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As the weather had thickened in the late afternoon, our party walked in a dumb-show, listening to the soft swish of the waves on the rocks below, and watching the figures of other promenaders, who were good enough ladies and gentlemen in this friendly mist. The next day Mr. King made a worse mistake.
The dispute thickened; the synagogue hummed with "Eis" and "Ois" not in concord. "Shah!" said the President at last. "Make an end, make an end!" "You see he knows I'm right," murmured the Shalotten Shammos to his circle. "And if you are!" burst forth the impeached Greenberg, who had by this time thought of a retort.
Twilight thickened into darkness a choking, pasty darkness and still we sped unfalteringly over that trackless waste, sitting and swinging in our little pool of stifled orange light. To drown fatigue and suspense I conned over my clues, and tried to carve into my memory every fugitive word I had overheard. 'Sorry, I added, for no answer came.
He did not wonder how long her radiance would endure; he thought he knew. He entertained himself by tracing the likeness to her mother, and the mother's slimness had thickened, and her shoulders rounded; her eyes were tired, a little dour; they looked out without enthusiasm at the world, except when they rested upon her daughter.
As the dusk thickened over the great river, the island, the hills and the forest, Hochelaga seemed very small, and the inn of the excellent Monsieur Jolivet was just a tiny point of light in all that vast darkness. It shone, nevertheless, by contrast, and was a little island of warmth and comfort in the sea of the wilderness.
There was soon a marked fall in the temperature, and as night drew near it became pretty certain that we were going to have a cold time of it. The wind rose, the vapor above us thickened and came nearer, until it began to drive across the summit in slender wraiths, which curled over the brink and shut out the view.
It was this precious water, as well as the inaccessibility of the spot, which had decided Alessandro to gain the place at all hazards and costs. But a wall of granite would not have seemed a much more insuperable obstacle than did this wall of chaparral, along which they rode, vainly searching for a break in it. It appeared to Alessandro to have thickened and knit even since the last spring.
'Five years as usual, and hard labour, said Sir Joshua Juggins, wearily. He was tiring of his task. 'Please, my lord, it warn't none of me, came a hoarse whisper from the prisoner at the bar. 'Who asked you to speak? Is that the way to plead? snapped the judge. 'Give him five years also, for contempt of court. William Evans was carried out in hysterics. The plot, the mystery had thickened.
They had not long thus impatiently to wait, nor could they latterly complain of the want of a chance "to do or die." Volunteering for perilous or very onerous duty was popular at the outset, but as duties of this kind thickened it began to be thought time enough when the "orders" were peremptory, or the orderly read the "detail."
The tear thickened on her eyelid as she projected her mind on the grief she would soon be undergoing for Marko: or at least she would undergo it subsequently; she would certainly mourn for him.
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