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She learned more about Allan, and incidentally Johnny Hewitt, in the talk as they lingered about the table, than she had ever known before. She and Allan had lived so deliberately in the placid present, with its almost childish brightnesses and interests, that she knew scarcely more about her husband's life than the De Guenthers had told her before she married him.
Julien La Brierre, of New Orleans, who was numbered among the missing. And they brought dead Adele back, up shadowy river windings, over linked brightnesses of lake and lakelet, through many a green glimmering bayou, to the Creole city, and laid her to rest somewhere in the old Saint-Louis Cemetery. And upon the tablet recording her name were also graven the words Aussi a la memoire de son mari;
The reference is to the spiritual gift which belongs to the men 'who put their trust beneath the shadow of Thy wings. In communion with Him who is the Light as well as the Life of men, we see a whole universe of glories, realities, and brightnesses.
At last the dusk obliterates the letters on the white paper, the dusk short as a twinkle. The old man rested his head on the rock, and closed his eyes. Then "She who defends bright Chenstohova" took his soul, and transported it to "those fields colored by various grain." On the sky were burning yet those long stripes, red and golden, and on those brightnesses he was flying to beloved regions.
These glaring factories working night and day, these glittering new vehicles swinging noiselessly along the roads, these flights of dragon-flies that swooped and soared and circled in the air, were indeed no more than the brightnesses of lamps and fires that gleam out when the world sinks towards twilight and the night. Between these high lights accumulated disaster, social catastrophe.
But the aggregate is made up of units, and individual Christians are to shine 'as lights in the world, and their separate brightnesses are to coalesce in the clustered light of the whole Church.
II. The effects which this immensity often produces on men. Very commonly in old days it led to actual idolatry, bowing down before these calm, unreachable brightnesses. In our days it too often leads to forgetting God altogether, and not seldom to disbelief that man can be of any account in such a universe.
These hues appeared to be thrown together without design; and yet there was perfect harmony among them, and a softness and a delicacy made up of a thousand different brightnesses. There is not, I think, so much contrast among these colors as might at first appear.
Below her was the thick, powerful current of the now sinking river, laden with refuse which flowed backwards and forwards past the hotel; and upon the windows and casual brightnesses of the tall houses on the hill across the river she could see the crystal sparkling of reflected sunshine.
The thought of no longer being obliged to hold an inquest on every sixpence; of bidding farewell forever to this life of pinching and screwing; of dwelling decently instead of pigging it in a cramped and jerry-built semi-detached; of enjoying once more some of life's brightnesses sport, for instance, of which he was passionately fond; of the means to wander, when disposed, through earth's fairest places these reflections would have fired his soul as he stood there, but that the flame of hopefulness had long since died within him and gone out.
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