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I, who had shut out from my heart the poor temptations of sense I, who fed only the most glorious visions, the most august desires I, denied myself their fruition, trembling and spell-bound in the cerements of human laws, without hope, without reward, losing the very powers of virtue because I would not stray into crime. "These thoughts fell on me darkly and rapidly; but they led to no result.
We were standing where there was a fine view of the harbor and its long stretches of shore all covered by the great army of the pointed firs, darkly cloaked and standing as if they waited to embark. As we looked far seaward among the outer islands, the trees seemed to march seaward still, going steadily over the heights and down to the water's edge.
And so I sat there moodily, gnawing my lip and scowling darkly upon Pier Luigi and upon my cousin, who was as assiduous in his attentions as his master, and who seemed to be receiving an even greater proportion of her favours. One little thing there was to hearten me.
Darius sat upright upon the edge of his couch; the knotted veins upon his temples swelled with sudden anger and his brow flushed darkly. "Doubtless it is Phraortes who has set himself up as king," he said. Then, suddenly and fiercely, he turned upon Atossa. "Now is your hour come," he cried in uncontrollable anger.
All of this was so new, so terrible, I doubted its reality. Indeed, I doubted my own identity, as one does at times when brought face to face with some experiences which cannot be compared with past experiences or even measured by them. I groped darkly, for some new truth which was flickering just beyond the border of consciousness.
At the very least of these enormities the men of iron shook their heads and frowned so darkly that the revellers looked up, imagining that a momentary cloud had overcast the sunshine which was to be perpetual there.
She knew the deep, morbid, and painful interest which the memory of this wild and visionary creature created in Godolphin; and she trembled at the feeling she might re-awaken by even a faint picture of the condition and mental infirmities of her whose life he had so darkly shadowed.
As one thinks of that life so noble, so lonely, of that passion for truth of those nights and nights of eager study, swarming fancies, invention, depression, elation, prayer; as one reads the necessarily incomplete, though most touching and admirable history of the heart that throbbed in this one little frame of this one amongst the myriads of souls that have lived and died on this great earth this great earth? this little speck in the infinite universe of God with what wonder do we think of to-day, with what awe await to-morrow, when that which is now but darkly seen shall be clear!
"Sally Dows!" repeated Courtland, with a slight start. "Yes, Sally Dows, of Pineville." "You say she was half Union, but did she have any relations or or friends in the war on your side? Any who were killed in battle?" "They were all killed, I reckon," returned Miss Reed darkly.
"And why are you then so dangerous?" "Some have found me so; if I were to predict your fortune by the vain calculations of the astrologer, I should tell you, in their despicable jargon, that my planet sat darkly in your house of life. Cross me not, if you can avoid it. I warn you now for the first time and last." "You despise the astrologers, yet you utter a jargon as mysterious as theirs.
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