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Finally, one night, as she lay perplexing her soul with this and other problems of sin and righteousness, she saw, standing near her bed, her lost child, not as she supposed him to be, a baby for eternity, but apparently a youth of sixteen, regarding her silently, but with an expression of such radiant happiness in his face that the shadow passed from her soul forever.
I'm going to institute other reforms also, I'm going to make the choir sing in tune!" "If you will only sing as you were singing just now, nobody will hear the rest of the choir," vowed the young man, who during her remarks had never taken his eyes off the girl's radiant face.
And a recollection came to her of that radiant spring morning when Paris had shone out fair and clear, as though in a glass mirror, when it had worn the pure, sunny hue of childhood, as she lazily surveyed it, stretched in her easy-chair with a book upon her knees.
Then seeing that Marian hadn't a notion of what she meant, she said, "You don't know them, do you? I'll have to tell you some time, you and the rest of my scholars, for of course you are coming to my school." "Oh, am I?" Marian's face was radiant. "Why, yes, I imagine so. Don't you go to school?" "I haven't been yet. Grandpa has always taught me at home, you know." "Oh, that's it."
In contrast, too, were the very garments of the two men, for the dead duke affected light, airy, radiant colors clear blues, and clear pale-yellows, and delicate reds with subtle emphasis of gold and silver; but the splendor of Gonzague's apparel was sombre, like his beauty, with black for its dominant note, and only deep wine-colored crimsons or fierce ambers to lighten its solemnity.
The cheeks with dewy softness burned; The longing that, though quenched, still yearned, Proclaimed the spirit-harmony. The wisest's wisdom, and the strongest's vigor, The meekest's meekness, and the noblest's grace, By you were knit together in one figure, Wreathing a radiant glory round the place.
It was singular that these two, who loved each other so truly, could so hide their inmost feelings. Each had feared to appear weak to the other. Mr. Waddle looked at his wife with almost a radiant smile. "Well, Mary, we'll go back in the fall if we can sell.
The last light of the September day streamed in and fell full upon his face perhaps that was what glorified it and gave it such a radiant look. A faint smile lingered on his lips, his eyes had a far-off, dreamy look, and were fixed on the rosy evening sky. A strange, unearthly, exalted look altogether, that made his aunt's heart sink like stone. "Well?"
Mother was up to her elbows in the golden dough of the cakebread, stirring and beating and patting the jumble of eggs and flour and milk. Horieneke took the crying baby out of the cradle, shaking and tossing it in the air, and went into the garden just outside the door. The golden afternoon sun lay all around and everything was radiant with translucid green.
If those 'for whom Christ has died' should hold their peace, 'the stones would immediately cry out. That death, wondrous, mysterious, terrible, but radiant, and glorious with hope, with pardon, with holiness for us and for all the world that death smites on the chords of our hearts, if I may so speak, and brings out music from them all.
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