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Updated: May 13, 2025
As soon as he had passed the screen made by the shrubs on the lawn, he saw it all as he had seen it in his waking dream on the common the lamp-light, the open windows, the white muslin curtains swaying a little in the soft evening air, and Catherine's figure seen dimly through them. The noise of the gate, however of the steps on the drive had startled her.
Nothing, in this scorching, desolate land could look so refreshing as this pure water flashing in the lamp-light; nothing could look so beautiful, nothing could sound so delicious as this mimic rain to ears long unaccustomed to sounds of such a nature. Our rooms were large, comfortably furnished, and even had their floors clothed with soft, cheerful-tinted carpets.
The lamp-light was soft, the fire crackled pleasantly, everything that surrounded him betrayed a woman's taste and touch; the place was decorated and cushioned in perfection, delightfully private and personal, the picture of a well-appointed home. Mrs.
Then he went home, got some charcoal and paper and by lamp-light began to draw the face which he had seen a very young and still plastic face, with delicate lips open above the small teeth; and eyes why, they were Phoebe's eyes, of course! no other eyes like them in the world. He drew them with an eager hand, knowing the way of them.
I remember then how they mustered in the bailey, even as they do now, and my lady-mother holding me in her arms at this very window that I might see the show." "Please God, you will see them all back ere another year be out," said he. She shook her head, looking round at him with flushed cheeks and eyes that sparkled in the lamp-light.
The room was full of the blue wreaths of smoke, and the lamp-light shone through the thin haze upon gold-topped bottles, plates, napkins, and a litter of oyster shells and cigarettes.
Everybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to have been competent judges, because they had just had dinner; and, with the dessert upon the table, were clustered round the fire, by lamp-light. "Well! I am very glad to hear it," said Scrooge's nephew, "because I haven't any great faith in these young housekeepers. What do you say, Topper?"
But the sight of some of his comrades resorting for solace to their rations decided him, and he shared with them the contents of his haversack. The train reached Fall River at nine o'clock, and the passengers were transferred to the steamer "Metropolis." The boat was soon swarming with soldiers, stacking their arms, and hurrying this way and that in the lamp-light.
Pollux now used his fingers and modelling tools more calmly; his gaze was less wistful and he began to talk again. "You are very pale," he said. "To be sure the lamp-light and a sleepless night have something to do with it." "I look just the same by daylight, but I am not ill." "I thought Arsinoe would have been like your mother, but now I see many features of her face in yours again.
And many of them were really quite valuable as decoration, because of their fine old coats of gilded leather; and such were ranged in the more penetrable shadows or even in the lamp-light. Theophilus would point to them as to a portrait-gallery of dead ancestors.
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