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Updated: June 5, 2025
The native Javanese resided in separate quarters, each of which is surrounded by a fence of bamboo paling, or a wall. We should conceive these people to lead a primitive and pleasant life, for in those quarters the bamboo houses seemed to be scattered indiscriminately under the shade of bananas, cocoa nuts, and other fruit trees.
Shand, suddenly losing his temper, gave Joe a push that sent the youth sprawling inside on his hands and knees. He sprang up livid and insane with rage. Jack and Shand instinctively drew together. Joe, seeing the odds against him, leaped without a word toward the corner of the shack where the guns were kept. The other two paling, measured the distance back to the door.
Sadly do I ask myself, Is the splendor of the summer only this? was it only this? or is it the fault of my eyes, and as time goes on shall I behold everything around me paling still more?
They passed through the paling fence and along the disordered beds, where a night of too early frost had touched with chill fingers of disaster the latest buds. Leila moved about looking at the garden, fingering a bud here and there with gentle epitaphs of "late," "too late," or gathering the more matronly roses which had bloomed in time.
On three sides the sky compass'd me wild and red, save where to eastward the dawn was paling: on the fourth the dark rocky face seem'd gliding upward as Billy lower'd. Far below I heard the wash of the sea, and could just spy the white spume of it glimmering. It stole some of the heart out of me, and I took my eyes off it.
But if, ah, if " and the girl rose to her feet suddenly, with paling face. The house of Lawyer Hutchings was commodious and comfortable. It was only two storeys high, and its breadth made it appear squat; it was solidly built of rough, brown stone, and a large wooden verandah gave shade and a lounging-place in front. It stood in its own grounds on the outskirts of the town, not far from Mr.
"What others?" faltered Miriam Arnold, her eyes filling with strange apprehension, her face visibly paling. "Some bitter attacks on him that appeared in the Boston and Philadelphia papers about that night surprise of Lone Wolf's village the one he accused Mr. Lanier of having started." "Accused Mr. Lanier!" And Miriam Arnold, with consternation in her voice, was half rising from the table.
"Oh, dadda," murmured Janice, suddenly paling, "'t is Colonel Brereton they have captured!" "Nonsense, Jan! 't is impossible to know any man, so covered." The girl attempted no reassertion, and as the three officers marched up to the headquarters, the two hastily rose from the steps. "Ha!" exclaimed one of the British officers.
A red flush leaped into Ashton's face. Gowan struck his spurs into his horse's flank and loped away. Ashton stood motionless. The puncher disappeared down the mountain side. The twilight faded and darkness closed down about the tortured man. He stood there motionless, his convulsed face alternately flushing and paling, his eyes now clouding, now burning with rage and hate.
Before him was the Rue Royale dipping down to the expanse of the Place de la Concorde, where rose the obelisk and the pair of plashing fountains. And, farther yet, the paling colonnade of the Chamber of Deputies bounded the horizon.
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