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Updated: June 23, 2025
It was two stories high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower story and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence. The door, which was equipped with neither bell nor knocker, was blistered and distained. Tramps slouched into the recess and struck matches on
Even in the more suggestive solitude of the country, one cannot but contrast the few hillocks here and there carefully weeded, and their trained and tended rose-bushes, with the many more neglected and sunken, whose distained stones the brier-tangle half conceals, and whose forget-me-nots have long since died for want of water.
Are they women? to Turkish serails let them speed, And be mothers of Mussulmen slaves! Abettors of massacre! dare ye deplore That the death-shriek is silenced on Hellas' shore? That the mother aghast sees her offspring no more By the hand of Infanticide grasped? And that stretched on yon billows distained by their gore Missolonghi's assassins have gasped?
The weather was cold, the livid damps hung upon the distained walls, and there was neither fire nor hearth; but thinly clad as she was her cloak and shawl her principal covering she did not feel the cold, for her heart was more chilly than the airs of heaven.
She tumbled them forth on the distained green cloth of the bureau she began to count them; and at that moment, the old man, as if there were a secret magnetism between himself and the guineas, woke from his trance. His blindness saved him the pain that might have been fatal, of seeing the unhallowed profanation; but he heard the chink of the metal. The very sound restored his strength.
White reads, "I live distained, thou one dishonored." But we cannot help thinking that the true reading should be, "I live distained, though undishonored," which is a less forced construction, and coincides with the rest of the passage, "I am contaminate through thee, though in myself immaculate."
The detective shrugs his shoulders, and having thanked the woman, withdraws into the passage, to the end of which he cautiously picks his way, and knocks at a distained door that fronts him.
"Then, glaring on his father with wild eyes, The son stood dumb, and spat upon his face, And clutched the unnatural sword the father fled, And, wroth, as with the arm that missed a parent, The wretched man drove home unto his breast The abhorrent steel; yet ever, while dim sense Struggled within the fast-expiring soul Feebler, and feebler still, his stiffening arms Clung to that virgin form and every gasp Of his last breath with bloody dews distained The cold white cheek that was his pillow.
And therefore I suppose she shall not be all distained, but that some good knight shall put his body in jeopardy for my queen rather than she shall be brent in a wrong quarrel.
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