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She glided down the corridor, down the sweeping stair-way, the soft carpeting muffling every tread the dim night-lamps lighting her on her way. No human sound startled her. All in the house were peacefully asleep all save that flying figure, and one other wicked watcher. She gained the door in safety. It yielded to her touch. She opened it, and was out alone in the black, gusty night.
But even as his lips parted, a hand came from behind him and placed a soft muffling substance over his mouth. "Tie it tight," the man in front said in a low whisper. Durham felt the passing of a thong round and round his head. He tried to raise his legs to kick the floor of the verandah, but they were too securely fastened to the sides of the chair. He could move neither hand nor foot.
All at once the tall figure of a man clad in complete armor came into sudden view between some heavily drooping boughs, it stood out for a second, and then hurriedly disappeared, muffling its face in a black mantle as it fled.
Light echoes called her back along the hall. The furniture, the muffling curtains, her own reflection flying through the mirrors, held up to her her madness, and by their mute stability seemed to remind her of the shelter she was leaving seemed to forbid. She ran. This was not shelter; it was prison. He was rescue; he was light itself. The only chance for her was to get near enough to him.
Before the sound of their footsteps had ceased to echo through the house, the girl had slipped off her shoes; and drawing her gown loosely over her head, and muffling her arms in it, stood at the door, listening with breathless interest. The moment the noise ceased, she glided from the room; ascended the stairs with incredible softness and silence; and was lost in the gloom above.
Peering round, he had the mouth of the cave in full view till the darkness hid it. "Now's the time!" said he. He took off his coat and lit the lantern under it, muffling the light. "Seals? Come along, man; I promise you the cave is just full of sport!" He crept for the cave, and Dan'l at his heels, the sand deadening all sound of their footsteps.
The old man stood just behind them, so as to form the chief figure in the group, with his sable cloak muffling the lower part of his visage, and his sombre list overshadowing his brows.
But all this was concealed by the thick, muffling, outer veil; they also had horsehair visards through which they could see without being seen."
Mankind take up some blushes on the score; Monopolize perfection no more; In your own Arts confess yourself out-done, The Moon hath totally eclips'd the Sun, Not with her Sable Mantle muffling him; But her bright silver makes his gold look dim; Just as his beams force our pale lamps to wink, And earthly Fires, within their ashes shrink.
Smiling adieu to the ladies, bowing to the gentlemen, and apprehending all the homage they would pour out to her condescending beauty when she had left them, the Countess's graceful hand gave the signal for Beckley. She stopped the coachman ere the wheels had rolled off the muffling turf, to enjoy one glimpse of Evan and Rose riding together, with the little maid on her pony in the rear.
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