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Updated: May 3, 2025
The cold grey light of the early morning at this deadest season of the year fell cheerlessly on the living-room; in which for the greater safety of the house he had insisted on passing the night. Anne, whose daily task it was to open the shutters, had been down then: she must have been down, or whence the pile of fresh cones and splinters that crackled, and spirted flame about the turned log.
Would it not be almost a duty to preserve this house like Carlyle's and put up a tablet, and show it? "Specimen of mid-Victorian abode entrance, one shilling, with catalogue." After all, it was the completest thing, and perhaps the deadest in the London of to-day.
Glittering jewels of sunlight and dew were nothing but drops of water upon blades of grass. Fresh-bursting trees were no more than the deadest of winter-bitten branches. The great eastern window of the universe, gorgeous with gold and roses, was but the weary sun making a fuss about nothing. My sole relief lay in motion. I roamed I knew not whither, nor how long.
We had crossed the short expanse of sea, and passing a small lighthouse were entering a square harbor lined with fishing-boats. Stoutly built, solid fishing-boats they were, meant for stormy weather; and their metal pennons, which could never droop in deadest calm, flew bravely, all in the same direction, like flags in a company of lances in an old Froissart picture.
"Take her? How could we take her when we were becalmed?" "And the Yankee skipper got right away?" "Right away, a robber; and took the prize-money we had so honestly earned along with him. All that trouble for nothing; and what was worse, we couldn't come in search of you, for it fell about the deadest calm I ever saw in all my experience at sea, and that isn't saying much, is it, Van?"
'I couldn't find the texas-tender; I had to go all the way to the pantry. 'Derned likely story! Fill up the stove. I proceeded to do so. He watched me like a cat. Presently he shouted 'Put down that shovel! Deadest numskull I ever saw ain't even got sense enough to load up a stove. All through the watch this sort of thing went on.
"Gertrude! it's too amazing!" The girl's tone was full of a joyous wonder. "You know they told us at head-quarters that this was one of the deadest places in England a nest of Antis nothing doing here at all.
There is a town here?" "Oh yes, there's a town, sir! Anyways, there's town enough to put up in. But," following the glance of the other at his luggage, "this is a very dead time of the night with us, sir. The deadest time. I might a'most call it our deadest and buriedest time." "No porters about?" "Well, sir, you see," returned Lamps, confidential again, "they in general goes off with the gas.
He could feel the tremor of her lithe body against his breast, and he moved quickly and uneasily, suspecting danger. His dreams had so long been terror-fraught that he was all nerves and suspicion. "News of what, Sally?" The whitest, deadest voice, for so simple a question; on his face the most awful strain!
If a woman forget the child she has borne and nourished, how shall she remember the father from whom she has herself come? The Lord came to heal the broken-hearted; therefore he said, 'Blessed are the mourners. Hope in God, mother, for the deadest of thy children, even for him who died in his sins. Thou mayest have long to wait for him but he will be found.
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