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You have but to look into your own hearts, you listening women, to know that he lives!... Oh, Beth, her work does live to bless her! Can't you see how dead-cold the clay felt to my fingers after that?" "Did he speak of his mother?" "No." Beth arose. "Vina," she said, "we are absolutely detached from the centres of sanity.
I said, 'Don't you remember me? She lifted her slate, and wrote, 'I remember you, in a dead swoon at Windygates House. I was quite unaware that she had been present when I fainted in the library. The discovery startled me or that dreadful, dead-cold look that she has in her eyes startled me I don't know which. I couldn't speak to her just at first.
And by and by one face alone confronted him it was brighter than the moonlit way. It smiled understandingly it, too, had faced the broad highway it could afford to smile. Once more the heavy, dead-cold hand moved toward the stand beside the bed, but it fell nerveless ere it reached what it sought. The escape had been achieved! The days passed and, unfettered, Jim White remained in the deep woods.
All kept silence After her speaking, None might know That woman's mind, Or why she must weep To tell of the work That laughing once Of men she prayed. BRYNHILD SPAKE: "In dreams, O Gunnar, Grim things fell on me; Dead-cold the hall was, And my bed was a-cold, And thou, lord, wert riding Reft of all bliss, Laden with fetters 'Mid the host of thy foemen."
And the next verse reiterates the prophecies of the moving waters: Like the march of doom Came those great powers of marching silences; Then fog came down, dead-cold, and hid the seas.
Ah, I will kiss My king laid lifeless, Ere thou castest by Thy blood-stained byrny. O Helgi, thy hair Is thick with death's rime, With the dew of the dead Is my love all dripping; Dead-cold are the hands Of the son of Hogni; How for thee, O my king, May I win healing?
She seemed to sob and wail, till Miss Rosamond could bear it no longer, and was flying to the door to open it, when, all of a sudden, and close upon us, the great organ pealed out so loud and thundering, it fairly made me tremble; and all the more, when I remembered me that, even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the windowglass, although the phantom child had seemed to put forth all its force; and, although I had seen it wail and cry, no faintest touch of sound had fallen upon my ears.
I've bet every sou of the last amount he sent me on your old baseball team, and if you don't take this game " "We will, don't worry about that. We could have done so anyhow, but of course you've helped make it a dead-cold certainty. If you've got any friends here who " "Friends!" sneered Rackliff; "friends among these country yokels! Don't make me laugh, for it might start me coughing again."
There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea; the dead-cold hearths showed no traces of having ever been warmed but in heaps of soot that had tumbled down the chimneys, and eddied about in little dusky whirlwinds when the doors were opened.
I feel it creeping on my face like a little fluttering breeze. The sensation pleased me for a while. Soon it grew colder, and colder, and colder, till it froze me. "Oh, no more!" I cried out. "You are killing me with an icy death!" The dead-cold touches lingered a moment longer and left me. The first sound came. It was the sound of a whisper on my pillow, close to my ear.
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