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Updated: May 4, 2025
Wilson in the old rocking-chair, with one sick death-like boy lying on her knee, crying without let or pause, but softly, gently, as fearing to disturb the troubled, gasping child; while behind her, old Alice let her fast-dropping tears fall down on the dead body of the other twin, which she was laying out on a board placed on a sort of sofa-settee in a corner of the room.
Alice first broke silence; holding her tea-cup with the manner of one proposing a toast, she said, "Here's to absent friends. Friends may meet, but mountains never." It was an unlucky toast or sentiment, as she instantly felt. Every one thought of Esther, the absent Esther; and Mrs. Barton put down her food, and could not hide the fast-dropping tears. Alice could have bitten her tongue out.
She reads it with surprise, and looks down with a new expression and an added interest on the motionless face she kneels beside. 'I know these names. I have heard them often. 'Will you send it, my dear? 'I cannot understand you. Let me wet your lips again, and your forehead. There. O poor thing, poor thing! These words through her fast-dropping tears. 'What was it that you asked me?
If you succeed in getting the ball out of her reach, it is almost certain to be a winning shot, because she will not have time to turn and go after what is a very fast-dropping ball. The lob-volley is one of the prettiest strokes and a most effective one.
The day's work lay on the rifle range or in practising trench-to-trench attacks. There was no enemy artillery-fire to disturb the calmness, and each day gave the same opalescent eastern sky at dawn and the same fast-dropping sun falling below the sea at night.
Heavens! what a light!" Winnington turned to see the glow of a lovely afternoon fusing all the hill-side in a glory of gold and amethyst, and the windows in the long front of Monk Lawrence taking fire under the last rays of a fast-dropping sun. "Do you know I sometimes feel anxious about that house!" said Madeleine Tonbridge, abruptly.
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