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Here was this mortal earth that needed rest so cruelly that must have darkness to refresh its tired eyes, coolness to recuperate its passion, and silence, if ever its ears were to hear again. But there was radiance unending.
The palms, silver poplars, and sycamores on the largest one were already casting longer shadows as the slanting rays of the sun touched their dark crowns, while its glowing ball still poured a flood of golden radiance upon the bushes along the shore, and the light, feathery tufts at the tops of the papyrus reeds in the brackish water.
Then her expression began to alter curiously under Caroline's eyes becoming charged, as it were, with an inner radiance that shone right through the outer dullness, or embarrassment, or sadness whatever there might be. "At any rate, she has gone where things are certain." Caroline's heart beat fast with the sudden impact of discovery. Laura, too, then!
I believe we had reached seventeen; but this last one is equal to two." "Folly!" cried Gorgias in an irritated tone: "May not a man admire what is magnificent, wonderful, unique? She is all these things! Just now how long ago is it? she appeared before me in a radiance of beauty " "Which should have made you shade both eyes.
On this occasion he therefore recognised as the servant opened the door a congruity between the weather and the "four-wheeler" that, in the empty street, under the glazed radiance, waited and trickled and blackly glittered.
The full moon had just risen above a tope of tamarind trees, and its silvern radiance revealed every detail of the scene. A Rajput chief occupied the place of central prominence, cushions arranged for his convenience, on one of which rested his scimitar, the emblem of his soldierly profession.
"Good-night, dear, kind Ruth!" sighed Daisy. And she watched the old lady with wistful, hungry eyes as she picked up her shaded night-lamp, that threw such a soft, sweet radiance over her aged face, as she quietly quitted the room. A sudden change came over Daisy's face as the sound of her footsteps died away in the hall. "Oh, God! help me!" she cried, piteously, struggling to her feet.
Father, mother and son sprang to their feet and, hurrying towards the door, flung it open and beheld a woman's limp form lying on the threshold. It was but a child's weight to the stalwart Quaker who picked it up in his great arms and carried it into the radiance of the great fireplace, and in an instant he and Dorothea his wife were pushing forward the work of restoration.
The saving grace of life is the power to hold with serene and steadfast fidelity the vision, the ideal, that has revealed itself in happier hours; to realize that this, after all, is the true reality, and that it shines in the spiritual firmament as the sun does in the heavens, however long the period of storm and clouds that obscure its radiance.
She looked down at her skirt, at her hands; she thought of her hat and her hidden shoes. She thought of Emmy, the bread and butter pudding, of Alf Rylett ... of Pa lying at home in bed, alone in the house. v Keith drew her forward slightly, until she came within the soft radiance of the cabin lights. "I say, it is sporting of you to come!" he said. "Let's have a look at you do!"
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