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Updated: May 10, 2025
With a shiver in the very middle of his body, he hastened to the other side: there lay the country of air, and fire, and safe earthly homeliness: the side he left was the dank region of the unknown, whose march-ditch was the grave. They hurried with the rest of their work. Aggie insisted on being at the farther side of the bed when they made it.
She rose to go, and Belinda also, with languid response of motion, as if Paulina Maria were an upstirring wind. When Paulina Maria opened the outer door there was a rush of dank night air. "Don't you want me to walk home with you and Aunt Belinda?" asked Jerome. "It's pretty dark."
When finally this was accomplished the door creaked heavily on its hinges and a musty smell came from the dank corridor that was revealed. The explorers walked ankle-deep in dust through a maze of rooms until they came to a big central hall of statues. So artistically fashioned were they that they seemed lifelike in their attitudes, and for a moment all held their breath.
An ancient oak chest, ribbed with iron and secured by several massive padlocks, stood on the table. The day was cold. A close mist that had come from the mountains hovered over the court and crept into every crevice, chilling and dank. There was much preliminary business to go through, and the people who thronged the court watched it with ill-concealed impatience.
"You shall not marry into the Blithers family, my lad, if we can help it," said the Count, pulling at his moustaches. "I should say not!" said Dank, feeling for his. "I should as soon marry a daughter of Hobbs," said R. Schmidt, getting up from his chair with restored sprightliness. "If he had one, I mean."
They were moving down the winding woodland alley. They brushed their way through the delicate overhanging foliage. The dank scent of the place was seductive. It was intoxicating with an atmosphere such as lovers are powerless to resist. The murmur of the river came to them on the one hand, and the silence of the pine woods, on the other, lent a slumberous atmosphere to the whole place.
Having reached this conclusion, Adhelmar wheeled upon his men, and cursed them for tavern-idlers and laggards and flea-hearted snails, and bade them spur. Melite, at her window, heard them depart, and heard the noise of their going lapse into the bland monotony of the rain's noise. This dank night now divulged no more, and she turned back into the room.
Dank lay on the floor on his stomach, his shoulders hunched, raised on his elbows, his chin supported by his clenched fists. He was a dark and white boy with dusty eyelashes and rough, doggy hair. He had puckered up his mouth and made it small; under the scowl of his twisted eyebrows he was looking at nothing. "It's no worse for you than it is for Master Mark," said Jenny. "Isn't it?
Now, when it is proposed to alter and confine the course of the Mississippi, we recall the arguments of the Iberian orators, and say to ourselves, if the member from St. Louis was as good an economist as those of Valencia, and the representatives from New Orleans as powerful logicians as those of Oporto, assuredly the Mississippi would be left "To sleep amid its forests dank and lone,"
Now he was being led out to die in the midst of his companions, the fiendish faces all about him, the Hindoos stood by the touch-holes with lighted torches. Now they were binding him, the gaping muzzle was pressing his back Then he woke and sat up, trembling from head to foot, the dank perspiration standing in beads on his forehead. Thank God it was only a dream.
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