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"See here, father," said she, with the desperation of speaking her mind for the first time to one from whom she had hitherto kept awesomely remote; "when we moved into the new house, I dunno's there was any talk about your comin', too. I guess it never entered into our heads you'd do anything but to stick to the old place. An' now, after it's all past an' gone, the neighbors say"
"Bless yer, wot's in my room's in yours; Lor', yes." Glad's eyes stared into hers, they became mysteriously, almost awesomely, astonishing also. "Is it?" she breathed in a hushed voice. "Yes, Lor', yes! When yer get up in the mornin' you just stand still an' ARST it. 'Speak, Lord, ses you; 'speak, Lord " "Thy servant 'eareth," ended Glad's hushed speech. "Blimme, but I 'm goin' to try it!"
The rain now fell steadily in straight stripes; the noise grew fainter and the sky broke open. Soaked through with the wet, the children came creeping out of the ditch and now, holding their breaths, stood looking at that tree which was so awesomely cleft and at that crippled bough which hung swinging over space.
Sir Lionel now joined us; and, a silent quartette, we stood staring from the dead reptile into the damp and evil-smelling tunnel. A distant muttering and rumbling rolled, echoing awesomely along it. "For Heaven's sake what was that, sir?" whispered Kennedy. "It was the thunder," answered Nayland Smith. "The storm is breaking over the hills. Steady with the lamp, my man."
He reached, over and pulled up a tuft of sod at his side; for all one could have told, it might have been growing there, neighbor to all the other sods. Underneath was a dark little hole in the ground; and out of this he brought a brown earthen crock. "The crock o' gold!" everybody whispered, awesomely. "Aye, the crock o' gold," agreed the cobbler.
It was a scene of unspeakable grandeur, but it was so awesomely mighty in its scope, one was afraid, and his soul shriveled within him as he looked at those inconceivable masses floating forever alone in the silence of the inconceivable nothingness of eternal cold and eternal darkness. One was awed, suppressed by their sheer magnitude. A magnificent spectacle truly, but one no man could love.
In short, the thing could be read two ways, like all prophecies, and only one line of it was true beyond a doubt namely, that Wave-Flame and I should sleep together. Awhile later the lightning shone awesomely, like to the swords of a whole army of destroying angels, so that the sky became alive with fire.
Could she tell if her lips were not sealed by a murderer's hand?" "She!" The word came low and awesomely. Rude and uncultured as the man was, he seemed to be strangely affected by this unexpected suggestion. "I haven't the wit to answer that," said he. "How can we tell what she knew. The man who killed her is in jail. He might talk to some purpose. Why don't you question him?"
But she didn't; she slipped up on the word "receive," after all, putting the i before the e; and her stolid companion, catching her breath awesomely, slowly spelled it right and received the blue prize, pinned gracefully at the throat of her old brown gingham by the teacher's own soft, white fingers, while the school looked on admiringly and the blood rolled hotly up the back of her neck and spread over her face and forehead.
Flitcroft broke the silence, rushing into words with a derisive laugh: "Yes, he's 'talked of' for Mayor by the saloon people and the niggers! I expect the Beaver Beach crowd would be for him, and if tramps could vote he might " "What is Beaver Beach?" asked Ariel, not turning. "What is Beaver Beach?" he repeated, and cast his eyes to the sky, shaking his head awesomely.
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