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These gains were due to the work of the loyal Hugh as advertising agent, or to some desperate discount sale to a club on the part of Westervelt, who haunted the front of the house, a pale and flabby wraith of himself, racking his brain, swearing strange, German oaths, and perpetually conjuring up new advertising devices. His suffering approached the tragic.
Andrew! here is the senachie and his wraith." Bruce perceived the mistake of his servants, and explaining to them that a traveling minstrel had obliged the senachie by performing his duty, he bade them retire to rest, and think no more of their alarm.
The shrill music and murmur from the parlors burst all at once in muffled volume upon the melody, and, turning, they both saw Marguerite standing in the doorway, like an angry wraith, and flitting back again. Mrs. Purcell laughed, but took up the thread of her song again where it was broken, and carried it through to the end. Then Mr.
It was like a wraith that answered again the old mystery, as if the words came up from his own heart: "I shall not come to you until the end!" Skag was back in the indefinite past all the dear hushed moments he had ever known massed in her voice. "Stay there not nearer and I can't fail!" He was saying it like a song his eyes not leaving the narrow veiled head before him.
"Grim, where are you?" "Here." Strange how tranquil he sounded. A scarecrow of a figure arose almost at his right from a smoldering bush, a giant clothed in smoking rags. In the strange illumination of the search beams he seemed the wraith of a scarecrow. "Thank God you're alive," Hilary croaked. "The others...?" Grim's practised eyes counted. "About fifty left," he said, "just one half."
Well, those are the main facts about the death of John Vansittart, and his appearance to his wife somewhere about lat. 35 N. and long. 15 W. A clearer case of a wraith has seldom been made out, and since then it has been told as such, and put into print as such, and endorsed by a learned society as such, and so floated off with many others to support the recent theory of telepathy.
Only Hester's hair, and her white dress as she passed along, uplifted, made of her a kind of luminous wraith, and beside her, like the supports of an altar-piece, moved the two pensive figures of Meynell and Alice. From a covert of thorn in the park, a youth who had retreated into its shelter on their approach watched them with malicious eyes.
Sometimes he smiled at her; sometimes at the wraith in the rafters. But not for one moment did the voice of the little singer cease its insistent cry for a complete rescue. The dwarf was silent, his shining face reflecting the peace and security of which the squatter girl sang. "Rescue the Perishin'; Care for the Dyin'." The beautiful voice did not falter.
She was very frail to-day, and in her white robe, and with her large eyes which seemed to have outgrown her face, she looked like the wraith of a woman rather than a creature of flesh and blood. "Those two her Grace rescued," she said, as Betty and Tom Beck retired; "the one from woe, the other from cruel wickedness.
And because of the suddenness of the attack coming from this most unexpected quarter, for Michael had stood somewhat in the shadow and because of the cowardliness of all bullies, for the moment he was able to prevail against all four, just long enough for the girl to slip like a wraith from their grasp and disappear into the shadows.
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