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Updated: May 1, 2025
"To-morrow night," said he, to the hired boy, "we'll have a reg'lar old-fashioned 'coon hunt!" Then, whistling off the setter, who was barking, jumping, and whining ecstatically at the foot of the sycamore-tree, he turned and strode away through the moon-shadows of the forest, with the dog and the hired boy at his heels.
Beverley's indulgence and went out to find a chair in a corner of the veranda where the frivolities had not as yet intruded. It was a North Shore night like that in which Shakespeare has mingled moon-shadows with the gossamer fantasies of the immortal "Dream."
Thus they moved round together, the moon-shadows from the twigs racing over their forms as they turned. The interview lasted about half an hour. Then he somewhat abruptly handed her over the stile and stood looking at her from the other side. 'Well, he murmured, 'what has come to pass is strange! My whole business after this will be to recover my right mind!
She seemed to know tortuous narrow streets, white houses of silence with strange moon-shadows, and the glow of yellow light within, and the tinkling of uncouth instruments, and the acrid scents of Eastern perfumes. It was like a procession passing through her mind of persons who were not human, yet existed mysteriously, with a life of vampires.
She fled to her own room, and burying her face in the pillow she wept until she fell asleep. The moon-shadows grew longer about the arbored gateway where the two she had left stood talking in low tones, looking furtively now and then toward the house, and withdrawing into the covert of the bushes by the walk. But Kate dared not linger long.
I was walking swiftly, not much alive to outward impressions, scarce noticing even the strange play of the moon-shadows over the marshes, and had got perhaps a stone's throw past the barn, when a creeping sensation about my skin, and a thrill of nervous apprehension made me stop suddenly and take a look behind.
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