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The clock ticked, the coals blazed higher, and contended with the white radiance that poured in through the windows. Unnoticed, the sun occupied his sky, and the shadows of the tree stems, extraordinarily solid, fell like trenches of purple across the frosted lawn. It was a glorious winter morning.
To-day, when the Lord of Ivarsdale came unnoticed into the dim light while the last strains of the vesper service were rising, there were no more than a score of worshippers scattered through the north aisle, a handful of women, wives of the Abbot's military tenants, a trader bound for the land beyond the ford, a couple of yeomen and a hollow-eyed pilgrim, drifting with the current of his unsteady mind.
Hives are frequently abandoned by their occupants, in consequence of the loss of their Queen, unnoticed by any observer, and before any thing is known of their fate, the hive is destitute of bees, and filled with moths.
The child cannot turn in mid-career; he goes fast, but the impetus took place moments ago. During the many years in which "evolution" was the favourite word, one significant lesson so it seems was learnt, which has outlived controversy, and has remained longer than the questions at issue an interesting and unnoticed thing cast up by the storm of thoughts.
" loses by about half a second," continued Missou. "If Doc hadn't roped its hind laig " "Have some cigars, boys. I brought a box back with me." Reddy tossed a handful on the table, where they continued to lie unnoticed. " there's no telling what would have happened. As 'twas the old man got off with a " "Y'u bet, they're good cigars all right," broke in the propitiatory Reddy.
I died in my first youth, before I had been a lover; at a distance, also, from the grave which fancy had dug for me; and they buried me in the thronged cemetery of a town, where my marble slab stands unnoticed amid a hundred others. And there are coffins on each side of mine! "Alas, poor ghost!" will the reader say.
His face was swollen and bruised and his nose bled. The street was deserted and the assault upon him had been unnoticed. He went to a hotel on Main Street a more pretentious place than Ed's, near the bridge leading to the station and as he passed in he saw, through an open door, Jake, the red-haired man, leaning against the bar and talking to Bill, the man with the florid face.
When night comes he will sup with the king, queen, and princess; and all the time he will never take his eyes off her, stealing stealthy glances, unnoticed by those present, and she will do the same, and with equal cautiousness, being, as I have said, a damsel of great discretion.
In a short time he heard a deep dull sound, and soon they came along, a host of armed men. He fell in unnoticed near the head of the column. Soon after he had joined them they halted, and three or four knights came up and entered into conversation with their leaders. Guy recognized among them Sir Robert de Mailly, Sir Charles de Lens, and several others of the household of the Duke of Burgundy.
But La Faloise's imbecile pleasantry had upset him in spite of his apparent tranquillity. "What's the matter?" asked Philippe. "You seem in trouble." "I do? Not at all. I've been working: that's why I came so late." Then coldly, in one of those heroic moods which, although unnoticed, are wont to solve the vulgar tragedies of existence: "All the same, I haven't made my bow to our hosts.
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