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It visualized pictures of lean ranchers who had brought him flowers in the days of his convalescence; of children gathered around him on the steps of his bungalow; of all the friendly faces brimming good-will into his own on the day of his departure; of a patch of green in desert loneliness, with a summons to arms to defend its arteries of life. "They want me to help I half promised!" he said.
She was frightened by the lateness of the hour and the intense loneliness of the place; and she felt that she had sacrificed herself for just the very meanest boy who ever lived. Though she was not a girl who often cried, tears came then, and that worst of all feelings homesickness seized her and turned her faint. Poor Monty! Here was a situation, indeed, for a boy who despised girls!
This place is just the nearest thing to an anchorage I've lit on yet, but even so I haven't found a right mooring." "You've no folks none at all?" Jessie's moment of passion had passed. All her sympathy had been suddenly aroused by the man's effort to help her, and his unusual admission of his own loneliness. A shadow of the man's usual smile flickered across his features. "Not a soul," he said.
I was left to my loneliness and my regrets. "A year has now passed with no news from them. I write this on the anniversary of their departure. My friends, I know, are dead somewhere! Oh, what an experience it has been! When your friends die and are buried it is hard enough but when they disappear in a flash and leave no token ! It is almost beyond endurance!"
"Oh, René, my son, if your heart is ever deeply troubled by love, beware of loneliness. Great passions are wild and solitary things; by transporting them into the wilderness you give them full power over your soul. But in spite of this, Atala and I lived together in the great forests like brother and sister.
He, who but yesterday morning had felt so bitterly his loneliness in the world, and, above all, the impossibility of what he most longed for woman's companionship found himself all at once on terms of at least friendly intimacy with two women, both young, both beautiful, yet so wholly different.
So very, very many pages of that booklet have never been written pages replete with dangers and hardships, loneliness and privations, sacrifice and service, all sweetened with friendships not found in heartless, hurrying cities, lightened with loyalty and love, and tinted with glamour and romance. And over it all lies a fascination a stranger without the gates can never share.
I do not know how far all this, continued through months or years of comparative loneliness, may permanently affect character; we can stand a great deal of kneading without being lastingly affected, either for better or worse; but there can be no question at all, that in a solitary life nature rises into a real companion, producing upon our present mood a real effect.
The super-man looked at the dog and as he looked the rage went out of his face and was replaced by something resembling pity. "I do not wish the beast to die," he muttered to himself in low reflective tones, as though he thought aloud, "for of them all it alone liked and did not fear me. I might take it with me but still it would perish of grief in the loneliness of the caves.
We're a rather tough lot, you know. Good-by." He lifted his hat again, loosened his horse's reins, and passed by her. Just as she had expected, just as she had desired. And yet, with his dusty back turned upon her, she experienced a sudden return of her loneliness. Would she ever look into the eyes of a friend again?
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