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Updated: June 12, 2025
He must have collected all the roses about it, and thrown the incense upon the embers when Gertrude suddenly entered. And then, and then... We found her lying across the altar, her pale hair among the ashes of the incense, her blood she had but little to give, poor white ghost! trickling among the carved garlands and rams' heads, blackening the heaped-up roses.
The twilight fell over Crow Nest, and over the river and the heaped-up mountains that lie about West Point, and in the quiet room the boy's mother sat perplexed, uncertain, his letter in her hands; yet with a vague sense of coming comfort in her heart as she thought of the girl who would surely "find her and be good to her," But across the water, on the hillside, the boy lay quiet.
One or two rickety chairs and a rough deal table showed vaguely in the gloom, and in the far corner of the room there lay a bundle of what looked like heaped-up rags, but from which there now emerged the sound of heavy breathing and also a little cry of fear. "Yvonne," came in feeble, querulous accents from that same bundle of wretchedness, "are these the English milors come back at last?"
Small black-haired men issued from among the heaped-up wares like mice in a granary. I was surrounded I was beseeched and entreated I was made to sit down while piece after piece of antiquity and art were unrolled at my feet. At each unrolling the tallest of the black men would spread his hands and look at me. "A painting, a painting, a masterpiece.
It had nearly reached the cliff's foot in most places; but Mick presently came to a point where he looked down on a small field of very green grass, set as an oasis between the waves and the walling rock, with a miniature chaos of heaped-up boulders to left and right.
With a laughing salutation, however, Pierre followed her into the blaze of firelight which poured from the heaped-up hearth. In spite of his disguise he was at once recognized by the man of the house as an Acadian, and the wanderers found an instant and hearty welcome. "We shall have to keep you hidden till we get you away!" said the villager, one Jean Breboeuf by name.
She was in curious contrast to the Queen, who sat upon heaped-up cushions, her rich buff and black gown a blaze of jewels, her yellow hair, now streaked with grey, roped with pearls, her hands heavy with rings, her face past its youth, past its hopefulness, however noble and impressive, past its vivid beauty.
She was in curious contrast to the Queen, who sat upon heaped-up cushions, her rich buff and black gown a blaze of jewels, her yellow hair, now streaked with grey, roped with pearls, her hands heavy with rings, her face past its youth, past its hopefulness, however noble and impressive, past its vivid beauty.
Jeorling,” said Captain Len Guy, “do you observe a promontory in the direction of the north-east?” “I observe it, captain.” “Is it not formed of heaped-up rocks which look like giant bales of cotton?” “That is so, and just what the narrative describes.” “Then all we have to do is to land on the promontory, Mr. leoding.
Hardly, however, had they swallowed a couple of mouthfuls, before they all fell down dead, for the raven had communicated to them the poison from the horse-flesh. There was no no one else left in the house but the innkeeper's daughter, who was honest, and had taken no part in their godless deeds. She opened all doors to the stranger and showed him the heaped-up treasures.
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