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Updated: June 14, 2025
As he stood looking at her facing him thus in cold half-shadowy anger at the spinning wheel with its trailing flax at, the table with its iron shears at her hands stretched forth as if about to grasp the one and to lay hold on the other he shudderingly thought of the ancient arbitress of Life and Death Fate the mighty, the relentless.
It must be confessed that Clitheroe had enjoyed himself in the society of these old comrades you would recognize most of them were he to name them; but tonight, or rather this early morning he had begun to moralize, as he peered down the transom upon the half-shadowy forms of those feasters who had fallen by the way.
Had I been of the fraternity of artists, as I had claimed, I should have asked no better fate than to come there with canvas and brushes and immortalize the quiet beauty of the scene. A rustic bridge invited me, and I stood and smoked upon it, listening to the ripple of the half-golden, half-shadowy water, watching the revolutions of the green old wheel. I had laid out my plan of action.
Behind the city, rather to the north, lay the Mount of Olives, and the long, straight lines of the Moab Mountains beyond the Dead Sea, stretching from horizon to horizon, half-shadowy and veiled in mist, through which they shone rosy in the evening's sunlight." We have no space for further descriptions, excellent as they are.
It was a new world; Jeanne the one connecting link between the present and that still half-shadowy past from which he had been cast by some unceremonial jest of Fate into a strange existence. From the witless, nameless unit of a whaler's crew he had at last arisen to a fresh identity. Frank Starbird, they christened him, he knew not why.
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