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It was not a white reflection that came, but something misty and brown. "Dead leaves!" cried the "King." "It's a cave or a hollow." He raised the lantern higher, and the light shone directly in at the opening; it shone, too, upon Sylvia's face as she lay asleep in Harley's arms. "Babes in the wood!" muttered Hobart, who had come up behind them. The "King" paused a moment.
‘Yes, sir.’ ‘Where?’ ‘Here;’ and the misty outline of Mrs. Tibbs appeared at the staircase window, like the ghost of Queen Anne in the tent scene in Richard. ‘This way, Mrs. Tibbs,’ whispered the delighted busybody: ‘give me your hand—there!
He solves the question by laying down an axiom that the harder the environment, the harder the stone produced. The mountains of Scotland are both higher and presumably harder than those of England, hence the carbuncles. He was evidently fascinated with the wealth of local legend and story which haunted the misty regions he visited.
But Winifred, who had now seen me, did not bound away with that heart-quelling yell of hers which I had dreaded. No, I perceived to my astonishment that the flash of the eyes was not of alarm, but of greeting to me pleasure at seeing me! She came close to the water, and then I saw a smile on her face through the misty film a flash of shining teeth. 'May I come? she said.
Some misty notions regarding the first part of his illness, and that Fanny had nursed him, Pen may have had, but they were so dim that he could not realize them with accuracy, or distinguish them from what he knew to be delusions which had occurred and were remembered during the delirium of his fever.
It was his reputation as a necromancer, and the stories current of illicit rites performed in the garden-rooms at St. John's, that contributed largely to his being dismissed from that College. He had also become acquainted with Francis Dashwood, the notorious Lord le Despencer, and many a winter's night saw him riding through the misty Thames meadows to the door of the sham Franciscan abbey.
In the misery of the September nights of 1914, in the harshness of misty mornings among the Alsatian pines, his thoughts return to the luminous twilights of his old home under the great oaks of the Isère, and he expresses his nostalgia in terms of the most exquisite and the most unstudied grace.
See!" returned Porbus. Coming nearer, they perceived in a corner of the canvas the point of a naked foot, which came forth from the chaos of colors, tones, shadows hazy and undefined, misty and without form, an enchanting foot, a living foot. They stood lost in admiration before this glorious fragment breaking forth from the incredible, slow, progressive destruction around it.
To continue till a second Milton is called upon to write as misty history a second "Paradise Lost." ... "And He saw that it was good...." Throughout the Universe which He had created He set a Great Road, and on it was Man, at first invisible, but soon an infinite multitude.
They looked at each other, and each ceased to feel his own sorrow, and was conscious only of that of his friend. They clasped their hands. In both there was sad serenity. Gently, while no wind stirred, the misty veil was raised: the blue sky shone forth again.
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