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"He! and he, too!" exclaimed Jacobi, deeply agitated. "Oh, the kind, noble, excellent man! And I I shall, I will become worthy of him! From this day I am a new man!" He pressed the letter to his breast, and looked up to the star-lighted heaven with silent but fervent vows.
Silently still, the others placed their garlands and wreaths at the feet of the wedded pair. Turning, they walked slowly back over the trail. Midnight on Angel Island. Julia sat alone on the stone bench at the door of the Honeymoon House. She gazed straight ahead out on a star-lighted sea, which joined a star-lighted sky and stretched in pulsating star-gleams to the end of space.
In the moonlight I could perceive all the bareness of the apartment. Would to God Fancy would ride to me on this moonbeam and give me inspiration! 'Twas indeed weird this silver ethereal path connecting the moon with the earth, and the more I gazed along it, the more I wished to leave my body and escape to the star-lighted vaults.
The winter had been long and cold and snowy; great masses of thawing ice from far-away rivers were slowly drifting down the star-lighted surface of the Hudson, and the trees were still bare. But the air was warm, and the breezes lifted and stirred the tender darkness above her head with a summery sweetness.
She stood silently for a few moments to make sure that no one would see her. Then she moved swiftly to the ice bridge and out into the star-lighted ghostliness of the night. Wapi followed close behind her, and dropping a hand to her side she called softly to him. In an instant Wapi's muzzle was against her mitten, and his great body quivered with joy at her direct speech to him.
His voice could be heard in all sorts of wet, star-lighted, blossoming places, helping the big frogs through their choruses, or mocking the little upside-down owls that hoot through the white nights.
Jones saw the propriety of this, and gratefully assented to the captain's plan, and at the hour appointed all the preparations having been efficiently made the wounded man was carefully placed upon the nicely-constructed litter, the women and children taken upon the soldiers' horses, and the little cavalcade moved noiselessly out on the star-lighted prairie.
The street lamps checkered the slope below me, but my eyes went past them; in the depths of the valley the nail-works were glowing, piling up their tale of kegs, but I looked beyond them to the mountain which rose from the river and travelled away like a great shadow, cutting the star-lighted sky. Where mountain and sky mingled, indefinable in the night, my eyes rested, but my mind plunged on.
Susie went to the window and looked out at the clear star-lighted sky. "Uncle," she said, "the stars all look alike to me, only some are little and some are big. How can people know them by their names?" "Just as anything else is known, dear," replied Uncle Robert, "by close and careful study." "I wish we could study the stars," said Frank. "We will some time," replied Uncle Robert.
How we moved together as with one being only beside the broad streams of our birthplace under the shelter of shady pines morning, and noon, and in the star-lighted night never once dreaming that an hour like this would come! And she seemed so perfect pure, as she was so perfect lovely!
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