partly by the wan moon, partly by the red lanterns we hold in our hands, floating at the ends of their long sticks. A deep silence reigns in the precincts of the temple, even the sound of insects is hushed as we ascend.
She went back to her horse as lightfooted and graceful as an antelope. But he did not look up after her, nor did he respond to her cordial parting. For a long time after she rode away he continued to crouch as she had left him, motionless, almost torpid with the immensity of his loss. The sun sank lower and lower. It touched the skyline of High Mesa and dipped below.
These changes operate silently, continuously, and unperceived by the ordinary observer; but Nature does not limit herself always and everywhere to such peaceful agencies. At times, and in certain places, she acts with startling abruptness and extraordinary violence. Let the volcano and the earthquake attest the immensity of her power.
Ah! happy solitude, so tranquil and placid, immensity wherein the little patch of grass serving as their couch took the semblance of an infant's cradle. 'There, that's enough; said Albine, getting up; 'we've rested long enough. Serge seemed a little surprised at this speedy termination of their sleep.
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