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Before supper June slipped up to her little hiding-place at the pool and sat on the old log saying good-by to the comforting spirit that always brooded for her there, and, when she stood on the porch at sunset, a new spirit was coming on the wings of the South wind.
You shall take it, leaving me in charge of the gate, as often I am left, by order of the Reverend Mother, when you are bidden elsewhere. If, on your return and you need not to hurry you find me gone, none can blame you. Yet when the Lord Bishop rides in at sunset, he will give you his blessing and, like enough, something besides." Mary Mark's hesitation vanished.
I continued sitting there, lost to the world, till sunset when lo! the Kazi of the city came riding by with his slaves before him and his eunuchs behind him, and dismounting entered the house in which the damsel had appeared. By this I knew that he was her father; so I went home sorrowful and cast myself upon my carpet bed in grief.
There was many a noble deed and many a base one done in that mist. The fighting went on with clashing of lances and shields throughout the afternoon, and then the sounds grew fainter, till there was silence. At last, towards sunset, a wind from the west blew the mist away. Then Arthur, with Sir Bedivere by his side, looked over the field of battle.
As this point was the most exposed on the whole line, twenty-one soldiers were stationed here; at sunset they returned from hunting, bringing with them seven deer, three ostriches, and many armadilloes and partridges.
No trouble came near his stainless heart, no shadow of sin; his old age was a peaceful day which lasted until sunset. He was a creature that had no falsetto in a single fibre of his being, no shadow of affectation.
"A cottage covered with vines to the roof and you and I and Daddy John inside it." "And David, don't forget David." "Of course, David," she assented lightly, for David's occupancy was removed to a comfortable distance. After supper she and David climbed to the top of the bank to see the sunset. The breeze had dropped, the dust devils died with it.
"Still, if one got through the window is it large enough for that?" "One might get through; but the moat is beneath far beneath." "The window looks toward Montoire, then, if the moat is beneath." "Yes; we can see the sunset." "At all events, a person dropping from the window would alight outside the walls of the chateau?" "Yes, Monsieur, in the moat, as I said. It would be a long drop, too.
He reached the convent at sunset, and watched and prayed in the chapel for Jerome and Margaret till it was long past midnight, and his soul had recovered its cold calm. The next day, Sunday, after mass, was a bustling day at Catherine's house in the Hoog Straet.
Suddenly the sun dipped down behind the flank of the stone giant guarding the valley's western gate; the whole vale swiftly darkened a flood of crystal-clear shadows poured within it. It was the prelude to that miracle of unearthly beauty seen nowhere else on this earth the sunset of Tibet. We turned expectant eyes to the west.
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