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Ira Inman and his leaders, to which, as may be supposed, Fred Whitney and Monteith Sterry paid close attention. "Now, Jack, do your best, for everything depends on you." Jennie Whitney looked around in the darkness and saw the glimmer of the rustlers' camp-fire, fully two hundred yards to the rear, with the shadowy figures moving to and fro.
He was conducted into a dark office and asked to sign a pledge that lay on a desk. While Miss Church-Member is convalescent, Mr. World alone visits the underground apartments where secret sins are taught. The last horrible stages of vice represented. I saw Mr. World standing in a shadowy room and reading the conditions of entering "Satan's Secret Service."
In watching her becoming the spirit of the place, as she herself had been when a child, Gyp found rest at times, a little rest. She had not picked up much strength, was shadowy as yet, and if her face was taken unawares, it was the saddest face one could see. Her chief preoccupation was not being taken unawares. Alas! To Winton, her smile was even sadder.
Beatrice reappears shadowy, melting at times into symbol and figure but far too living and real, addressed with too intense and natural feeling, to be the mere personification of anything. The lady of the philosophical Canzoni has vanished.
I know it." "No," he contradicted. "Yes," she asserted, quite as concisely. "No," he repeated. "You're mistaken." "Don't be absurd. Why?" "Look out there, over that tree to the horizon." "I'm looking." "Do you see anything?" "Yes; a sort of little smudge." "That's why." "It's a very shadowy sort of why." "There's substance enough under it." "A riddle? I'll give it up." "No; a bet.
The barbarians no longer exist to frighten his soul with dreadful war cries; they have moved away to another more remote and shadowy region, called in their own language Alhuemapu, and not known to geographers.
Toby thought that he would have time to pay a visit to his friends the skeleton and the Fat Woman, and to that end started toward the place where their tent had been standing; but to his sorrow he found that it was already being taken down, and he had only time to thank Mrs. Treat and to press the fleshless hand of her shadowy husband as they entered their wagon to drive away.
They hold faithfully together during the ever more silent, ever more shadowy autumn days; his warming breast is close to hers through frozen winter nights; and if they both live to see another May she is still all the world to him, and woe to any brilliant vagabond who should warble a wanton love-song under her holy windows. Georgiana returned the last of August.
One can't imagine that man taking it easily, and there's the obvious fact that Jim will have to keep up with him. He will find it hard, but I dare say it will do him good." Nasmyth laughed and strolled away with Carew. The sunset green grew dimmer behind the hills and a pale half-moon appeared above the shadowy woods. It was very still, except for the lapping of the water upon the stones.
It will be awkward in the dark if the wind's on-shore." Carroll made no comment, and they drove on. As they swept around the point, the sloop, slanting sharply, dipped her lee rail in the froth. Ahead of them the inlet was flecked with white, and the wail of the swaying firs came off from the shadowy beach and mingled with the gurgling of the water.
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