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As he sat opposite me on the sea-chest and ate mechanically of the broken bits of biscuits, I observed him closely, and it seemed that he had aged twenty years in the last few hours. His hair seemed whiter, his face grayer, the lines in his cheeks and forehead deeper, and his chin and jaw had lost their firm set which proved him a commander of men.
He was mud to the knees, his clothing was torn, he was mud to the elbows from having tripped last night and fallen in a quagmire, his face was white and drawn and grimy as the face of a London cabrunner, his hair was grayer and dull, but his eyes were bright and he was happy.
They had, in the meantime, been mounting a rising ground, clothed with stunted wood, and came out on a wide heath, brown with dead bracken; a hollow, traced by the tops of leafless trees, marked the course of the stream that traversed it, and the inequalities of ground becoming more rugged in outlines and grayer in colouring as they receded, till they were closed by a dark fir wood, beyond which rose in extreme distance the grand mass of Welsh mountain heads, purpled against the evening sky, except where the crowning peaks bore a veil of snow.
For a long time, and for a tremendous distance as it seemed to Bobby they crept along through the lagoons and channels of the marshes. The dawn had not come yet, but the air was getting grayer in anticipation of it, and the wind began to blow faintly from the direction of the Lake. Bobby could see the shapes of the grasses and cat-tails, and make out the bodies of water through which they passed.
It was first made manifest by the rapid appearance of a thin gray cloud along the horizon, which seemed to take in both sea and sky, and absorbed into itself the outlines of both. At the same time, the coast of Nova Scotia grew more obscure, though it lost none of its magnified proportions, while the slaty blue of Ile Haute changed to a grayer shade.
It could be turned on in all its broad robust humour "Fooliana!" Or refined away into a playful or delicate suggestion, pointed with an uplifted finger "Fooli!" Or cut down and compressed into its essential meaning "Fool!" But whichever missile came handy, the effect was much the same. Juliana's complexion grew redder or grayer, but her state of mind remained unchanged.
Now, then, if you turn up the lamp, so that I can see the whole blaze, maybe I can help those two in yonder." Keziah considered. "All right, doctor," she said, when she reached a decision, "all right; I'll tell you the whole thing, and you can see one of the reasons why my hair is gettin' grayer. This thing has reached the point now where there's no keepin' it quiet.
A hand was laid upon his shoulder, and a husky, broken voice said, "Here is one reason." He started up, and saw that his aunt stood beside him. The dawn was gray, but the face of the aged woman was grayer and more pallid. She did not entreat her feeling seemed too deep for words but with clasped hands she lifted her tear-dimmed eyes to his.
"Why not?" "Because you are a man." "You women are peculiar creatures." "An old idea always patly expressed," she replied. "But isn't it true?" "It must be, or it wouldn't have lived so long," she answered. "A pleasing sentiment," he replied, "but old age is not a mark of truth, for nothing is grayer than falsehood." "But it finally dies, and truth lives on," she rejoined.
March is as brisk and cheery, though rather grayer, than when we saw her last, and just now so absorbed in Meg's affairs that the hospitals and homes still full of wounded 'boys' and soldiers' widows, decidedly miss the motherly missionary's visits. John Brooke did his duty manfully for a year, got wounded, was sent home, and not allowed to return.
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