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Updated: May 11, 2025
The marshal, who till now had kept his visor down, slowly raised it, and revealed a face which, being once seen, could never afterwards be banished from the memory. It was a large grey-white countenance, with high cheek-bones and colourless lips, which were continually working one upon the other.
Away I followed hotly, the others giving chase and halloaing in the background. Dyke after dyke we flew headlong in the grey-white mist the space still even betwixt us then, at a sudden high dry-stone wall, which loomed up as a wave of darkness seaward, my horse jumped short, and down we fell together, on the turf beyond.
For about ten yards in front of her Zaidie saw a dense black shadow, and beyond it a stretch of grey-white sand lit up by a glare of sunlight which would have been intolerable if it had not been for the smoke-coloured slips of glass which had been fitted behind the glass visors of the helmets.
At the bottom a stone arch showed where once the Thames had lapped. Now, beyond its grey-white curve, were glimpses of green lawns and the cries of children at their play. Hillyard stopped at a house by the side of the arch. A row of brass plates confronted him, but the name of Commodore Graham was engraved on none of them. Hillyard rang the housekeeper's bell and inquired.
Oh, dear, and my father came stepping stately up the street, as he always did, and pushing past the crowd saw I don't know what he saw but old Clare said his face went grey-white with anger. He seized hold of poor Peter, tore the clothes off his back bonnet, shawl, gown, and all threw them among the crowd, and before all the people lifted up his cane and flogged Peter.
And presently the "something" a mere patch of denser black in a darkness emphasized more than relieved by the grey-white crests of breaking seas resolved itself into a large vessel, which as day broke was seen to be a frigate, like themselves under the shortest of canvas, and with all possible top-hamper down on deck.
Little Jon got up, jumped one of them, and walked round the clump of iris plants which filled the pool of grey-white marble in the centre. The flowers were pretty, but only smelled a very little. He stood in the open doorway and looked out. Suppose! suppose they didn't come!
He might have done it but for the glistening streak on the horizon, which presently crept in on them, and resolved itself into detached grey-white masses, with openings of various sizes in and out between them. The breeze was freshening, and the Selache going through it at some six knots, when Dampier came aft to Wyllard, who was standing rather grim in face at the wheel.
And once more he was alone in that hall with the pool of grey-white marble designed by her first lover. Ah! she had been a bad lot had loved two men, and not himself! He must remember that when he came face to face with her once more.
We heard no more the crackling and fizzing of the stern-wheeler's high-pressure engines at daylight, and our eyes, tired with gazing at the red whirlpools of the river, found relief in looking out upon the grey-white flat expanse which surrounded Fort Mojave, and merged itself into the desert beyond. Thou white and dried-up sea! so old! So strewn with wealth, so sown with gold!
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