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Throwing a last and lingering glance at the distant canoes, he laid aside his rifle, and relieving the wearied Duncan, resumed the paddle, which he wielded with sinews that never tired. His efforts were seconded by those of the Mohicans, and a very few minutes served to place such a sheet of water between them and their enemies, that Heyward once more breathed freely.
The rumble and the rattle of wheels; the cries and grinding noises; the hum of motion and talk; all under the lingering smoky red of a London Winter sunset, were not discord to her animated blood. Her unhunted spirit made a music of them. It was not like the music of other days, nor was the exultation it created at all like happiness: but she at least forgot herself.
"I need not tell you that the same friends who had opposed my marriage now came forward to implore me to allow her to break our chains. I refused. I swear to you it was from no lingering love for her, for her presence drove me mad; it was from no instinct of revenge or jealousy, for I should have welcomed the man who would have taken her out of my life and memory.
It was fully midnight, and, as a matter of course, very nearly all the passengers were in their berths. There were a few, however, who were lingering on the promenade deck, some smoking here and there a couple of lovers all unconscious of everything else one or two avaricious speculators; and but a few minutes could elapse before the startling danger should become known.
When he reached the summit of the Birky Brow he did not see her, although he had a longer view of the road than before. He thought this very singular, and began to suspect that she wanted to escape him, although apparently rather lingering on him before. "I shall have another look at her, however," thought the Laird, and off he set at a flying trot. No. He came first to one turn, then another.
The worldly mother's eyes rested with a lingering tenderness on the daughter's face. "Stella!" she said softly and stopped, at a loss for words for the first time in her life. After a while, she began again. "Yes; I see a change in you," she whispered "an interesting change which tells me something. Can you guess what it is?" Stella's color rose brightly, and faded again.
Aristomachus nodded assent, and Phryxus read aloud a second time the answer of the Pythia: "If once the warrior hosts from the snow-topped mountains descending Come to the fields of the stream watering richly the plain, Then shall the lingering boat to the beckoning meadows convey thee Which to the wandering foot peace and a home will afford.
Have no poet's dreams, lingering in the untenanted spaces, claimed your beauteous spirit in sleep?" "Oh, Mr. Perkins, have I your room? I will so gladly give it up I " The poet raised his hand. "No. The place where you have walked is holy ground. Not for the world would I dispossess you, but " A meaning look did the rest.
But strike a member of the harem school, and her companions swim around her with every token of concern, sometimes lingering so near her and so long, as themselves to fall a prey. Fast-Fish and Loose-Fish
She directed the boat to be rowed back to the Elwood Landing, where, leaving it, she with her attendant took the path to the cottage; and reaching this, and finding all dark within she boldly led the way down the long road to the bridge, miles below, with no other light than the still lingering flashes of lightning afforded to her hurrying footsteps.
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