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Updated: May 25, 2025
Blindly he stepped over the fellow's body, and out into the open. A man, on hands and knees, was crawling away round the corner of the cottage; another lay dead on his face across the way. Before him he saw a little cloud of men, and the gleam of a silver head thrusting out moon-like from among them. Blindly he fired into the brown, and blindly followed up.
They went about in white cotton gowns amazingly clean, considering that they lived under a tree tied at the waist with red scarfs; their black hair was smoothly gathered at the backs of their pretty heads, and they had a demure and quaintly maternal air; they looked at you with a tranquil, moon-like gaze, which seemed to say that their ideas, which were on the way, had tarried for the moment in some boon southern country.
Many was the dark afternoon through the long February and March months that they sat together in the dim drawing-room, Maggie straining her eyes over an attempted reform of some garment, Mr. Magnus talking in his mild ironical voice with his large moon-like spectacles fixed upon nothing in particular. Mr. Magnus did all the talking.
The boudoir to the left was fitted up as a card-room; the drawing-room was of course for the reception of the company, the chandeliers and yellow damask being displayed this night in all their splendor; and the charming conservatory over the landing was ornamented by a few moon-like lamps, and the flowers arranged so that it had the appearance of a fairy bower.
The first group were hence inferred to resemble Mars in physical constitution, nature of atmosphere, and reflective capacity; the second to be moon-like bodies.
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