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This lifted a wooden latch, and the door swung open. The room inside was lighted only by the, ruddy glow from the kiln mouth, which shone over ,the floor with the streaming, horizontality of the setting sun, and threw upwards the shadows of all facial irregularities in those assembled around. The stone-flag floor was worn into a path from the doorway to the kiln, and into undula- tions everywhere.
At present the crew are adequate to the task of work- ing them, but I and some of our fellow-passengers are ready to offer our assistance whenever it shall be necessary. With no immediate demand upon our labor, we are thrown upon our own resources for passing our time. M. Letourneur, Andre, and myself, have frequent conversa- tions; I also devote an hour or two to my diary.
Per- haps it would be more accurately described as a determined rebellion against her prejudices, a revulsion from a lower instinct of uncharitableness, which would have withheld all sympathy from the dead woman, be- cause in life she had preceded Bathsheba in the atten- tions of a man whom Bathsheba had by no means ceased from loving, though her love was sick to death just now with the gravity of a further misgiving.
"I wanted to ask you if the men made any observa- tions on my going behind the sedge with Mr. Boldwood yesterday?" "Yes, they did." said Gabriel. "You don't hold the shears right, miss I knew you wouldn't know the way hold like this." "Incline the edge so," he said. Hands and shears were inclined to suit the words, and held thus for a peculiarly long time by the in- structor as he spoke.
"They will tell of her in the West, tell of the vision of loveliness as she flashed through on her last burning mission, flashed through to her death-a falling star in the western heavens. "But neither legend nor vision is liberty, which was her life. Liberty cannot die. No work for liberty can be lost. It lives on in the hearts of the people, in their hopes, their aspira- tions, their activities.
Bathsheba's perturbed meditations by the roadside had ultimately evolved a conclusion that there were only two remedies for the present desperate state of affairs. The first was merely to keep Troy away from Weather- bury till Boldwood's indignation had cooled; the second to listen to Oak's entreaties, and Boldwood's denuncia- tions, and give up Troy altogether. Alas!
I hate needlework-i always did." "knitting?" "And that, too." "You might finish your sampler. Only the carna- tions and peacocks want filling in; and then it could be framed and glazed, and hung beside your aunt" ma'am." "Samplers are out of date horribly countrified. No Liddy, I'll read. Bring up some books not new ones. I haven't heart to read anything new."
He feels the beauty of the position of Todi, crowning the vineyards and olive-clad slopes, looking down upon distant woods and upon the valley of the Tiber, where towns and castles rise above the winding river. The lovely hills about Siena, with villas and monasteries on every height, are his own home, and his descrip- tions of them are touched with a peculiar feeling.
They need the figure of a Francis I. to complete them, or of a Diane de Poitiers, or even of a Henry III. The base of this exquisite structure emerges from a bed of light verdure, which has been allowed to mass itself there, and which contributes to the springing look of the walls; while on the right it joins the most modern portion of the castle, the building erected, on founda- tions of enormous height and solidity, in 1635, by Gaston d'Orleans.
The rain lasted about twenty minutes, when the cloud, only half exhausted, passed quite away from over us. We grasped each other's hands as we rose from the plat- form on which we had been lying, and mutual congratula- tions, mingled with gratitude, poured forth from our long silent lips.
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