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And ever did the Hermit answer, 'All things that I have I will give thee, save that one thing only. For that thing it is not lawful for me to give away. And in the twilight of the third day they came nigh to the great scarlet gates of the City of the Seven Sins. And from the city there came the sound of much laughter. And the young Robber laughed in answer, and sought to knock at the gate.
With these words, which I did not understand in the least, he turned and left me, passing out into the lane by the side-gate. A minute later I heard the coach pull up, and yet a minute later roll on again, conveying him towards Plymouth. I stole a glance at the water, at the summer-house, at the tree behind it. Somehow in the twilight they all wore an uncanny look.
The sun lay warm upon the tree-tops. It could not be that he was going to die here and now; here in the living sunshine, with the quiet, friendly faces of the hills all around him. He strengthened his numb hold fiercely, all but lost it, regained it. Cramp, long held at bay, overcame him. And the boat kept turning in the twilight. He reached the end of his strength, and held on beyond it.
One has not to work in an office or in the fields. I've no superiors or officers over me. . . . I'm my own superior. And with all that I'm doing good to humanity!" And after dinner he composed himself for a "rest." He usually slept till the twilight of evening. But this time soon after dinner he felt that some one was pulling at his leg. Some one kept laughing and shouting his name.
Thus were godless hands stretched forth from Herod's house against him who bore witness to the coming One. After the act of baptism was accomplished, Jesus wandered for a long, long while indeed, he paid no heed to time along the banks of Jordan. Then he climbed the rocks, and when in the twilight he came to himself again and looked about, he saw that he was in the wilderness.
It was twilight of evening and almost eight o'clock when they came back to camp, Brewer leading the way, Hoffman following; and as they sat down by our fire without uttering a word we read upon their faces terrible fatigue. So we hastened to give them supper of coffee and soup, bread and venison, which resulted, after a time, in our getting in return the story of the day.
Twilight, moonshine, dew, and spring perfumes, are the element of these tender spirits; they assist nature in embroidering her carpet with green leaves, many-coloured flowers, and glittering insects; in the human world they do but make sport childishly and waywardly with their beneficent or noxious influences.
It was absolutely to Catalina herself that he advanced; whom, for many reasons, he could not be supposed to recognise lapse of years, male attire, twilight, were all against him. Still, she might have the family countenance; and Kate thought he looked with a suspicious scrutiny into her face, as he inquired for the young Don.
'What's the matter, Gerard, are you ill or giddy? asked Miss Nugent, coming up in the winter twilight. 'No, oh no! Only the dream of my life is over, he answered, scarce knowing what he said. 'You haven't cried Mary aghast. 'Oh no, he said, understanding the blank, 'only she won't take the pledge! 'I don't see how she could or ought, responded Mary. 'Is that all?
The day was not breaking as it does in this land of England, with a dewy twilight and a gradual dawning first a dull glow all over the east, then blood-red rays, catching any fleecy cloud which is stealing over the sky, and turning all its misty whiteness into gold and fire; but day was breaking as it does in those eastern countries sudden, and bright, and hot.
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