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Thou glidest, now, into a graver air; an air devoted to old friends and bygone times; and in thy lingering touch upon the keys, and the rich swelling of the mellow harmony, they rise before thee.
"Dost thou not?" said Blunt. "By'r Lady, thou'lt have cause to fear me ere I am through with thee." He smiled a baleful, lingering smile, and then turned slowly and walked away. "What thinkest thou, Myles?" said Gascoyne, as the two left the armory together. "I think naught," said Myles gruffly. "He will not dare to touch me to harm me. I fear him not."
"You think that I, also, weigh true love by the weight of the purse," he said. "I do not care overmuch for your gold, Evelyn." She did not answer at once, but stood with her head slightly bent, fingering the waxen flowers with a delicate, lingering touch. Now that there was no longer the noise of the wheels and the horses' hoofs, the forest stillness, which is composed of sound, made itself felt.
And through the trees, where their rugged trunks made an open vista, he saw not two hundred yards away the gay spot of color made by the blue cloak. So she was still here, lingering down the road that wound about the lake's shores, when already he had fancied her far on her way. He wondered for the first time where that way led? He drew rein among the pines, waiting in his turn for her to go on.
People are always more or less out of sorts after a ball, and a day spent in the open air soothes the feverish and braces up the limp. Wherefore the rectory gave a picnic to blow away the lingering vapors of last evening at the Hill, and the place of meeting chosen was Dunaston Castle. Leam had of course been invited with the rest.
But of love Maltravers still forbore to speak; they were friends, no more; such friends as the disparity of their years and their experience might warrant them to be. And in that young and innocent nature with its rectitude, its enthusiasm, and its pious and cheerful tendencies Maltravers found freshness in the desert, as the camel-driver lingering at the well.
Expecting this with confidence, I did not think it necessary to write again. But, as so long a time has elapsed, I begin to fear that you have not received my letter, and so I write again. Oh, my father! if you should not be already on your way to my relief if you should be still lingering at home on the receipt of this letter, fly to me at once!
Tonight, however, the familiar spell seemed to have lost its force. After a hasty supper he took up some proofs, pen in hand. But the first page was hardly turned before they had dropped on to his knee. It seemed to him as if he still felt on his arm the folds of a green, fur-edged cloak, as if the touch of a soft cold hand were still lingering in his.
A picture over-finished fails in its effect. If the hand of the artist cannot leave it, how much beauty may it undo! yet still he is lingering, still strengthening the weak, still subduing the daring, still searching for that single idea which awakens so many in the minds of others, while often, as it once happened, the dash of despair hangs the foam on the horse's nostrils.
The motion took some of the stiffness out of his limbs, and by the time the judge arrived he was a mile away and was thinking about breakfast. We must do the sportsman the justice of saying that his remorse was very keen when he stepped aboard the train that night, bound for Detroit. He had wounded a deer and had let it get away from him, to suffer, and probably to die a painful, lingering death.
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