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The sky was lowering, and brooded darkly over the earth. There was a tense hush and stillness, only broken in September by the lowing of mating elks. In December came the mournful, sinister howling of the wolves; for the rest of the time a deep, dreadful, overpowering silence! A silence that can be found only in the wastelands of the world. A village stood on the hill by the river.
And Baji Lal, whom this very minute you were about to murder aye, murder is an innocent man, and his wife a maligned woman. "And such is human nature, that they who a short time before had been so keen to see Baji Lal done to death, were now loud in their acclamations at his escape. "But the patel looked at me with lowering brow. "'Fine words, Chunda Das, but I do not see the Sheikh?
Repairing to their sire, they bowed unto him by lowering their heads, and said, 'Soma doth not live with us! Give us thy protection! The adorable Candramas always lives with Rohini exclusively! He sets no importance to thy words, and does not wish to show us any affection!
Then, too, the cleanliness of the barracks impressed them, and the personal neatness of the khaki-clad men, not to mention the very desirable things to eat evolved by the company cook. But perhaps nothing so filled them with awe and admiration as the ceremonial raising and lowering of the garrison flag.
Many of these pioneers, so like the men and women of my earliest childhood that I always felt comforted by their presence in the house, were very much opposed to "foreigners," whom they held responsible for a depreciation of property and a general lowering of the tone of the neighborhood.
'Yes; but somehow, said Fanny, lowering her voice, 'mamma has never been to London herself, and can't understand my longing. She is very proud of Milton; dirty, smoky place, as I feel it to be. I believe she admires it the more for those very qualities. 'If it has been Mrs. Thornton's home for some years, I can well understand her loving it, said Margaret, in her clear bell-like voice.
Boarding pikes were piled in readiness; shot had been placed in the racks, ready to throw down into the boats as they came alongside; and the ship's boats had been swung out, in readiness for lowering as it was intended to carry the brig, by boarding, after the repulse and destruction of her boats. "We have had a narrow escape of catching a tartar," Bob said, to himself.
Kent, lowering her voice to a compassionate inflection. "Poor boy! he has neither father nor mother! He is entirely dependent upon me. Out of my salary I have paid his expenses ever since I entered your employ." "That was generous and kind of you," said her husband, approvingly. "What is the boy's name?" "Nicholas Thorne." "Your brother's son, I suppose?" said Mr. Kent.
Of course she relapsed many times it was her nature to experiment, to wander before she settled, to see for herself; but it was by intimacy with lower natures that she learned fully to appreciate the higher; by the effect of bad books upon her that she learned the value of good ones; by the lowering of her whole tone which came of countenancing laxity in others, and by the discomfort and degradation which follow on disorder, that she was eventually confirmed in her principles.
Such was the strange power of the popular legend concerning her that even now, despite the first fearful shock of disappointment, Edward Henry could not call her by her name without self-consciously stumbling over it, without a curious thrill. And further, he was revising his judgment of her, as well as lowering her age slightly.
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