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Updated: May 17, 2025
The very year that had been so busy elsewhere, with its rushing minutes that clashed out events and changes as moving atoms clash out heat that had brought to pass all that it has taken more than a hundred pages for me to tell, that had drawn toward one centre and focus, whither, as into a great whirling maelstrom of life, so many human affairs and interests are continually drifting, the far-apart persons that were to be the persons of one little history, this same year had lifted Uncle Titus up.
The hair was golden and different, the eyes grey and different, the mouth a little fuller; yet it was her face; the same oval shape, the same far-apart, arched brows, the same strangely tender, elusive spirit. And, as though offended, he turned and walked on.
The two men were talking in easy, far-apart sentences of "tithes," and, as the subject did not interest her, she let her eyes wander about the old room, noting its oaken walls, richly carved and almost black with age, and its heavy oaken furniture, the whole brightened up with many-colored rugs, and the gleaming silver and crystal on the high sideboard, and the gay geraniums and roses in the deep bay windows.
"But but" he echoed, resting his hands on the two arms of his chair, leaning forward and still laughing, though somewhat shyly. "Don't you see the whole and sole programme is that you should do all you like, and have all you like, and and be happy." Richard straightened himself up, still looking full at her, trying to focus both these quaintly engaging, far-apart eyes.
At a touch upon her shoulder Lilly turned, spun, rather, under high tension, to encounter the well-bred hesitancy of an exceedingly slender woman, a very small head set on the stem of a long, gracile neck, something hauntingly familiar in the somewhat heart-shaped face and the far-apart eyes that were considerably younger than the white hair which framed them.
The moonlight lent mystery and indecision to her betinselled attire. The band was playing the andante for the balancing act. She found strength at last to open her lips, but still no sound came from them. She and the pastor looked at each other strangely, like spirits newly met from far-apart worlds. She, too, thought her companion changed.
A few far-apart shots the batteries fire no more; and now that the salvos are extinguished, we see the fire in the steel go out. In the abysmal silence we hear a gunner groan: "There's no more shell." The shadow of twilight resumes its place in the sky henceforward empty. It grows cold. There is a mysterious and terrible mourning.
Jusserand is always a brilliant talker so easy no pose of any kind, and Sebline was interesting, telling about all sorts of old customs in the country. Though we were so near Paris, hardly two hours by the express, the people had remained extraordinarily primitive. There were no manufacturing towns anywhere near us, nothing but big farms, forests and small far-apart villages.
They came part way afoot, receiving guidance now from some solitary fur-capped courier du bois clad in skins and hoofed with snow-shoes, now from some peaceful Indian, now from the cowled brothers of, some forest monastery which gave them a night's shelter also. Portions of the journey they made upon sledges driven by poor habitans dwelling in the far-apart villages or solitary farmhouses.
I regard it from a position toward the end of life, and you from the charming station of youth: the far-apart outlook of an old man and a young girl." "Nonsense, Guardian, you are anything but old. Nevertheless I am much disappointed with your attitude this morning. I fully expected to be complimented by you." "Doesn't my whole attitude breathe of compliment?"
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