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He had delayed his return, and there had been none of his brief communications. She wrote, as she knew, as she felt, coldly. She was guided by others, and her name was up before the world, owing to some half-remembered impulsion of past wishes, but her heart was numbed; she was not a woman to have a wish without a beat of the heart in it.
The traveller, who met Edward reeling by the roadside, was sometimes startled to hear the fragments of classical lore, or wild bursts of half-remembered poetry, mixing strangely with the imbecile merriment of intoxication. But when he stopped to gaze, there was no further mark on his face or in his eye by which he could be distinguished from the loathsome and lowest drunkard.
Miss Theodosia involuntarily closed her eyes to shut out a sight of horror. "Mercy gracious!" She opened them hurriedly at the soft collision of herself with Evangeline. "Who is it? Is it the baby? I've sent for the doctor." Half-remembered, half-read first aids crowded her mind confusedly. Warm water and mustard that was for hemorrhage no, no poison! But did you apply it inside or out?
And while he was in good shape, he was nowhere near as muscular as the beings around him. They made him feel out of place in a half-remembered way, almost like . . . what? Yes, that was it. Like a kid. Well, that didn't really matter. Rangers weren't picked for their bodies.
If you had raised the sheet, you would have seen no happy smile as of a half-remembered, innocent childhood; the smile is it of peaceful memory or serene anticipation? that sometimes shines on the faces of the dead. Such life-secrets as were exposed by Death, and written on that still countenance in characters that all might read, were painful ones. Flossy Morrison was dead.
The distant, forest-crowned uplands, seen dimly in the direction toward which the ark floated, looked as unsubstantial as clouds. A delightful, spicy fragrance exhaled from the blossomy thickets which fringed the river margin. Burr took a deep breath, and began to hum a half-remembered verse advising youth to "gather the rose whiles yet is prime."
And look farther on into the distant future, when the tiny boots shall have long been cast aside, and the flowing silks shall have sunken into inexpansive, sober gray, when the early joys and the early sorrows shall fade into the dim, half-remembered past, when time shall have blanched the curly locks which first caught your girlish fancy, and lined the fair brow you once kissed in its manly beauty, when the bloom of your own youth shall have passed away, and, in its stead, you see the faded remnants of your queenly prime, when round you gather the fair youths and maidens who are living over the joys and sorrows which once moved your tired heart, and which you then shall look upon with that sad philosophy which tells you that the day has come when earthly interests can never sway you more, will you not then have a partner who will share the memories of the past, and, heart to heart, will tread with you the slow decline, and win the prize outranking all, eternal peace?
In this state Catharine woke on a September morning and felt beside her a presence that held her breathless. The half-remembered images and thoughts of sleep pursued her became what we call "real." "Robert!" she said, aloud very low. And without voice, it seemed to her that some one replied. A dialogue began into which she threw her soul.
She looked at the subdolous, pale-green eyes, with their predatory restlessness, at the square-blocked, flaccid jaw, and the beefy, animal-like massiveness of the strong neck, at the huge form odorous of gin and cigar smoke, and the great, hairy hands marked with their purplish veinings. It seemed like a ghost out of some long-past and only half-remembered life.
It needs interchange of books, meals together, discussion of one another's whims with mutual friends, to gain a proper perspective. It is set in a rich haze of half-remembered occasions, sudden glimpses, ludicrous pranks, unsuspected observations, midnight confidences when heart spoke to candid heart. The soul preaches humility to itself when it realizes, startled, that it has won a new friend.
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