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Updated: May 24, 2025
While the objects around me while the carvings of the ceilings, the sombre tapestries of the walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to which, or to such as which, I had been accustomed from my infancy while I hesitated not to acknowledge how familiar was all this I still wondered to find how unfamiliar were the fancies which ordinary images were stirring up.
A double iron chain, and a collar also of iron, painted black, blended with the ebon shades of her hide, and with the darkness of the cavern. The illusion was complete, and the terrible animal seemed to be at liberty in her den. "Ladies," said the marquis, suddenly, "look at those Indians. Their emotion makes them superb!"
It was a sad Korak who ranged the jungle near the plain's edge waiting for the coming of his Meriem the Meriem who never came. But there came another a tall, broad-shouldered man in khaki at the head of a swarthy crew of ebon warriors.
The roaring of the lion and tiger, mingled with the neighing of Jovial, now resounded through all parts of the inn. The panther had again thrown herself furiously on the grating, and this time yielding with one spring, she was in the middle of the shed. The light of the lantern was reflected from the glossy ebon of her hide, spotted with stains of a duller black.
It was a beautiful, bounteous, blue day! the spangled sea calm and cool, and flatly stretching away, all round, to the horizon, like gold-beater's skin hammered out to the extremest. Bobbing up and down in that sea, Pip's ebon head showed like a head of cloves. No boat-knife was lifted when he fell so rapidly astern. Stubb's inexorable back was turned upon him; and the whale was winged.
"Oh, Redbud!" cried Miss Fanny, laughing, and shaking gaily her ebon curls, "you can't think what a delightful ride I've had with Ralph, you know, who has'nt been half as disagreeable as usual " "Come," interposed Ralph, "that's too bad!" "Not for you, sir!" "Even for me." "Well, then, I'll say you are more agreeable than usual."
But the delicate woeful Oenone face, as white and gleaming under its shining coil of ebon hair, as a statue carved from the heart of Lygdos; how shall mere words ever portray its peculiar loveliness, its faultless purity?
The wind came up more freshly from the east, and Brandon knew that this wind would carry the ship which he wished to attract further and further away. That ship had now died out in the dark of the ebon sea; the chances that he could catch its notice were all against him, yet he never faltered.
And out from all these speculations, to which I do such hurried and scanty justice, he drew the blessed truth, that carries hope to the land of the Caffre, the but of the Bushman, that there is nothing in the flattened skull and the ebon aspect that rejects God's law, improvement; that by the same principle which raises the dog, the lowest of the animals in its savage state, to the highest after man viz., admixture of race you can elevate into nations of majesty and power the outcasts of humanity, now your compassion or your scorn.
And often has my mother said, While on her lap I laid my head, She feared for time I was not made, But for Eternity. So "I can read my title clear, To mansions in the skies, And let me bid farewell to fear, And wipe my weeping eyes." I'll lay me down on this marble stone, And set the world aside, To see upon her ebon throne The Moon in glory ride.
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