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Now came Beltane to kneel beside the friar, who, opening swooning eyes, smiled and spake faint-voiced: "My lord Beltane noble son, my work on earth is ended, methinks so doth God call me hence and I do go right gladly. These dying eyes grow dim but with the deathless eyes of the soul I do see many things most plainly so, dear and valiant children, hear ye this!
Their drawling iterative speech the iterative echoes conned. The ringing blast of a horn set astir some phantom chase in the air. When the cows came lowing home, there were lowing herds in viewless company. Even if one of the children sat on a rotting log crooning a vague, fragmentary ditty, some faint-voiced spirit in the rock would sing. Lonesome Cove? home of invisible throngs!
I was conceited enough to feel sorry for the other fellows, and now I can't even feel sorry for myself. I'm just dazed and hanging to the ropes. She was mighty gentle about it you know how sunny her face is well, she just got grave and kind o' faint-voiced, and said Oh, you know what she said! She let me know there was another man.
The child walked gravely up to the desk and mounting to the high stool struck a faint-voiced bell. "There," said Kerr, "ends formality. Now let the real magic begin!" "Not black magic," Flora took up his fancy. He had drawn out a chair for her. "That depends on you. I'm not the magic maker. I have no talisman." She felt the conscious jewel burn in her possession.
"O content you," quoth Beltane, stooping to loose off his spurs, "our foes were lost hours since, nor shall any find us here in the wild, methinks pray you, loose me this buckle. Come, list how the waters do woo us with their pretty babble." "But, messire," quoth Fidelis, faint-voiced, and fumbling awkwardly with the buckle, "indeed I I have no art in swimming." "Then will I teach thee."
Through all the wear and tear of time the remembrance of that voyage has at intervals haunted him: the length of it, the weariness of it, and the almost unbroken monotony stretching through the ninety odd days that dawned and darkened between San Francisco and New York; the solitary sail that was blown on and on, and becalmed and buffeted between the blue waste of waters and the blue waste of sky; the lonesomeness of it all no land, no lights flashing across the sea in glad assurance; no passing ships to hail us with faint-voiced "Ahoy!" only the ever-tossing waves, the trailing sea-gardens, the tireless birds of the air and the monsters of the deep.
And ever and always Beltane lies deep-plunged in slumber; but in his sleep he groans full oft and oft doth call upon a name a cry faint-voiced and weak, yet full of a passionate yearning; whereupon cometh sturdy Roger to behold him in the light of the fire, to stoop and soothe him with gentle hand; thus needs must he mark the glitter of a tear upon that pale and sunken cheek, wherefore Black Roger's own eyes must needs fall a-smarting and he to grieving amain.
Slow and stiffly Duke Beltane dismounted, and reeling in his gait, came and knelt beside Black Ivo and loosed off his riven helm. Thereafter, slow and painfully, he arose, and looking round upon all men, spake faint-voiced.
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