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These books were not the books of to-day; they had stood so long in their places unnoted and untouched, that they had acquired the color of fungus, and smelt Well, there is no use adding to the picture. Every one knows the spirit of sickening desolation pervading rooms which have been shut up for an indefinite length of time from air and sunshine.
The old mountaineer sat up as though an explosion had shaken him out of his drowsy complacency. The pipe that he held in his thin old fingers dropped to the floor and spilled its ashes unnoted. He gazed at them with the amazement of one who has been sitting blindly by while unseen forces have had birth and growth at his elbow. "Wed?" he exclaimed at last in an injured voice.
The hero of the night before could not hope to pass unnoted. He stepped into the street. It was a moonlit night. I remember that distinctly. He lighted his cigarette, and held his case toward me. I shook my head. I had no desire to smoke. We walked a few steps together in silence before he said: "I am trying to frame a most unusual request so that it may not seem too fantastic to you.
While he brooded over this mystery the days slipped past the young mystic almost unnoted; he wandered about the farm, passing from one fit of abstraction into another, doing nothing, saying nothing, thinking everything. The world was shrouded in a gloom through whose shifting mists a single star shone now and then, emitting a brilliant and dazzling ray. It was the figure of a gypsy.
So steady, so uniform in your conduct: so desirous, as you always said, of sliding through life to the end of it unnoted; and, as I may add, not wishing to be observed even for your silent benevolence; sufficiently happy in the noble consciousness which attends it: Rather useful than glaring, your deserved motto; though now, to your regret, pushed into blaze, as I may say: and yet blamed at home for the faults of others how must such a virtue suffer on every hand! yet it must be allowed, that your present trial is but proportioned to your prudence.
His ears open now to words which before that July day would have passed by him unnoted; and round every trivial incident which imagination could connect with his suspicions, a newly-roused set of feelings were ready to cluster themselves. One such incident a month later wrought itself deeply into his life.
They might have slumbered unnoted, like Lorenzo, if they had done as much for their country and Italy. December 19. It is with a heavy heart, that I sit down tonight to make my closing note in this lovely city and in the journal which has recorded my thoughts and impressions since leaving America. I should find it difficult to analyze my emotions, but I know that they oppress me painfully.
"Then since you have a holiday, well-deserved, no doubt, come on exploring with me." Roger was on his feet in a second, the arrow of reproof glancing off unnoted. "Where are you going?" he demanded. "Oh, just down here a few rods. We may have to hold up for the tide. It won't be low water for some time yet."
She knew that Franklin was a great man and had studied electricity very profoundly, for his day; but there are ten thousand unnoted operators to-day who know more of its properties, power and management than he ever dreamed of. She did not know but it might be so with regard to free government.
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