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Updated: May 17, 2025
First from one boat, then another, that weird, strange melody drifted through the dark air. It blended into a spectral chorus, a vague, tremulous, eerie chant, ghostlike and awful, as though on the black stream of Acheron the lost souls of a better world had joined in song.
He was out of harmony with the glad living colors around him, ghostlike amid the brightness of the flowering earth and the deep-dyed heaven. He met his daughter's eyes and smiled. "Your prisoner has escaped you, Missy." She tried to control herself, to beat down the surge of anger that shook her. Meeting him she implored with low-toned urgence: "Father, you can't do it. Go back. You're too sick."
Only at night would they sometimes dream queer dreams in which wild-eyed men went around smashing everything in sight and a little cottage stood lonely and desolate and ghostlike amid a silent forest of trees. After a night like this the girls were always glad to awake and find the sunshine streaming cheerfully in their windows.
It was as if nature had stood still here for twelve long summers, or as if he were walking, ghostlike, amid the ever present memories of his mother's heart. His mother! He drew his sleeve across his eyes and went on more slowly.
That wretched consumptive, Rateau, was with them, and made a facetious remark as Kennard, pale and haggard, almost ghostlike, with a white bandage round his head, appeared upon the landing. "Go back to bed, citizen," the odious creature said, with a raucous laugh. "We are taking care of your sweetheart for you."
The family, consisting of females, including the overseer's wife, who had come for protection, quietly collected in the sitting-room, where a tallow candle, placed not to attract attention from outside, shed a dim light over my ghostlike companions clad in their night-dresses.
Angela turned away; and Mrs. Gaylor, who had brought her guest as far as the beginning of the bamboo grove; stood watching the white figure flit farther and farther away, among the intricate green pillars of the temple. Then, when the elusive form became ghostlike in the distance, Carmen went back to the house.
"It's only when Carl plays like that that I grow afraid." Aunt Agatha went to bed to listen tremblingly while the dare-devil dance of the flute tripped ghostlike through the corridors.
"Jump in, boys," she invited in afterthought. "I may as well drive you down to your rooms and drop you first. I need a breath of air to quiet my nerves." Out of the garish color and clangor of Broadway, we swept into the tempered quiet of Fifth Avenue, stretching ghostlike between the twin threads of electric opals. "We must both be pretty tired," he suggested when Washington Arch loomed ahead.
Good night, or, as my ancestors don't forget, MY ANCESTORS used to say: 'Buena noche hasta manana!" She lingered over the Spanish syllables with an imitation of Dona Anna's lisp, and with another smile, but more faint and more ghostlike than before; vanished with her companion. At eight o'clock the next morning Paul was standing beside his portmanteau on the veranda.
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