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He took his way across the fields, and his progression was that of no stealthy-footed conspirator. Two miles of downward-sloping land lay between the stile whereon he had brooded and the home that his plottings were to disturb.
This was the foe the stealthy-footed demon, that had at last come to overmaster the brave and noble Angus Rothesay. As yet it ruled him not he was no sot; but his daughter saw enough to know that the fiend was nigh upon him that this night he was even in its grasp. It is only the noblest kind of affection that can separate the sinner from the sin, and even while condemning, pity.
No wonder that now knowledge and practice, and the sort of intensive training he was under, magically fitted all the jumbled odds and ends into place. Dickie had stopped looking over his shoulder. The pursuing pack, the stealthy-footed beasts of the city, had dropped utterly from his flying imagination. There was only one that remained faithful that craving for beauty half-god, half-beast.
His voice shook, and he paused, then with some effort continued "Yes, Lysia has her secret commissioners everywhere throughout the length and breadth of the city, who report to her each circumstance that happens, no matter how trifling, and doubtless we were followed home, tracked step by step as we walked together, by one of her stealthy-footed servitors, in this there would be naught unusual."
But lately, Death was the cruel stranger, the stealthy-footed visitor.... Now, it is the romping dog of the house. Do you remember the days when the human body seemed made for joy, when each of its organs represented a function and a delight? Now, each part of the body evokes the evil that threatens it, and the special suffering it engenders.
Through the midnight of the woods, shivering at the cries of the stealthy-footed prowlers of the darkness, he crouches huddled in fallen leaves, waiting for the rose of dawn. Little by little the prospect clears round him. The branches of great trees, grinding one against another in the windy forest, break into a strange red flower; he gathers it and hoards it in his cave.
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