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Here the speaker paused, and Theos, surveying the vast listening crowds, fancied they looked like an audience of moveless ghosts rather than human beings, so still, so pallid, so grave were they, one and all. Khosrul continued in softer, more melancholy accents, that, while plaintive, were still singularly impressive.

So as Costobarus' gaze wandered he did not see far above that heap of striped garments in his garden walk, fixed like an enchanted thing, moveless, dead-calm, a great desert vulture poised in air. Presently another and yet another materialized out of the blue, growing larger as they fell down to the level of their fellow. Slowly the three swooped down over the heap on the garden walk.

In the bed lay one of the loveliest young creatures I had ever seen. And, one on each side, stood two of the most dreadful-looking women I had ever beheld. Still as death, while I examined my patient, they stood, with moveless faces, one as white as the other. Only the eyes of both of them were alive. One was evidently mistress, and the other servant.

October, shone royally on Richard's fourteenth birthday. The brown beechwoods and golden birches glowed to a brilliant sun. Banks of moveless cloud hung about the horizon, mounded to the west, where slept the wind. Promise of a great day for Raynham, as it proved to be, though not in the manner marked out.

His hair blew black; his face flushed; and in his eyes there was the joy of the sailor, long land-bound, who climbs at last the tallest mast and feels it pitch beneath him and catches the sharp tang of the travelled wind. The struggle ceased as if in obedience to an inaudible command. From the full frenzy of motion horse and man were suddenly moveless.

All about, above, and below, lay the graceful creatures of the water, moveless and dead here on the shore, but there launched into their own elemental world, and blown upon by the living wind endowed at once with life and motion and quick response.

Then the rector said he was past praying for and had better read the Decalogue. When next day Mark Rivers was being shaved by the skilled hand of Josiah, he heard the voice of his friend and fishing-companion, the Rev. Isaac Grace, "What about the trout-brook this afternoon?" "Of course," said Mark, moveless under the razor. "Call for me at five." "Seen yesterday's Press?" "No.

Go there in two days and get the money. You will carry it to headquarters. These are General Papineau's orders. You will understand that your men " Ferrol heard no more, for the two rebels passed on, their voices becoming indistinct. He sat for a few moments moveless, for an idea had occurred to him even as Papineau's agent spoke. If that money were only his!

The deep, sincere tone of his voice was one; two little ground squirrels watching them from a mossy ledge of rock two white butterflies fanning a lace-weed bloom two majestic birds, with moveless, outstretched wings, weaving graceful aerial figures far up in the sky made only a part of the afternoon which spoke to her. Everything which rested in the charm of this day, waved to her sweet warnings!

If it were dropped where the sea is deepest it would not reach the bottom, but would hang suspended in dark, moveless depths where only a few fishes range, in a cool, deep grave "made without hands, in a world without stain," surrounded by a lovely revel of Bacchanals, youths and maidens, and wild creatures from the woods, man in his primitive animality. But nothing lasts for ever.