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The man, somewhat piqued at the spirit in which his overtures were met, left him, and Luther stepped on to the platform. There was a long vista of semi-light, down which crowds of people walked and baggage-men rushed. The building, if it deserved the name, seemed a ruin, and through the arched doors Luther could see men hackmen-dancing and howling like dervishes.
Neither has anyone caught those ethereal blues or royal purples that the soft semi-light of evening makes upon its bosom where the darker mountains seem to be floating. But this lake requires not the aid of morning or evening to make it fair.
The man, somewhat piqued at the spirit in which his overtures were met, left him, and Luther stepped on to the platform. There was a long vista of semi-light, down which crowds of people walked and baggagemen rushed. The building, if it deserved the name, seemed a ruin, and through the arched doors Luther could see men hackmen dancing and howling like dervishes.
He might win her yes, perhaps some day, but he could not forget that, whenever she had touched him with tenderness, she thought of Olafaksoah. Standing before his igloo, musing upon these things, Ootah espied in the semi-light a dark speck moving on the ice. "Nannook! Without pausing to get his gun Ootah ran down to the ice-sheeted shore.
While on the pavement, stunned and bleeding, blows and kicks were rained upon my face and shoulders by the pair, who were evidently bent upon killing me. Then Manuel drew a long, deadly looking knife! I caught its hideous gleam in the semi-light as it was about to descend, and then I lost consciousness!
For a long time he progressed no farther than this, for falling into his own thoughts, he would find only the aged body of Gobind before him the rest having stolen away on night-marches of deep moment, while he, Bedient, had tried to realize his life loneliness. At last he could think of nothing else throughout the long day, and he went early in the semi-light and sat before the holy man.
In the semi-light of the little windows in the enclosed sides of the pier, under the steel girders of the arched roof like a vast hall, there was a panorama of a huge mass of open luggage. At last Number 140 came down, alone, to the roped-off dock. He walked nonchalantly over to the little deputy surveyor's desk, and an inspector was quickly assigned to him.
Then we walked back and forth in the semi-light of our empty little place and said how nice it was, and where we should set the furniture and hang the pictures: and stepped off the size of the rooms that all put together were not so big as had been our one big sitting-room in the West. As for the Precious Ones, they were wildly happy.
"No, we have received no summons," said Hal. "Then it is twice good that I arrived," said Jules. "You shall accompany me." "And where is the rendezvous?" asked Chester. "I'll show you," said Jules. He drew his watch from his pocket and glanced at it in the semi-light of the tent. "Twelve fifteen," he said. "We have forty-five minutes still, but it will do no harm if we are a few minutes early.
Passing the nursery, he heard a little movement, and, entering softly, saw Harold sitting up in his little cot. "Father, is that you?" he called through the semi-light. "Yes, my boy. Is anything the matter? Why are you not asleep?" "I couldn't, father dear; I'm so longing for to-morrow. I want to blow my new trumpet again, and to see the rest of the brown-paper parcels.