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Updated: June 2, 2025
All night long his soul was tortured with painful thoughts, not of himself, but about those far dearer to him than his own life. Morning glanced through the narrow loophole of his gloomy cell. Nothing else nought to eat, to drink no word of consolation no kind look from his ruffian gaolers. No friend to make inquiry about him no sign that a single heart on earth cared for him. Midday arrived.
It lit a stumbling figure which I saw was Grey, and behind him was a lithe Indian running on his trail. "Open the gate," I cried, and I got my musket in the loophole. The fugitive was all but spent. He ran, bowed almost to the ground, with a wild back glance ever and again over his shoulder. His pursuer gained on him with great strides, and in his hand he carried a bare knife.
You can guess how delighted I was when they came straight across and settled themselves in the angle beneath. Then I crept halfway down the stairs and leaned as far as I dared through the loophole, being just in time to hear Gros Jean read a letter from his daughter.
Very unwillingly Lancelot and Dick and I gave the promise exacted from us, though we were more content when my father took us to the church, and told us that we might remain in the tower, whence, as it overlooked the greater portion of the lines, we could see through a narrow loophole what was going forward.
But if her husband were dishonorable, Helen was made safe, so far as worldly matters went safe, except for the grief from which, alas! no human friend can protect another a broken heart! Was her heart broken or breaking? The earl could not tell nor even guess. She left them at home not a loophole whereby to form a conjecture.
For the grotesqueness and inconvenience of a wound are sometimes more swiftly felt than its pain. He came back presently with his shoulder bandaged and resumed his place at the loophole. The exhilaration of that powder atmosphere and its heat made soldiers throw off their coats, as if the expanding human body was not to be confined in wrappings.
Through the eastern loophole stream the first beams of the rising sun, and strike right across the circle, touching the folded petals of the great gold flower as they pass till they impinge upon the western altar. In the same way at night the last rays of the sinking sun rest for a while on the eastern altar before they die away into darkness.
My soul sickened to think myself his by a promise; but I revolved the words of my promise, and saw in them a loophole of escape. So, when he claimed me, I said, 'Ay! ay! lay thy head in my lap, as if my mind treasured it. Then he lay there, and revealed to me his plans for the destruction of men.
Instead, he must preach his final sermons without flinching, must confine them so closely to the matter of mere practical living as to leave no loophole for dogma to creep in; he must make everything as easy as possible for his successor who, at best, was bound to have a hard time of it in starting; above all, he must help Katharine to choose exactly such a house as she wished, and to furnish it exactly as her taste should dictate.
"I am afraid you are not the temporizing kind. But wasn't there, mayn't there still be a way to deal with this fearful situation? You have made it very hard for us for them. You have given them no loophole of escape. And there are many, like me, who do not wish to see your career ruined, Mr. Hodder." "Would you prefer," he asked, "to see my soul destroyed? And your own?" Her lips twitched.
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