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Updated: June 22, 2025
He ate his scanty supper, which Hagar poor heart! had placed upon the table with a wonderful display of dishes, as if to make up for the lack of food by a board spread with cups and plates enough for a feast, and then took his way to the silent library. He sat down at his organ, and from its long-silent pipes drew soft and tender music that filled the room and stole gently through the house.
She could almost have fancied that she heard the long-silent sounds of her father's step, her father's way of breathing, the rustle of his newspaper as he hastily turned it over, coming through the lapse of years; the silence of the night. She knew that she had the little writing-case of her girlhood with her, in her box.
The wonder of the new message was carried throughout the land and brought great multitudes to the Jordan. Jesus in Nazareth heard it, and recognized in John a revival of the long-silent prophetic voice.
"Is that meant as a protest?" she asked, assuming an air of playful indifference which she was very far from feeling. "Am I intended to take it as a rebuke?" Perhaps the light detachment of her manner jangled some long-silent chord, roused an echo from the past, for his face darkened. "You can take it so, if you wish," he said curtly. She was silent.
The long-silent drawing-rooms, shrouded for twenty years in holland and darkness, were one blaze of light at last.
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