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Passing the "bottom," or swamp-land, I ascended a hill, and following a lane, stopped after a half hour at a frame-mansion, unpainted, with some barns and negro-quarters contiguous, and a fine grove of young oaks, shading the porch. An elderly gentleman sat in the porch, sipping a julep, with his feet upon the railing, and conversing with a stout, ruddy officer, of decidedly Milesian physiognomy.
"And that young man, who goes by his name, brought up by Mr. Fielden?" "Well, sir?" "Is he not the son of Mr. Braddell?" The stranger was silent, and, shading his face with his hand, seemed buried in thought. He then rose, took up his candle, and said quietly, "Sir, I wish you good-evening. I have letters to write in my own room.
Cautiously, and very slowly, therefore, he wriggled to the edge of the bed and slid over, searching with his feet for slippers, but finding none, yet not daring to lower his eyes to look; then stood upright with a sudden rush, shading the candle from his eyes with one hand and peering over it.
His hand rested firm on my shoulder, as his glance turned to Hamilton. "I require no further commendation, Colonel. You will find the papers in the second drawer. Please explain all the details carefully to Major Lawrence." He bowed toward me, and sank back once more into his chair, one hand shading the eyes that still regarded us.
Thus candour, justice are called abstract terms; they are properties of the Mind. But a property of the dynamic system, e.g. Gravitation, does not strike us as abstract the sole distinction being the dynamic reference which the latter term implies. It will even be seen that there is sometimes a shading off of abstract quality.
As the spring holds all the promise of autumn in its delicate shading, so youth often depicts the time on ahead when line and colour will take on the aspect of age. It was startling. Doris almost cried aloud. Nancy old! Nancy lean and shrivelled with her pretty back bent to the burden of life! Then Doris laughed nervously, and Martin started. The book he was reading from was no laughing matter.
He could hear nothing, except the peals of thunder rolling through the valleys. He took a candle, and walked cautiously to the door of Faith's chamber, to see if she were asleep. The door was ajar, for the purpose of ventilation, and, shading the light with his hand, Armstrong could see the face of his sleeping daughter without waking her.
"Look at that string of 'C's' in that line. There's nothing mean about THEM." He put his pen between his teeth, raised himself slowly on his legs, and shading his eyes with his hand from the severe perspective of six feet, gazed admiringly down upon his work. Rupert, with his hands in his pockets and his back to the window, cynically assisted at the inspection.
To Gall's drawing, which was by no means accurate, I have added the names of the organs as he recognized them, and given definite boundaries to the organs which he represented by a shaded drawing, conveying the idea of a central elevation. I have given them the whole space allowed by his shading, and this leaves considerable space unoccupied, as if he did not know what lay between them.
Rob Moore led the charge, and two strangers were following hard behind. "It's the MacIntyre boys," exclaimed the Little Colonel, shading her eyes with her hand and then half turning in her saddle to explain to the girls. "It's Malcolm and Keith. You'll like them. They stayed out heah with their grandmothah one whole wintah, and they used to come up to ou' house lots.
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