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But now, half the lattice was quite blocked up, as if plastered with gray lime; and little fringes, like ferns, came through, where the joining of the lead was; and in the only undarkened part, countless dots came swarming, clustering, beating with a soft, low sound, then gliding down in a slippery manner, not as drops of rain do, but each distinct from his neighbour.
"Was it philosophy that supported you in your trials? There is an hour approaching when philosophy will fail, and all human science will desert you. What then will be your substitute? Tell me, Colonel Burr, or rather answer it to your own heart, when the pale messenger appears, how will you meet him 'undamped by doubts, undarkened by despair?
And gazing yet more intently on the spark, I became vaguely aware that it was not the soul, but the halo around the soul, as the star we see in heaven is not the star itself, but its circle of rays; and if the light itself was undisturbed and undarkened, it was because no sins done in the body could annihilate its essence, nor affect the eternity of its duration.
Isn't it curious to wish so passionately for the day which may place them near to death again? But the longing for health is a simple instinct, undarkened by logic. Yet some of them have plans. Scutts has plans. For a fortnight now he has watched for the post. "Parcel come for me, Sister? Small parcel?" Or he will meet the postman in the corridor. "Got my eye yet?" he asks.
"And yet, Sibyll, this young man can in all, save wealth and a sounding name, give thee more than I can, a heart undarkened by moody memories, a temper unsoured by the world's dread and bitter lore of man's frailty and earth's sorrow.
And gazing yet more intently on the spark, I became vaguely aware that it was not the soul, but the halo around the soul, as the star we see in heaven is not the star itself, but its circle of rays; and if the light itself was undisturbed and undarkened, it was because no sins done in the body could annihilate its essence, nor affect the eternity of its duration.
In the light, fresh American air, unthickened and undarkened by customs and institutions established, these things, as the phrase is, told. Hawthorne appears, like his own Miles Coverdale, to have arrived at Brook Farm in the midst of one of those April snow-storms which, during the New England spring, occasionally diversify the inaction of the vernal process.
"And yet, Sibyll, this young man can in all, save wealth and a sounding name, give thee more than I can, a heart undarkened by moody memories, a temper unsoured by the world's dread and bitter lore of man's frailty and earth's sorrow.
It was undarkened and unstained, the same lonely brightness that had dawned every morning for untold thousands of years. Shif'less Sol showed no disappointment. Again all seemed to be happening as he wished. Presently he left the hill and, face toward the south, began to walk swiftly and silently down the rows of trees.
The cave-tiger's eye remained undarkened, but the puny weapon had dealt it a smart flesh wound, and with a great bellow of surprise and pain it scampered away to gain space for a rush and a spring. But the woman did not await its charge.
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