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Updated: June 8, 2025
It is the fear of Indians alone that causes the prairie traveller to keep sentry during the live-long night; but our young hunters had much less fear of them than might be supposed. There had been as yet no hostilities in this quarter between whites and Indians; besides, Basil knew that he carried a token of friendship should the latter come upon them.
The household is roused, dull lanterns glance among the shrubberies; pine-lights, ill-shielded from wind and rain by cap or cloak, are seen dotting the park in every direction, and dance about through the darkness, like sportive wild-fires: Sir Clement in moody calmness looks prepared for any thing the worst, like a man who anticipates evil long-deserved; the broken-hearted mother is on her knees at the cold door-steps, striving to pierce the gloom with her eyes, and ejaculating distracted prayers: and so the live-long night that night of doubt, and dread, and dreariness through bitter hours of confusion and dismay, they sought poor Margaret and found her not!
The children could not for the life of them play birds, or butterflies, or carpenter, or scissors-grinder, for they wanted to shout the live-long day 'Christmas bells are ringing sweet, We too the happy day must greet'; or 'Under the holly, now, Sing and be jolly, now, Christmas has come and the children are glad'; or 'Hurrah for Santa Claus!
Officers and ladies, the privileged class of the army, made their own regulations as to domestic hours of retiring. The enlisted man slept or was supposed to sleep "by order." Mr. Davies, finding it essential to his comfort to sally forth and imbibe free air, had no one to say him nay, Mrs. Davies having retired, and might wander the live-long night about the post at will.
Others slept, but their dream-talking told of troubled visions recalling, maybe, dark scenes of guilt. A few seemed to lie awake all the live-long night at intervals tossing about, as though kept on the alert by thirst, hunger, or the apprehension of approaching death. Brace and I sat close together.
It was like the setting of a cloudless sun: which, after pouring its fattening beams on the fields of a live-long summer's day, goes down in smiles to rise a brighter beauty on another day.
It would have been some consolation to have heard his voice, but he lay shivering the live-long night like a man afflicted with the palsy, with his knees drawn up to his head, while his back was supported against the dripping side of the rock. During this wretched night there seemed nothing wanting to complete the perfect misery of our condition.
We praise the Life of Work, Who from sleep's lonely dark Leads forth his children to arise and stand, Then go their way, The live-long day, To trust and labour in the land. We praise the Life of Good, Who breaks sin's lazy mood, Toilsomely ploughing up the fruitless sand. The furrowed waste They leave, and haste Home, home, to till their Father's land.
The sky that has been all of one hue during the live-long day wherever you looked, nothing but pale, pale azure is now like the palette of some God-painter splashed and freaked with all manner of great and noble colors a most regal blaze of gold wide plains of crimson, as if all heaven were flashing at some high thought little feathery cloud-islands of tenderest rose-pink.
Well, I stopped at home-the live-long day." As if moved by his agitated tone, she murmured a sympathetic "I see! It must have been trying enough." "You seem to understand one's feelings," said Razumov steadily. "It was trying. It was horrible; it was an atrocious day. It was not the last." "Yes, I understand. Afterwards, when you heard they had got him.
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