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Supper was steaming on the hot coals with a delicious fragrance. Then came the pleasantest time of the day, after a long chase or jaunt the silent moments, watching the glowing embers of the fire; the speaking moments when a red-blooded story rang clear and true; the twilight moments, when the wood-smoke smelled sweet. Jones seemed unusually thoughtful.
He took pleasure in fancying, in picturing the one holy pastor of humanity, ever watching in the depths of that closed palace, and, while the nations strayed into hatred, preparing all for the final reign of Jesus, and at last proclaiming the advent of that reign by transforming our democracies into the one great Christian community promised by the Saviour.
What secret was there between Bertha and this woman? I turned my eyes from her with a horrible dread lest my insight should return, and I should be obliged to see what had been breeding about two unloving women's hearts. I felt that Bertha had been watching for the moment of death as the sealing of her secret: I thanked Heaven it could remain sealed for me. Meunier said quietly, "She is gone."
No man can rightly understand the whole contents of the blessed proclamation, 'Christ has come, unless he ends the sentence with 'and Christ will come. Blessed is 'that servant whom the Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching.
"We never had a brother," said the child of Mr Wodehouse's old age; "it must be some mistake." There was a dead pause after these words. When she looked round again, a sickening conviction came to Lucy's heart that it was no mistake. She rose up without knowing it, and looked round upon all the people, who were watching her with various looks of pity and curiosity and spectator-interest.
Peggy, see how light-hearted you have made me. Our merriment hath caused Colonel Dayton to give us unusual attention." Peggy glanced at the officer. He had been watching the drill, but several times had turned to look at them. As the drill ended he came slowly toward them. "You seem quite happy this morning," he observed. Something in his manner struck the girl with foreboding.
The river is fine and getting higher and higher each moment. You shouldn't miss such a sight as this." "I have not missed it," was the reply, given while the speaker's eyes took a soulful upward glance. "I cannot enjoy nature with people laughing and talking about me. I must be alone and commune with it. I have stood here watching from the window. What a beautiful and yet a terrible scene it is.
A half-hour later, when the man had almost grown tired of his watching, he again caught sight of the great fly. This time she alighted on a half-submerged log, one end of which lay on shore by the man's feet, while the other end was afloat in deep water, where it could rise and fall with every change in the level of the pool.
I shall wear her out, Sir, with sitting in this close chamber and watching when she ought to be sleeping, if you leave me to the care of Nature without dosing me. This was rather strange pleasantry, under the circumstances.
Like the Larinidæ, but under conditions of greater difficulty, the Curculionidæ must use the implement in order to prepare the way for the installation of their eggs. But however well founded our suspicion may be, it is not a certitude. I can only discover the secret by watching the insect at work.
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