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Updated: May 9, 2025
He had the face of a saint with the habits of a debauchee. His pale and student-like features were of the most classic mold, and their expression singularly winning, save when at times a cynical sneer would suddenly flash over them like a cloud-shadow over a quiet landscape. He was a lawyer, and stood at the head of the bar.
From the cloud-shadow it emerges to the sunshine let the heart come out from the shadow of roofs to the open glow of the sky. High above, the songs of the larks fall as rain receive it with open hands. Pure is the colour of the green flags, the slender-pointed blades let the thought be pure as the light that shines through that colour.
The sea was very blue, only patched with green wherever a cloud-shadow fell on it. Down beneath the cliff on which the cottage stood, the waves broke lazily in long white lines of foam. On the sea itself were vessels of almost every kind, from the little fishing craft with brown sails to great ships sailing away to distant lands.
Mildred thought this an unpleasant drink, she called it messy; but Kate adored it, and Captain Benyon always accepted it. The day I speak of, to change the subject, she called her sister's attention to the extraordinary sharpness of a zigzagging cloud-shadow, on the tinted slope of Vesuvius; but Mildred only remarked in answer that she wished her sister would many the captain.
The old, old earth is glad to turn from the cark and care of drifted centuries to the first sweet blades of green. There is sunshine to-day after rain, and every lark is singing. Across the vale a broad cloud-shadow descends the hillside, is lost in the hollow, and presently, without warning, slips over the edge, coming swiftly along the green tips.
The desert rushed by them, worlds of waxy green creosote bushes and white, gnarly clumps of salt bush; and straight ahead, frowning down on the forgotten city, rose the black cloud-shadow of Shadow Mountain. "Oh, turn off here!" she cried, impulsively as they came to a fork in the road and, plowing up the sand, he skidded around a curve and struck off up the Death Valley road.
I have seen a pickerel dodge as quickly at a sudden cloud-shadow as at the motion of a man wielding a fish pole. We can be less certain about the hearing of fishes. They have, however, very respectable inner ears, built on much the same plan as in higher animals.
If the house is by the sea the walls should repeat with many variations the tones of sea and sand and sky; the gray-greens of sand-grasses; the blues which change from blue to green with every cloud-shadow; the pearl tints which become rose in the morning or evening light, and the browns and olives of sea mosses and lichens.
It did not bound into the air and float, as the buck had seemed to do, but slid smoothly, like a small, dense patch of cloud-shadow a direct, inevitable movement, wasting no force and fairly eating up the trail of the fleeing deer. As it came down the slope, disappearing in the hemlock groves and emerging upon the bright, snowy hollows, the dread shape resolved itself into a pack of seven wolves.
There was a whispering rush, as if giants were swiftly dealing cards in the silence, and the White Wolf of the Frozen Waste was away, racing like a cloud-shadow, rapid and impetuous as a greyhound, at the head of a pack of one hundred and twenty-nine empty-stomached wolves.
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