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"The elegant kiosks the ornamented gardens the pinnacled harems, the entrance to which lofty barriers jealously guarded the number of the tombs in their silent cities -gave an intense interest to the Turkish coast; while sumptuous barges, filled with veiled women, swept by us, and gave a fairy charm to the sea.
"Four men," said the landlord, "riding a la jineta, with lances and bucklers, and all with black veils, and with them there is a woman in white on a side-saddle, whose face is also veiled, and two attendants on foot." "Are they very near?" said the curate. "So near," answered the landlord, "that here they come."
Man may not be an automaton worked by environment, all the same he is the slave of environment, and never such a slave as when his environment is that of high Civilisation. For there the pure motives of the mind have ever to be regulated and falsified, the heart crushed, the face veiled. To break with all that falsity means shipwreck. "Which way does the sea lie?" asked the girl.
After this banner, amid frequent incense, walked two of the most beautiful children in Rome, dressed as angels with golden wings; the boy bearing a rose of Jericho, the girl a lily. After these, as was understood, dressed in black and veiled, walked six ladies, who were said to be daughters of the noblest houses of England, and then a single form with a veil touching the ground.
Tremblingly she put aside the cloth with which they had veiled it, and was undeceived. Repressing her feelings, she was again by the side of her little girls, when the fearful cries of the assailants once more rang through the air. "Stand to your post! Quit yourselves like men! Be firm!" shouted the stentorian voice of Edmund.
We have unfortunately scarcely any knowledge of his life, a point to be the more regretted, as we might then have pronounced with confidence on his character, which in the Satires is completely veiled. It contains one or two biographical notices, which show that he held positions of considerable importance.
Jack frequently stared eagerly off to the west, when the sun's glowing face was veiled for a brief time by some friendly cloud. Several times he believed he could see something that looked like a stretch of water, but dared not voice his hopes. Then came a time when a heavier cloud than usual masked the brightness of the declining sun.
"We all are that, Delia, but nevertheless I think you will do well to follow my suggestion in this matter." Mrs. Toomey recognized the veiled threat instantly.
The veiled lady turned to me and held out her hand. "I thank you, Mr. Lester, for your kindness," she said. "Come, Julie," and she moved toward the door, which Rogers hastened to open. Mr. Hornblower nodded and passed out after them, and Godfrey and I were left alone together. We both sat down, and for a moment neither of us spoke. "Well!" said Godfrey, at last. "Well! what a story it would make!
She walked for a mile or more recklessly, close veiled, with swift level footsteps, though her brain was in a whirl and a horrible faintness all the time hovered about her. Then she called a hansom and drove home. "Miss Pellissier," Brendon said gently, "I am afraid that some fresh trouble has come to you." She smiled at him cheerfully. "Am I dull?" she said. "I am sorry."
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