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All at once, and for the first time in his life, he began to realize the existence of a something all-powerful, to which these people appealed, a something beneficent which swept their faces free of care, as a light drives out darkness, and sent them home with new hope and courage. Religion had played no part in his life. From his boyhood he had made his fight without it.
I am now covered with shame to think how, when the thing approached myself on that side, it swept away for the moment all my fine theories about the equality of men in Christ their Head. How could Tom Weir, whose father was a joiner, who had been a lad in a London shop himself, dare to propose marrying my sister?
"How pathetic," she says, "the gathering of women on the headlands, when out of the sky swept the squall that sent the small boat staggering before it, and blinded the eyes, already drowned in tears, with sudden rain that hid sky and sea and boats from their eager gaze!" What she was, what her sympathy was, to those people, no one can ever quite express.
He passed perplexed into the hall, which was fresh with the breeze that swept through open French windows. "Mr. Herkimer, isn't it?"
On the night of the 26th November a terrible storm arose, the worst that had been for many years, and swept the lighthouse entirely away. Not a vestige of it or the people on it was ever seen afterwards. Only a few bits of the iron fastenings were left fixed in the rocks." "That was terrible," said Forsyth, whose uneasiness was evidently increasing with the rising storm.
And turning from him she saw that her husband stood a few paces off, watching them with a thoughtful scrutiny that caught at her heart. Gliding across the polished floor, she slipped a hand under his elbow, and leaned close to him. "Darling," she whispered, "I am so glad this is ours." Without a word, he put his arm round her, and swept her into the crowd.
He felt a burning pressure behind his eyeballs. 'Death is natural, he said. 'It is natural to the aged. When they die honoured . . . She looked where the dead man lay. 'To sit beside the young, cut off from their dear opening life . . . ! A little shudder swept over her. 'Oh! that! 'You were very good to come. We must all thank you for fulfilling his wish. 'He knew it would be my wish.
I'll give a month's pay to everybody." A man of that indiscriminate mixture of Spaniard and Indian known in California as cholo swept the circle of men with an alert and knowing glance.
Not only the simple and the impressible yielded to the wave of speculation that swept the country, but the shrewdest business men formed its crest, and were thrown high and dry beyond all others, in the common wreck, when it reached the shore. On the evening of the fourth day after his return, Mr.
It swept over the country like a religious revival, the creeping dread. The writing men got to McGregor, the brain back of it all, fast enough. Everywhere his influence appeared. In the afternoon there would be a hundred newspaper men standing on the stairway leading up to the big bare office in Van Buren Street. At his desk he sat, big and red and silent. He looked like a man half asleep.
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