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Updated: May 17, 2025
But the Sunday evenings were the saddest of all, because of the relative gaiety in other homes on that day, for there are joyful evenings even among those forgotten hamlets of the coast; here and there, from some closed-up hut, beaten about by the inky rains, ponderous songs issued.
"Those men are not whipped," said a keen observer to me, as he looked at the closed-up column moving. And he was right. The morale of this remnant of the great army of Northern Virginia was untouched. Those who saw them then will testify to the truth of my statement. At Amelia Court-House a terrible blow, however, awaited them.
But he was thinking, at the moment, of the closed-up room; of the possibility of their knocking at the door on some special occasion; of their being alarmed at receiving no answer; of their bursting it open; of their finding the room empty; of their fastening the door into the court, and rendering it impossible for him to get into the house without showing himself in the garb he wore, which would lead to rumour, rumour to detection, detection to death.
The main business part of the town was built up around the square, like lots of old-fashioned towns is, and they was jest enough brightness from four, five electric lights to show the shape of the square and be reflected from the windows of the closed-up stores. I knowed they was likely a watchman somewheres about, too.
I don't suppose there are any rifle holes in the specie room are there, Mr. Geisler?" "Nodt a vun," rejoined the German, in a peculiar voice, and then they noticed, in the gloomy light of the closed-up place, that his face was ashen white. It was clear that the German was badly frightened. His knees seemed to be knocking together, in fact. Small wonder, too.
Kitty came on, and soon they stood on the greensward directly beneath Stella's bedroom window. The morning was very still, and the Martins' house looked forbidding, with its silent, closed-up air. It was not yet half-past five, and not even the servants were stirring. Marjorie's courage failed her. "I guess we won't try Stella first," she whispered to Kitty. "Stella's so scary.
They talked of their old owner, whose steps had so often passed beneath them with her own light tread light now, but how dancing then! by his side; and of her father, whose hand perhaps had long ago tapped those very trees where she had noticed the old closed-up scars of the axe.
They talked of their old owner, whose steps had so often passed beneath them with her own light tread, light now, but how dancing then! by his side; and of her father whose hand perhaps had long ago tapped those very trees where she had noticed the old closed-up soars of the axe.
Had she not been very cautious the advancing mirror would have struck her with great force, but she had presence of mind to withdraw her hand very gradually, repressing the swiftness of the spring. The aperture occasioned by the opening of the mirror consisted of a recess, formed by a closed-up window.
Either she had committed the final act before such daylight as could filter through the shutters of this closed-up room had quite disappeared, an hypothesis instantly destroyed by the warmth which still lingered in certain portions of her body, or else the light which had been burning when she pulled the fatal trigger had since been carried elsewhere or extinguished.
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