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All through this farce which was in truth the grimmest of all tragedies my lady played her part as one who walks in sleep; and at the end she let her father lead her out with not a word or look or sign to me. You'd guess that I would take it hard her leaving of me thus, as I made sure, for all eternity; and I did take it hard.
That was the grimmest jest of all, for at the mere thought of Barbara's lips unruly forces took possession of him; he experienced a fierce, resistless vigor such as he had never felt in his younger days. It was a dreadful, an unappeasable yearning of soul and body, and when the paroxysm had passed, it left him weak.
"Verily," he said, "it is as I deemed, but with more reason for the collier to fly than I had thought for truly mail-clad men are never seen here, and thy face, my son, is of the grimmest, for all you are so young. I marvel Turkil feared you not but children see below the outward mask of a man's face."
I stripped and dived far into its cold abysses, but I did not reach the bottom. I came to the surface rather breathless, and struck out to sea, where I floated on my back and looked at the great rampart of crag. I saw that the place where I had spent the night was only a little oasis of green at the base of one of the grimmest corries the imagination could picture. It was as desert as Damaraland.
A bed was hastily improvised for him in the room next to my own. I doubt if his night was more restful than mine. I could only get to sleep in the small hours, when daylight was already strong, and then my dreams were of the grimmest particularly one which stamped itself on my brain, and which I must set down on the chance of dispersing the impression it has made.
"I am glad to have been of service," said the other, looking his grimmest. He acknowledged the young man's farewell with a short nod and, forgetting his sudden desire for music, continued to pace up and down with his daughter. "What have you been saying to that that fellow?" he demanded, turning to her, suddenly. Miss Nugent reflected. "I said it was a fine evening," she replied, at last.
She made full confession of her crimes; but no torture could wring from her the name of the man for love of whom she had committed them, and of whose treachery to her she was ignorant. She was sentenced to death; and one March day, in the year 1719, she was led to the scaffold "in a white silk gown trimmed with black ribbons." Then followed one of the grimmest scenes recorded in history.
"My errand," the man said in a silken tone that gloved grimmest menace, "is much the same as yours quite naturally but more fortunate; for I shall get not only what I came for, but something more." "What ?" "The opportunity to plead with you, face to face. I think you will hardly refuse to listen to me now." "How how did you get in?" "Oh, secretly!
Speculators piled gold on his door-step, and he laughed at them. Sometimes he was hungry, but he laughed none the less. "Get thee behind me, Satan!" said the old priest's smile. Père Antoine was very old now, scarcely able to walk; but he could sit under the pliant, caressing leaves of his tree, and there he sat until the grimmest of speculators came to him.
"To me nothing seems more natural than that the Son of Man, when such God-given mandate first prophetically stirs within him, and the Clay must now be vanquished or vanquish, should be carried of the spirit into grim Solitudes, and there fronting the Tempter do grimmest battle with him; defiantly setting him at naught till he yield and fly.
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