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We were sorry to say good-bye, he was lonely, and we liked him; but we lost no time, as we were seven hours from Podgoritza and goodness knows how far from Cettinje. The carriage and coachman were the same as yesterday's, but his expression was so lugubrious in the downpouring rain that he looked another man. Just outside the village he picked up a friend and put her in the carriage.
Even so far as from the cab to the door they were powdered thickly with the big flakes downpouring diagonally from the east. Old Jerome growled good-naturedly about villainous cab service and blockaded streets. Nevada, colored like a rose, with sapphire eyes, babbled of the stormy nights in the mountains around dad's cabin.
It is true," and then, hurrying out the words like the downpouring of the mountain torrent, she continued, "Do you love me? do you love me? do you love me?" "I do, Josephine I do distractedly! But stern honour stands in the way."
She turned and ran back, with head bent beneath the downpouring rain, light-hearted, to her home, not knowing, never guessing that on that handsome, smiling, healthy face of her young husband she had looked her last.
The water was like black glass, the outer reefs were silent, and the downpouring air from the mountains was fragrant with moso'oi, and so warm and scented against the cheek that I doubt not but what you could have smelled Upolu ninety miles to leeward. However, I did not allow these reflections to put me off my duty or make me forgetful of the strict commands I had previously received from Sasa.
At that hour a downpouring, soft light from the second-story windows bathed the big canvas. Against the darker background of the hall the painting stood out with valuable effect. In spite of the defects of the art you could almost fancy that you gazed out upon a landscape. You might well flinch a step from the convincing figure of the life-size steer stampeding across the grass.
They end in rain such rain as I had never seen before, a vehement, a frantic downpouring of water, but our first slow passage through the channels behind Mordet's Island was in incandescent sunshine.
Blind adherence to forms and imitations of ancestral beliefs deprived them of their messianic bounty. They were not refreshed by the downpouring rain of mercy, nor were they illumined by the rays of the Sun of Truth.
There came a gust of chill wet wind that made all the curtains flutter and there was a comfortless noise of cataracts of rain downpouring from the over-loaded gutters on to marble balconies. Then the emperor's voice again: "Is that you, Marcia? You leave your Commodus to die of thirst! I parch I have a fever bring my wine-cup!" "At once, Commodus." She glanced at the golden cup on an onyx table.
You must remember it, Leonard." "But this deluge isn't over," was the reply. "It seems a tremendous reaction from the drought, and where it will end it is hard to tell, unless this steady downpouring slackens soon." Leonard's fears were not realized, however.
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