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As he took a step forward he saw why the circle had gasped. Through the curtains of the cabinet came the semblance of a tenuous wraith in long, trailing robes of white. It was almost formless, its outlines seeming to melt into the gloom. Advancing a little way into the circle, it shrank back as though timorous, then wavered.
I explained to him that I could not accept his invitation that time and told him what I was doing, and where I was going, but that I would return in four months and would bring a plenty of knives and rings and beads to trade for Buffalo robes. This seemed to please him very much. I bid them all good bye and went back to camp.
At the head of the table sat Prior Vincent of Emmet all clad in soft robes of fine cloth and silk; on his head was a black velvet cap picked out with gold, and around his neck hung a heavy chain of gold, with a great locket pendant therefrom. Beside him, on the arm of his great chair, roosted his favorite falcon, for the Prior was fond of the gentle craft of hawking.
She obeyed, and when he had carefully folded the robes and divers furs about her body, he stepped a few paces to one side, and gently lifting up a round lid of snow-crust, placed it over the aperture. It had been so smoothly cut, and fitted with such precision when replaced, that no one would have been able to discover that an incision had been made.
It seemed so absurd to be thrilled with love of Hortense with the breath of the wolves yet hot in one's face! "The wolves got Godefroy," I would reason, "how didn't they get me? How did I get away? What was that smell of fur " Then some one was throwing fur robes from the couch. The phantom Hortense kneeled at the pillow. "There are no wolves it was only the robe," she says.
With women a few cooking utensils and implements for tanning robes were placed on the scaffolds. When a man was buried on a platform in a lodge, the platform was usually suspended from the lodge poles. Sometimes, when a great chief or noted warrior died, his lodge would be moved some little distance from the camp, and set up in a patch of brush.
We went there this time with about the amount of goods we had always taken before to trade for a train load of robes, and we sold our entire stock the first day. We could have traded ten times that amount. Moreover, we got about one-half more than we could pack at one trip.
The horrible Circe with infamous eyes and scarlet robes no longer lured . . . the terrible sirocco of unbridled passion which had dominated his body almost to destruction was burning itself out . . . the droning in his head was very faint. He must not forget Philip, truest and best of friends. Carl lay down again beside the fire with a great sigh. He was very tired very sleepy.
We looked at the Declaration of Independence displayed in a glass case at the Department of State. We stood before Trumbull's pictures of the celebrated men of an earlier day. We went to the room of the Spring Court, saw the judges in their black robes, the thin intellectual Chief Justice Taney at the center.
"Is that your news?" said Gladys, languidly. Suddenly she flung aside the robes and sat up. "What's Pauline going to do? Can she " Gladys paused. "Yes, she can if she wishes to." "But will she? Will she?" demanded Gladys. "Jack doesn't know what she'll do," replied Langdon. "He's keeping quiet the only sane course when that kind of storm breaks.
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