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I have brought home my old grievance quite whole and unlightened by communication, and I have got a new and fresh one in addition, with absolutely no one to whom to impart it; for, even when Frank comes, I will certainly not tell him.
"Marry!" he gasped. "Yes." "Any particular person?" "Of course! You know whom." Mannering did not reply at once. He was looking steadfastly into the fire, and the gloom in his face was unlightened. "Hester," he said, at last, in a very low tone, "I will tell you, if you like, a short, a very short chapter of my life. It lasted a few hours, a day or so, more or less.
No books, no thoughts, no attainments, no rest, except only sometimes a little sitting in the sun under the church wall, as the bell tolls thin and far in the mountain air; a pattering of a few prayers, not understood, by the altar-rails of the dimly gilded chapel, and so, back to the sombre home, with the cloud upon them still unbroken that cloud of rocky gloom, born out of the wild torrents and ruinous stones, and unlightened even in their religion, except by the vague promise of some better thing unknown, mingled with threatening, and obscured by an unspeakable horror a smoke, as it were, of martyrdom, coiling up with the incense; and amidst the images of tortured bodies and lamenting spirits in hurtling flames, the very cross, for them, dashed more deeply than for others with gouts of blood.
I did not stop to reason. Something had commanded me to go at once to Michael Strange's home. And though I stopped more than once, deliberately turning in my tracks, inevitably I was forced to retrace my steps and continue. I remember passing through the square, and prowling through the unlightened side streets that lay beyond.
No, Captain Roland was one of those men who seize hold of your thoughts, who mix themselves up with your lives. The idea that Roland should die, die with the load at his heart unlightened, was one that seemed to take a spring out of the wheels of nature, all object out of the aims of life, of my life at least.
Now a sharper lash of wind cut down and they huddled closer. It was an edging, shifting, pushing throng. There was no anger, no pleading, no threatening words. It was all sullen endurance, unlightened by either wit or good fellowship. A carriage went jingling by with some reclining figure in it. One of the men nearest the door saw it. "Look at the bloke ridin'." "He ain't so cold."
His keen eyes, as he spoke, burned upon the dark face of the Acadian. Lecorbeau did not flinch. He returned the piercing gaze calmly and respectfully, saying: "Have I not proved it, Reverend Father?" A phantom of a smile went over the priest's thin lips, leaving his eyes unlightened. "It is well! You shall have yet another chance to prove it.
"I was poor," he almost echoed. "The rich and the poor are met together," she began, and he finished: "The Lord is the Maker of them all." "Yes," she said slowly; "and how foolish our human distinctions seem now," looking down to the great dead city stretched below, swimming in unlightened shadows. "Yes I was not human, yesterday," he said. She looked at him.
The enemies are all round about David just as they were, 'making a noise like a dog, as he says, and 'going round about the city. The evil that was threatening him and making him sad remains entirely unlightened. What has altered? He has altered. And how has he altered?
He did not look forward to telling her; and by the time he reached the Bank and got into an omnibus, he was in a highly nervous state, as the following incident may serve to show. He had taken one of those uncomfortable private omnibuses, where the passengers are left in unlightened gloom.
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