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Updated: July 15, 2025
Was it not natural then that these northerns, dwelling in daily communion with this grand Nature, should fancy they could perceive a mysterious and independent energy in her operations, and at last come to confound the moral contest man feels within him, with the physical strife he finds around him, to see in the returning sun fostering into renewed existence the winter-stifled world even more than a TYPE of that spiritual consciousness which alone can make the dead heart stir; to discover even more than an ANALOGY between the reign of cold, darkness, and desolation, and the still blanker ruin of a sin-perverted soul?
For a moment each robber gazed blankly at the contents of his bundle, and then they all began to fumble and search among the piles of articles upon the cloths; but after a few minutes, they arose, looking blanker and more disappointed than before. "So far as I can see," said the Captain, "there is nothing in the whole collection that I care for. I do not like a thing here!"
"`Missis? he says; `what missis? "`Your mother, says I. `She was with a man, but he weren't the man she runned away from here with, and she made he buy the team. "Master Martin didn't say any more, and Miss Phemie went on crying; but there was a blanker look come on old master's face, and he said very quiet: "`There, that'll do, lad. I believe 'ee, and forgive thee.
The latter told himself that he had never seen a blanker countenance. In profile it showed a narrow brow, a huge, drooping nose, a pinched mouth and insignificant chin. From the front the face of the man in the doorway held the round, unscored cheeks of a fat and sleepy boy.
"Come out here, you beggar," he called, and Vernon reappeared on the threshold. "Take a look at this," he added, and held out the note. "Maybe you won't be so cocksure hereafter that diplomats are always making mountains out of mole-hills." Vernon took the paper and read it slowly, his face growing blanker and more blank as he proceeded.
Karyl's hair was rumpled; his eyes darkly ringed, and the line of his lips close set. Benton glanced out of his window. Across the gardens the wall was growing blanker, as lighted panes fell dark. One window, which he knew was Cara's, still showed a parallelogram of light behind its drawn shade. Karyl in passing followed the glance. He, too, recognized the window. At last the Galavian spoke.
Vincent had dropped into an arm-chair with his back to the window, brooding over his shattered ambitions; all his proud self-confidence in his ability to win fame for the woman he loved was gone now; he felt that he had neither the strength nor the motive to try again. If if this he had heard was true, he must be an exile, with lower aims and a blanker life than those he had once hoped for.
Young Raleigh, who had written a monograph on engineering stresses, had still much to learn about the stresses that contort and warp the souls of men and women. He learned some of it then, when he saw the girl's face deaden to a blanker white and the flame of a hungry hope leap into her eyes. He looked away quickly. "You mean you can?" He hushed her with his brisk and matter-of-fact little nod.
This last remark was addressed gruffly to Mrs Frog, who, during the previous conversation, had seated herself on a low three-legged stool, and, clasping her hands over her knees, gazed at the dirty blank walls in blanker despair. The poor woman realised the situation better than her drunken husband did.
Harrigan, still with clouded mind, raised the glass and drank. It was a fine sherry wine. "How old would you say that wine was?" queried the Scotchman with exaggerated carelessness. The carelessness did not deceive Harrigan. His mind went blanker still, for he knew little about good wines. "Well?" asked the engineer.
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