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"Wal, lass, hyar you are," he said, with a gladness deep in his voice. "Now, whar's the boy?" "Dad I've not seen Jack since breakfast," replied Columbine, tremulously. "Sort of a laggard in love on his weddin'-day," rejoined the rancher. His gladness and forgetfulness were as big as his heart. "Wade, have you seen Jack?" "No I haven't," replied the hunter, with slow, long-drawn utterance.
We saw the yellowing groves and brown fields of our first autumn; we heard the long-drawn, wavering, mounting, falling, persistent howl of the thresher among the settings of hive-shaped stacks; we saw the loads of red and yellow corn at the corn-cribs, as men at the board of the green cloth hear the striking of the hours. And we heeded them as little.
"Enough of woe upon the earth! for the last two years, Thy creatures have fallen by thousands upon my track. The world is decimated. A veil of mourning extends over all the globe. "From Asia to the icy Pole, they died upon the path of the wanderer. Dost Thou not hear the long-drawn sigh that rises from the earth unto Thee, O Lord? "Mercy for all! mercy for me!
Gradually the rhythmic rise and fall of the waves on the shore had lulled her into slumber the plop as they broke in eddies of creaming foam, and then the sibilant hush-sh-sh like a long-drawn sigh as the water receded only to gather itself afresh into a crested billow. Scarcely more than half awake she sat up and stared about her, dreamily wondering how she came to be there.
"One gets something of an idea of what eternity means," she said, with a long-drawn breath of rapture, when, one day, Katherine accompanied her to a high point which commanded a limitless expanse of sea that seemed to softly melt away into the sky and so become lost to human vision.
The old woman, struck suddenly dumb with intuition, waited only till the dread name had come from Sophia's lips, and then burst into a wild wailing that long-drawn cry for the dead, characteristic of the Russian peasant.
A second recollection supplanted this belief, for in my way to this staircase my attention would have been solicited, and my steps, in some degree, been guided, by light coming through these avenues. Having returned to the bottom of the stair, I perceived every part of the long-drawn passage illuminated.
Previously, the sea had risen and fallen tumidly, as if Father Neptune had been asleep and its monotonous pulsation was caused by his deep, long-drawn breathing; but, now, it crisped and sparkled in the sunshine, whilst its surface was broken by innumerable little wavelets, like curls, that grew into swell-crested billows anon, and, later on still, into great rolling waves as the wind got up this blowing steadily from the eastwards first and then veering round south, following the course of the orb whose heat gave it being.
And now they pause, and the soft voices of the choir break out into sweet gushes of melody; they soar aloft and warble along the roof, and seem to play about these lofty vaults like the pure airs of heaven. Again the pealing organ heaves its thrilling thunders, compressing air into music, and rolling it forth upon the soul. What long-drawn cadences! What solemn sweeping concords!
"Ha!" said the major, with a long-drawn sigh, "those were pleasant times; alas, that they should ever come to an end! Well, among the old hidalgos I met there was one Don Emanuel Selvio de Tormes, an awful old miser, rich as Croesus, and suspicious as the arch-fiend himself. Lord, how I melted him down! I quartered two squadrons of horse and a troop of flying artillery upon him.
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