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I was wrapped in the murkiest and most impenetrable gloom. The first effort of reflection was to suggest the belief that I was blind: that disease is known to assail us in a moment and without previous warning. This, surely, was the misfortune that had now befallen me. Some ray, however fleeting and uncertain, could not fail to be discerned, if the power of vision were not utterly extinguished.
In the murkiest depth of my despair a sound roused me with a shock that made my heart ache. In a moment the door opened, light streamed in, and Edmund stood there. Strangely enough, I, who have an exceptional memory for spoken words, cannot, by any effort, recall what Edmund said, as his face beamed in upon us.
Presently, two candles were lit; one of which the Skyeman tied up and down the barbed end of his harpoon; so that upon going below, the keen steel might not be far off, should the light be blown out by a dastard. Unfastening the cabin scuttle, we stepped downward into the smallest and murkiest den in the world.
As the shadows begin to gather she will often turn to drink that for an hour she may recover the delusion of well-being. Slowly but certainly the morass drags her down. Often she does not reach thirty. If she lives it is to face a state in which, toothless, wrinkled, and obscene, she is seen only by those who visit the murkiest parts of our cities.
Therefore take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you." The young prince assures him in reply, that no strength of opportunity, concurring with the uttermost temptation, not "the murkiest den, The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can ," should ever prevail to lay asleep his jealousy of self-control, so as to take any advantage of Miranda's innocence.
Leaving our clothes in a little rude entry, which answered the purposes without affording any of the conveniences of a dressing-room, we stooped to a low fur-clad door and entered the bath-room proper, which was certainly dark enough and black enough to justify the gloomiest, murkiest adjective in the language.
I view her with yearning eyes, and she seems to me A moon of the summer set in a winter's night. Then they clad her in a third dress and letting down her long black ringlets, veiled her face to her eyes with the super- abundance of her hair, which vied with the murkiest night in length and blackness; and she smote all hearts with the enchanted arrows of her glances.
Trumpets sound. Hark! What importeth that loud trumpet's call? DUNOIS. Up! forth to meet him! My Agnes! thou dost weep! Even my strength Doth almost fail me at this interview. How many victims have been doomed to fall Ere we could meet in peace and reconcilement! But every storm at length suspends its rage, Day follows on the murkiest night; and still When comes the hour, the latest fruits mature!
And easy to work, too, when one once feels that one is working for such a Being, and with such a Being; as that! The whole world round us, and the future of the world too, seem full of light even down to its murkiest and foulest depths, when we can but remember that great idea, An infinitely useful God over all, who is trying to make each of us useful in his place.
I'd rather sit here and look out of the window." "Well, so long," said the conductor. "I'll drop in and see you as the night passes on." Saggart lit his pipe and gazed out into darkness. He knew every inch of the road all the up grades and the down grades and the levels. He knew it even better in the murkiest night than in the clearest day.
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