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It was a lovely summer night, as different as possible from the haze and chill of the preceding one, with a little new moon just disappearing, and everything softened and whitened by her soft presence in the sky. Mrs. Wilberforce and Minnie went first, invisible in the dimness of the evening, then the two solid darknesses of the rector and Warrender. Dick came behind with Mrs.
By this time our forces had wasted as though under assault of arms. Far back on the trail, many had been forced to leave prized belongings, relies, heirlooms, implements, machinery, all conveniences. The finest of mahogany blistered in the sun, abandoned and unheeded. Our trail might have been followed by discarded implements of agriculture, and by whitened bones as well.
Above, the whitened branches of the firs looked like spectres, and upon the upturned face of the dead soldier fell flakes of snow like congealed tears. Under the flickering of the torch-flames, blown about by the north wind, the hero seemed at times to move again, and a wild desire came to Andras to leap down into the grave and snatch away the body.
I saw that his hair had whitened noticeably in the last two months. "If this is true, it's more important than you realise. It's so important that " He searched us with his kind but keen grey eyes. "Thomas A. Edison says it's true," put in Widding. "That ought to be good enough evidence." "And Lieutenant Ryerson tells me that Admiral Fletcher spoke favourably of the matter," I added.
The venerable man appeared, however, as if he might still do his share in keeping the world busy, and also in banishing its evils. Although time had whitened his locks, it had touched kindly his stalwart frame, while his square jaw and strong features indicated a character that had met life's vicissitudes as a man should meet them.
"It's so hard, though, Floyd, so awfully hard, and the days have been so long! Floyd, do you ever wonder and wonder where they are?" The man shook his shoulders sharply. "Do I ever wonder, Fledra? My hair is whitened, my life shortened, and many of my efforts of no avail, because of my sorrow and yours.
"Then will it please my lord to disguise himself, and walk through the streets of Cairo; the moon is bright, and the hyena prowls not now, but mingles his howlings with those of the jackal afar off." "Your face is whitened, Mustapha, and it pleaseth us. Let the disguises be prepared, and we will sally forth."
"More Devil than God about Colmoor, it strikes me". "As though you knew! Suppose I strike you blind now with a flash of Him?" "I don't take your meaning, sir", said Bates, with a strange heart- bound and sense of awe. "Do you remember 33 of the quarry-gang, Fred?" "Yes". Hogarth whispered: "It was I who got him off". Bates whitened to the lips. "I I thought as much".
The widow had whitened under her rouge, but her eyes did not falter in their direct gaze. "The signature is genuine. I drew the check." The two men exchanged glances. The bank president was the first to break the short silence. "In that case there is nothing more to be said," he remarked, and picking up the check handed it to Mrs. Brewster.
Out of the East it welled and whitened; the darkness trembled into light; and the stars were extinguished like the street-lamps of a human city. The whiteness brightened into silver, the silver warmed into gold, the gold kindled into pure and living fire; and the face of the East was barred with elemental scarlet.
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