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Guided by the impulse of the moment, I crossed the street to the gate, and, lifting the latch, entered the paved alley, on one side of which was a paled fence, and on the other the house, looking through two windows into the alley. The first window was dark like those in front; but at the second a light was discernible.
"I have only seen an afterglow like that once in my life," my companion said, "and that was in Teneriffe." A few moments more, and the sky paled to grey. The darkness came down with tropical suddenness. I made a movement forwards. "Shall I not be seen if I follow you through the village in these weird clothes?" she said civilly, as one who hesitates to make a suggestion. "Where is your house?"
He was not surprised nothing surprised him in these days he was only curious. "For the rooms you occupy. I can get enough for them, sir, not only to clear up the back interest, but to keep the mortgage alive and " St. George's face paled as the full meaning of Pawson's proposal dawned in his mind. That was the last thing he had expected. "Turn me into the street, eh?"
He shook his head ruefully, and Hardy glanced at a tie which would have paled the glories of a rainbow. For some time they walked along in silence. "I'm going to pay my respects to Cap'n Nugent this afternoon," said Mr. Wilks, suddenly. "Ah," said the other. "I knew what it 'ud be with them two on the same ship," continued Mr. Wilks.
"Would you go home with me, Hetty?" he asked emphatically; "go back to Welbury? let every man, woman, and child in the county, nay, in the State, know that all my grief for you had been worse than needless, that I had been a deserted husband for ten years, and that you had been living under an assumed name all that time? Would you do this?" Hetty's face paled. "What else is there to do?" she said.
And as he looked his composure seemed to desert him. He paled, and his hand trembled and hung loosely. The mad woman, seizing her chance, snatched the dagger from him, and like a flash of lightning drove it into his left breast. Sir Cyril sank down, the dagger sticking out from his light overcoat. The deed was over before I could move. I sprang forward. Deschamps laughed, and turned to me.
If the 'word of the Lord' is to sound from our lips with power, it must first have absolute sway over ourselves. One man with God at his back, who fears nothing, can work marvels. God's servant is men's master. The vision of God's Presence paled the splendour, and blunted the perils, of the court of Samaria.
He was talking now to hurt her; there was a savage desire in his heart to goad her to anger. But he did not succeed. Her face paled a little at his brutal words, at the insult they implied, and she became a little rigid, her lips stiffening. But suddenly she smiled, mockingly, with irritating unconcern.
All these larger foes paled into insignificance compared with the mosquitos. There are very few places on earth where these pests are so formidable as in the bottom lands of the Missouri, and for weeks and even months they made the lives of our explorers a torture. No other danger, whether from hunger or cold, Indians or wild beasts, was so dreaded by the explorers as these tiny scourges.
Then by Zeus I swear the secret no doubt is not worth the knowing.” Cimon stopped suddenly, as he saw a look of horror on Hermione’s face. “Ah, lady! what’s the matter?” “Glaucon,” she groaned, “frightful omen! I am terrified!” Glaucon’s hands dropped at her cry. He himself paled slightly.
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