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Semyonov, meanwhile, continued: "What were those words you used to me not so long ago? Something about free Russia, I think Russia moving like one man to save the world Russia with an unbroken front.... Too optimistic, weren't you?" The padding feet stopped.
There was smoky haze in the valleys, a fleecy cloud resting over the peaks, a sailing eagle in the blue sky, silence that was the unbroken silence of the wild heights, and a soft wind laden with incense of pine. One afternoon, however, Edith appeared prone to talk seriously. "Majesty, I must go home soon. I cannot stay out here forever. Are you going back with me?"
It is simply murder, taking the men up in regular order against such a foe sheltered by earthworks." At this moment the long line of fire darted out from the American intrenchments. "Look there!" Captain Wilson cried in a pained voice. "The front line is nearly swept away! Do you see them lying almost in an unbroken line on the hillside?
Unbroken forests bounded this hidden Lake Profundis, out of whose placid waters rose that mountain-crowned, verdure-clad Island of Peace, with its picturesque home, and its cultured owner, who had brought into this best of the wilderness the best of civilization. "What is this mystery? How am I concerned in it? For I am, and mystery there is.
The dreary aspect of the large and ill-lighted room the close-curtained boxes the unsocial look of every thing and body about suited the habit of my soul, and I was on the verge of becoming excessively sentimental the unbroken silence, where several people were present, had also its effect upon me, and I felt oppressed and dejected.
All day long the river was rising under its miles of unbroken ice, rising at the threatening rate of four inches an hour. Edgewood went to bed as usual that night, for the bridge at that point was set too high to be carried away by freshets, but at other villages whose bridges were in less secure position there was little sleep and much anxiety.
The silence remained unbroken, until Paralus asked for music. A cithara being brought, Philothea played one of his favourite songs, accompanied by her voice. The well-remembered sounds seemed to fill him with joy beyond his power to express; and again his anxious parent cherished the hope that reason would be fully restored.
Those who have ever made their way by night up the Pasig, on one of those magical nights that the Philippines offers, when the moon pours out from the limpid blue her melancholy light, when the shadows hide the miseries of man and the silence is unbroken by the sordid accents of his voice, when only Nature speaks they will understand the thoughts of both these youths.
The three strolled along to the grassy bank behind the trees and directly before the half-ruined house. Shell fire had destroyed one end of it. But the other end wall was complete. On the second floor was a window. The lower sash was removed, but in the upper sash there were several small, unbroken panes of glass.
There could be no doubt that the enemy would attack with the first glimpse of daylight; only for seven or eight hours now would that deep tranquillity remain unbroken. And shortly after the dim light in the colonel's tent was extinguished Maurice was amazed to see Captain Beaudoin glide by, keeping close to the hedge, with furtive steps, and vanish in the direction of Sedan.
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