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The moonlight seemed to grow brighter and purer at every step, and the sleeping flowers sweeter and lovelier, and the moss greener and thicken Fairyfoot felt so happy and gay that he forgot he had ever been sad and lonely in his life. Robin Goodfellow, too, seemed to be in very good spirits.
The entire surrounding landscape presented the same aspect, with no special object upon which the eye could rest for guidance no tree, no upheaval of rock, no peculiarity of summit, no snake-like trail, all about extended the same dull, dead monotony of brown, sun-baked hills, with slightly greener depressions lying between, interspersed by patches of sand or the white gleam of alkali.
From either the Peshawur or Murree roads the effect is much finer; and from the north-east, from which direction it is perhaps seldomer seen than any other, it looks greener and more beautiful than from either of the other points. At Mutton we found our three lazy friends of the morning, encamped under the trees reading green railway-novels, and evidently very much puzzled how to kill time.
The helpful one reluctantly pressed his thumb against the wry bottom of the can, aiming the twisted spout at odd parts of the mower. "I dunno," he commented. "I don't either," said Mrs Dinkman. "You Greener, Weener whatever your name is!" There was no possibility of evasion. "Yes, mam?" "You made this stuff grow; now you can cut it down." Uncouth guffaws from the watching idiots.
And he said, 'Was that what the plumber would do to the leaky pipe? And how pleased your governor would be to find it mended. And then he went and did it." "You told me to," said Noël, turning greener and greener. "Go along with Alice," said Oswald. "We'll stand by you. And Noël, old chap, you must keep your word and not sneak about that sneaking hound."
"Holy Virgin!" she whispered, "don't lisp a word of what you heard me say, and don't ask me about it, either." They rode on side by side up the slope of the mountain. Blanka was in high spirits. The turf was silvered with hoar frost, except here and there where the direct rays of the sun had melted it and exposed the grass beneath, which looked all the greener by contrast.
That slender, gold crowned bit of a cloud that was Destiny circling her globe, weaving, and moulding, and shaping; Moira O'Donnell's own humble thread was on her loom! And Destiny's face was turned westward. Moira saw shining towers and thronged streets and fields greener than her own. Far-off music sounded in her ears as though the world off there just sang with gladness.
Feeling very much as Greener did, these Negroes rushed into Kansas and neighboring States in 1879. So many came that some systematic relief had to be offered. Mrs. Comstock, a Quaker lady, organized for this purpose the Kansas Freedmen's Relief Association, to raise funds and secure for them food and clothing. In this work she had the support of Governor J.P. Saint John.
I like to see the sudden shower coursing over the meadow, and giving all nature a greener smile; and the bright sunbeams chasing the flying cloud, and turning all its drops into diamonds. I was enjoying a morning of the kind, in company with the Squire, in one of the finest parts of the park.
I was up before dawn, and the sun rose over the shoulder of our mountain to find me a mile and more on my way down the track which led to the sea. Fett had gathered his mushrooms. It was greener than I remembered it, owing to the autumn rains. I pulled up with a start. At the foot of the meadow, where the stream ran in a curve between it and the woods, stood a man.
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