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Updated: May 14, 2025
He rubbed his eyes sharply, drew a few long breaths to steady his heart, turned his back doggedly on the shining terror, and set forward swiftly for the farm-house, now in full view not three hundred yards away. For all the windless down-streaming summer sunshine, there was that in Reuben's drenched clothes which chilled him to the heart.
Ellen felt that which life meant with its inscrutable design. Love was only the realization of her mission on the earth. The dark storm cloud with its white, ragged ropes of lightning and down-streaming gray veils of rain, the purple gulf rolling like a colored sea to the dim mountains, the glorious golden light of the sun these had enchanted her eyes with her beauty of the universe.
The friar's gown could not disguise the form beneath; the friar's sleeve, backfallen from the arm which held on high the branching lights, disclosed deep scars.... Down-streaming light, the hour, the stillness a soul unsteadfast would have shrunk as from an apparition. Nevil stood his ground, the table between him and his guest of three years' burial from English ken.
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