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Updated: June 6, 2025
It was a good mile to her home, but the boy knew what it meant to forget the water-jug on a day like this. When he returned half an hour later the sunshine had changed character and there was a peculiar dimming of its brilliancy. "Is it going to rain?" the girl asked as she lowered the jug to her knee. She wiped her lips on the skirt of the faded sunbonnet she wore and looked up again. "Rain!"
He tried to back to the wall; made it; then a heavy thump suggested to his dimming mind that he had collapsed to the deck. He was asleep at once.... Soil Hawk Carse awoke with a slight feeling of nausea, and the smell of the drug faint in his nostrils.
Raising her eyes, she met his and said, with a little mocking air, "Well, Mr. Faraday, and what do you think of that?" "That your mother seems to have been right," said Faraday, steadily eyeing her. An expression of chagrin and disappointment, rapid but unmistakable, crossed her face, dimming its radiance like a breath on a mirror.
The silence broke to a clear call from an incoming rider, and, almost like the peal of a hunting-horn, floated back the answer. The outgoing riders moved swiftly, came sharply into sight as they topped a ridge to show wild and black above the horizon, and then passed down, dimming into the purple of the sage. "I hope they don't meet Lassiter," said Jane. "So do I," replied Venters.
And everybody knows more about this affair than you or I, don't they?" "I don't know," drawled Little, and without another word he pulled his hat over his eyes, snuggled down, and gave Barry his answer in the shape of a soft, prolonged snore. The moon sailed overhead and dipped with dimming luster behind a ridge of jungle giants whose upper branches were waking into life.
Hamlin had to smile at the array, but Molly handled each article almost with reverence, tears dimming her eyes in memory. "He he bought these for me," she said softly, and looking across reproachfully at the Sergeant. "It was the best he could do." "I was not laughing at poor Moylan; only, I fear, he had a wrong conception of a girl's needs on the trail.
For a full minute they sat thus looking at each other through the fast dimming light, like two prize-fighters meeting for the first time within the ring, and taking mental stock before beginning their physical argument. Hampton, with a touch of his old audacity of manner, was first to break the silence. "So you think I am a damned fool.
Gradually a grayness absorbed all but the larger stars. The great white morning star, wonderful as Helen had never seen it, lost its brilliance and life and seemed to retreat into the dimming blue. Daylight came gradually, so that the gray desert became distinguishable by degrees.
There, too, were shapes of men and women hurrying home, and the great blocked shapes of the houses where they lived. A halo hovered above the City a high haze of yellow light, dimming the stars. The black, slow figure of a policeman moved noiselessly along the railings opposite. With a jerk, Hilary came back to his reflections beneath the bust of Socrates.
All were away in the fields and the forest; and, though little of their emotion transpired on their canvases, they were moved, as were Rousseau and Millet, by the grandeur of the blasted oak and the lonely byre standing against the long forest fringes, dimming in the violet twilight. Elsie was delighted with her birch, and Cissy considered her rocks approvingly.
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