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Updated: May 4, 2025
“Glory to Sparta.” Then in the red morning half-light, folding his big hands across his mailed chest, Leonidas looked from one to another of the little circle. His voice was still in unemotional gutturals when he delivered the longest speech of his life. “We of Sparta were ordered to defend this pass. The order shall be obeyed.
A drearier sight is hard to find than our valley when the chill of the November evening is creeping over it as the fire in the west goes out. Night covers it, and it sleeps. But the winter twilight raises up its shadows. In the darkness all is hidden. In the half-light there is utter loneliness. I turned from the window to the letter, and Mary looked at me for the first time in many minutes.
In the strange and gloomy half-light that filled the tent these survivors of the Freja looked less like men than beasts. Their hair and beards were long, and seemed one with the fur covering of their bodies. Their faces were absolutely black with dirt, and their limbs were monstrously distended and fat fat as things bloated and swollen are fat.
Undoubtedly she was still a very good-looking woman, though past the hey-day of her youth and beauty. The half-light caused by the depth of the window embrasure, and the smallness of the glass panes through which the summer sun hardly succeeded in gaining admittance, added a certain softness to her chiseled features, and to the usually hard expression of her large dark eyes.
As the Master held it up in the sand-lashed dimness, half-gloom and half-light, that formed a kind of aura round the fire an aura sheeted through and all about by the aerial avalanches of the sand the Legionaries got some vague idea of the necklace. Three black pearls and two white were strung on a fine chain of gold. A gap in their succession told where the missing pearl formerly had been.
At least, it was so that Rouletabille believed he saw the mysterious struggle go in the half-light, amid most impressive silence, after that frightened cry of Natacha's. The whole affair had lasted only a few seconds, and the man was still hanging over the balcony, when from the bottom of the hall a new person sprang. It was Matrena Petrovna.
This, with the jolting, the queer effect of the half-light in the rickety interior, together with the expression of the good people, who evidently could see no fun in rain, excited my risibility so strongly that I indulged in a smothered laugh, tempered to fit the publicity of the occasion. "'You must not laugh in France, whispered Nan, pulling my dress.
But seated in the half-light of the diningroom, sitting stiffly before the shaded candles on the table, she seemed a power, a presence. She listened and attended with a drugged attention. The party was gay and extravagant in appearance, everybody had put on evening dress except Birkin and Joshua Mattheson.
In the shadow I could just distinguish on the pillow a dark-bearded face whose appearance was certainly not prepossessing. "You are not well?" I said, inquiringly, as our eyes met in the dim half-light. "Your daughter is distressed about you." "Yes, I'm a bit queer," he growled. "But she needn't have bothered you."
Many of the blinds were closed, but down at the far end where her picture hung there was some light, and with an impulsive desire to look at this picture, with a view to the impression that it might make on Horace when he should see it, she glided noiselessly down the room toward it. The full-length portraits to right and left of her loomed vaguely through the half-light.
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