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Updated: June 29, 2025
Under an archway near by an important personage in white muslin, mounted on a handsome mule and surrounded by his attendants, sat with motionless face and narrowed eyes gravely following the movements of the dancers. Suddenly, as we stood watching the extraordinary animation of the scene, a reddish light overspread it, and one of our companions exclaimed: "Ah a dust-storm!"
But how they came thither is a question not so easily answered; since the same halting-place shows no track of either horse or man leading towards it! Odd all this might appear, indeed inexplicable, to one unacquainted with the nature of a dust-storm, or unaware of the incidents which have preceded.
Where was he with her? what were his real, tangible hopes and fears? Life and death depended for him on these days these few vanishing days. And he was like one of the last year's leaves before him, whirled helpless and will-less in the dust-storm of the road! He had sat there an unnoticed time when the sound of some heavy carriage approaching roused him.
Like a mushroom it had arisen, and like a dust-storm on the desert wind it had roared away, bearing its freight of labor, of passion, and of evil. Benton had become a name a fabulous name. But nature seemed more merciful than life. For it began to hide what man had left the scars of habitations where hell had held high carnival. Sunset came, then night and the starlight.
He already had a cellar-door and a chicken coop which did not belong to him, while a "wash" he did not recognize was lodged in his woodpile of jack-pine and ground-cedar in the backyard. The Homeseekers' Excursion arrived at last hours late delayed by the worst dust-storm in months. The committee of prominent citizens met it where the cinder platform had been before it blew off.
A dense dust-storm sprung up outside, and swept roaring over the house, enveloping it in the choking darkness of midnight, but Mottram continued unheeding, and the crazy tinkle reached the ears of the listeners above the flapping of the tattered ceiling-cloth.
A man who is perfectly at himself does not throw cold detraction at people's architectural productions and picturesque surroundings, and let on that what he prefers is a Dubbonese dust-storm and a pleasing degree of respectful familiarity. No, these are old, old symptoms; and when they appear we know that the man has got the panegyrics. Sydney has a population of 400,000.
On the 18th, the morning commenced with a dust-storm, the horizon was about 20 yards off, and ashy white with clouds of sand; the trees were scarcely visible, and everything in my boat was covered with a fine coat of impalpable powder, collected from the boundless alluvial plains through which the Ganges flows.
Knowing that this effect portended a dust-storm, and that the present calm would be followed by a hurricane of wind, I rose to go home, intending to secure the shutters. Hardly had I risen, when I saw approaching, from the S.W. apparently, a solid range of immense brown mountains, high in air.
She regarded him thoughtfully, and when he returned at one o'clock to dinner, and encountered instead a violent dust-storm which was raging in the house, she noted with pleasure that his sense of humor was more under control. "Dinner?" she said, as he strove to squeeze past the furniture which was piled in the hall.
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