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It was an awful testimony to the eternal and mysterious nature of thought, to behold that wasted and weakened frame; and then to observe how the unassailable mind within still swayed the wreck of body yet left to it how faithfully the last exhausted resources of failing vigour rallied into action at its fierce command how quickly, at its mocking voice, the sunken eye lightened again with a gleam of hope, and the pale, thin lips parted mechanically with an exulting smile!
There was no misunderstanding her aspect and voice as she indignantly ejaculated: 'God bless me! Her eyes lightened as she said: 'You have pained me; you have outraged me; you have deceived me.
Friend Poet, do you think that even Heaven is wholly happy to one who loves, and whose Beloved is absent?" A tremor shook Alwyn's nerves, his eyes glowed as though the inward fire of his soul had lightened them, but his face grew very pale. "No more of this, for God's sake!" he said passionately. "I must not dream of it, I dare not!
Considering the lights with which he had been lightened, there was a species of honesty about Mr. Chaffanbrass which certainly deserved praise. He was always true to the man whose money he had taken, and gave to his customer, with all the power at his command, that assistance which he had professed to sell.
"Yes," she said, with confusion, while the flash of conjecture faded away. "Mr. Brandreth," said her visitor, whom she now saw to be much younger than Mr. Peck could be. He looked not much more than twenty-two or twenty-three; his damp hair waved and curled upon his temples and forehead, and his blue eyes lightened from a beardless and freshly shaven face.
The look of joy which lighted up 'Lena's face made Joel almost repent of not having said to her what he intended to, but thinking he would wait till next time, he started off, his heart considerably lightened by her warm thanks for his thoughtfulness. "Look, grandmother! a picture of our old home. Isn't it natural?" exclaimed Lena, as she ran back to the parlor.
The former at once perceived that something was weighing on the sculptor's mind, but he did not need any long inquiry. He had come to confide his troubles to her, and she kindly lightened the task for him by asking why he had not gone to breakfast with the Pelusinians. "Because I am not fit for gay company today," was the reply. "Again dissatisfied with Fate?"
It was so good of you, so noble of you, to let it make no difference." "None at all, Dolly." He was quite radiant again. "If I didn't love you so, I wouldn't mind what that other chap said or did. And if I could only think that you cared more for me than for him " "I do, Adam." "God bless you for saying so! You've lightened my heart, Dolly. I have to go to Portsmouth for the firm today.
But the men stepped out merrily, and joke and song lightened the way. There was an improvisatore in the Blankshire, whose comrades considered him a wonderful genius, though, as a matter of fact, his extempore effusions only consisted of taking some well-known song, and altering certain words or lines to suit a particular occasion.
But when they came there, and amidst the ashes could find no bones, their hearts were lightened, and yet so mad wroth they were, that some could scarce sit their horses, and great tears gushed from the eyes of some, and pattered down like hail-stones, so eager were they to see the blood of the Romans.
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