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In less time than it takes to narrate it, Lester Armstrong was hurriedly conveyed into the house. The place consisted of but two rooms, and into the inner one Lester was thrust with but little ceremony, and tossed upon a pallet of straw in the corner. He had not entirely lost consciousness, as they supposed, but was only stunned, realizing fully all that was transpiring about him.
Suddenly a cry broke from within; and Richard, turning at the voice, beheld the blind man sitting up on his pallet with arms outstretched. "My child! My Father! hast thou brought her to visit me in limbo?" he cried. "He raves!" said Richard, using his strength to withhold the child, who broke out into a shriek. "Nay, nay! she doth not abide here!" he exclaimed. "Her spirit is pure!
They were interrupted by a procession of servants bringing in the covered pallet. The spread was thrown off, a restorative administered to the recumbent figure Henriette sat up and gazed in blank stupefaction at the crowding revelers. She staggered to her feet, looking for a friendly face somewhere. Of a sudden, the mental image of her lost sister shot her as with a violent agony.
So they laid her, as I said before, on that little pallet bed; and, as they were slowly withdrawing from the bedside, hoping and praying that she might sleep, and forget for a time her heavy burden, she looked wistfully after Mary, and whispered "You haven't told me what it is. What is it?"
With eyes still fixed hungrily on the glittering pieces, she strove to calm the struggle waged between misery and virtue in her heart; then, by a desperate effort, she closed her eyes as if to escape the fascination of the gold, and sank back wearily on her wretched pallet. "Go, and leave me in peace!" she said feebly, as if exhausted by the violent conflict.
One hand rested by the finger-tips upon the open volume before her; her glistening robes fell back as she gained her full height, she swayed forward toward the assembly that leaned itself toward her; the left hand threw itself back with a noble gesture of generous declaring; the fingers curving from the open palm as it might have been toward the pallet of the dead soldier at her side.
Certainly, I do not know any borrowed pencil that has more power or felicity of execution than the one of which I have here been speaking. It is as easy to write a gaudy style without ideas as it is to spread a pallet of showy colours or to smear in a flaunting transparency. 'What do you read? 'Words, words, words. 'What is the matter? 'Nothing, it might be answered.
Pietro knelt by the pallet and tenderly kissed one transparent hand. The great black eyes turned upon him wild and wide. "Thou hast seen him, Pietro?" in a breathless sort of way. "Zara says so." "I have seen him, my mother; I have spoken to him. I spent hours with Sir Jasper Kingsland last night." "Thou didst?" Her words came pantingly, while passion throbbed in every line of her face.
Hadgi was so transported with his good fortune, that he ran to Pipes, who was in the room, and having hugged him with great cordiality, and made his obeisance to his master, hied him home to his bride, to communicate his happiness, cutting capers, and talking to himself all the way. He is visited by Pallet Contracts an Intimacy with a Newmarket Nobleman, and is by the Knowing Ones taken in.
However, it was all Oriental luxury, and I did what I could to enjoy it. They put me in another part of the barn and laid me on a stuffy sort of pallet, which was not made of cloth of gold, or Persian shawls, but was merely the unpretending sort of thing I have seen in the negro quarters of Arkansas. There was nothing whatever in this dim marble prison but five more of these biers.
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