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Go back to your pots. I can manage my own child!" "You have never yet managed her or yourself either," was the spoiled old servant's parting shaft. Kano sat watching the slender, errant figure in the garden. Yes, she had taken it calmly, more calmly than he could have hoped. How beautiful was the poise, even at this distance, of the delicate throat, and the head, with its wide crown of inky hair!
The banks of the stream became obscured, and finally vanished altogether; while the water ceased to glimmer and turned to an inky blackness. Lights twinkled in the distant shacks, and the front of the Red Dog burst into illumination. The saloon was too far away for the watchers to pick out the moving figures of men, but Brennan chuckled, and pointed his finger at the glare.
The clipped bushes and the twisted chimneys made inky shadows like steeples on the grass, and great trees of roses, beautiful in desolation, dripped with red and white and elbowed the guelder roses and the elders set with white patens. Cherries fell in the orchard with the same rich monotony, the same fatality, as drops of blood.
The shade of night was wrapping its dusky mantle over the earth as Daisy, flushed and excited, and trembling in every limb, alighted from the train at Allendale. Whitestone Hall was quite a distance from the station; she had quite a walk before her. Not a breath of air seemed to stir the branches of the trees, and the inky blackness of the sky presaged the coming storm.
I'M going. If you funk it you'd better cut along home and ask your nurses to put you to bed. So then, of course, they agreed to go. Oswald went first with the candle. It was not comfortable; the architect of that dark subterranean passage had not imagined anyone would ever be brave enough to lead a band of beavers into its inky recesses, or he would have built it high enough to stand upright in.
Just the stupidity of an inky printer between us and success." "Do you mean to say that but for that we should have had peace by now?" asked Kew in a reverent voice. "You never know," said Mrs. Russell. "That meeting might have been the match to light the flame of peace all over the world. It's bitterly and satirically funny, isn't it, what Fate will do. Ha-ha-ha."
And presently, as he made no movement towards her, she said: "Good-night!" This time he had not even desired to kiss her. The next moment she had disappeared in the gloom. She fled as fast as she dared in the inky blackness of this November night. She could have run for miles, or for hours, away! away from all this sordidness, this avarice, this deceit and cruelty! Away! away from him!!
The two other machines had vanished in the darkness, doubtless cleaving the higher air strata in a backward flight to the home aerodrome, which was now the goal of all. Meantime searchlights were flashing here, there, yonder through the inky sky. The swift reports of anti-aircraft guns split the night's silence in a most disconcerting manner. Erwin groaned and twisted his body. "Stay still, Orry!
There, not three paces away from me, was the dim outline of the young girl's form vaguely discernible in the gloom a white mass, almost motionless, against a background of inky blackness. With a quick intaking of my breath I sprang forward, the shawl outspread in my hand, and with a quick dexterous gesture I threw it over her head, and the next second had her, faintly struggling, in my arms.
The head-light pierces into the inky darkness, and frequently exaggerates the size of objects on and near the track.
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