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Updated: May 8, 2025
Lying down contentedly upon the hard and narrow bed which was the best the inn provided, he murmured his usual prayer, "If this should be the sleep of death, Jesus receive my soul!" and remained for a little while with his eyes open, looking at the white glory of the moonlight as it poured through his lattice window and formed delicate traceries of silver luminance on the bare wooden floor.
I lay there, and felt It seek for me across the darkness with tentacles of evil that groped for some part of me upon which It might lay hold. The room was still. Between the draperies, the window showed nothing to the eye except a dark square faintly tinged with the night luminance of the sky. There was nothing to see; nothing to hear.
A whistle, an eerie, minor whistle, subscribed the ultimate touch of terror to the night. The silhouette disappeared, and, shortly afterwards, the gray luminance. A faint click told of some shutter being fastened; complete silence reigned. Soames groped his way to the bed and fell weakly upon it, half lying down and burying his face in the pillow.
A singularly brilliant glare of luminance reflected from the plain clear glass that filled the apertures of the rose-window above the altar, struck aslant on the old-world sarcophagus which doubtless contained the remains of one who, all 'miraculous' attributes apart, had nobly lived and bravely died, and as the Bishop moved reverently round it to the front of the altar-rails, his eyes were uplifted and full of spiritual rapture.
For a moment he stood in indecision; then he walked softly to the open front door and stood waiting on the threshold. It would be easier to explain his presence there. The sky had grown darker; curling billows of cloud rolling in from the south had chased away the orange glow and their under surface was lit by a pale-green luminance as they came.
Impelled to movement, she went to the window which she had left to take up the steering-gear, and from there saw again the wonderful scene spread out below, the towers, spires, cupolas and bridges, all lit with that mysterious golden luminance like smouldering sunset fire. "It is beautiful!" she said "It seems true it seems real "
As this was done, and the sudden luminance dispersed some of the darker shadows in the room, the grand picture on the easel was thrown into full prominence, and the magnificent Christ, descending in clouds of glory, seemed to start from the painted canvas and move towards them all.
He looked from right to left the apple-boughs, loaded with rosy fruit, were intertwined above them like a canopy the sinking sun made mellow gold of all the air, and touched the girl's small figure with a delicate luminance his heart beat, and for a second his senses swam in a giddy whirl of longing and ecstasy then he suddenly pulled himself together.
You fix the lighting." She vanished into an adjoining room, while Davilof proceeded to switch off most of the burners, leaving only those which illumined the space in front of the great mirror. The remainder of the big room receded into a grey twilight encircling the patch of luminance.
They all came just then to a pause in their walk, Gervase stopping to light a fresh cigarette. The rays of the rising moon fell upon him as he stood, a tall and stately figure, against a background of palms, and shone on his dark features with a touch of grayish- green luminance that gave him for the moment an almost spectral appearance. Dr. Dean glanced at him with a smile.
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