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'Why doth he not come who hath so long announced himself? thus do many people ask; 'hath solitude swallowed him up? Or should we perhaps go to him? Now doth it come to pass that solitude itself becometh fragile and breaketh open, like a grave that breaketh open and can no longer hold its dead. Everywhere one seeth resurrected ones.
And now, through a festooned doorway, there come the people of many lands to inhabit the gay court. Music follows their footsteps: Hamlet and Esther; Caractacus and Iphigenia; Napoleon and Hermione; The Man in the Iron Mask and Sappho; Garibaldi and Boadicea; an Arab sheikh and Joan of Arc; Mahomet and Casablanca; Cleopatra and Hannibal a resurrected world. But the illusion is short and slight.
Whilst tall, gaunt, erect, like a murdered Hamlet resurrected in khaki, with the terrible black shutter over his eye, the young Major came last. Arthur was making a stern fight for his composure. His whole future depended on it. But do what he would, he could not get the flushed, pleased, mess-happy look off his face.
The place was found, the time midnight decided upon: but the question remained, how should Ligeia be resurrected? And here arose almost an insuperable difficulty. Yet now she must be revived.
She had resurrected the creature she loved; this was an enduring portrait, perpetuating, in her own life, another life as well. "I'll pack away my own clo'es to-morrer," said Lucy Ann to herself. "Them are the ones to be put aside."
Hans Schuyler has not got the wheel to-night you see he was three sheets in the wind anyhow, and the captain, says, 'Hans, says he, 'don't tech another drop this night, or we'll never see another mornin' till we are resurrected, and so he turned into his hammock and swung himself to sleep a way he had, for he didn't keer for nothin' where his comfort was concerned, having been raised up in the Injies."
Isabel's only experience of hospitality heretofore had been in England, where a guest might die and be resurrected between the formal hours of reunion and the hostess be none the wiser. It had never occurred to her that visiting might become hard labor, and as she had met few people whom she had liked as spontaneously as Ada Hofer, she had come to her without a misgiving.
The king and Remand gazed in wonder at those who had been pointed out as being resurrected beings, and their wonder increased when they could see no marked difference between them and the rest of mankind, save perhaps in the calm, sweet expression of the face, and the light which appeared to beam from the countenances of the immortals. They certainly were not unreal, shadowy beings.
That town, with its population of about 40,000 at that time, lies thirty-two miles northeast from Delhi, which was to be the capital of the resurrected Mogul Empire. It was the precipitancy of this first revolt that prevented its fullest success. The intention was to kill every white man, woman and child in the place.
But of all this fabric of the past which she had resurrected, the central figure was the school-girl Ida Ludington. The restored village was the mausoleum of her youth. Over the great old-fashioned fireplace, in the sitting-room of the homestead which she had rebuilt in the midst of the village, she had hung a portrait in oil, by the first portrait-painter then in the country.
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