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On the evening of the 10th January we reached a little clump of poplars on the edge of a large plain on which no tree was visible. It was piercingly cold, a bitter wind swept across the snow, making us glad to find even this poor shelter against the coming night. Two hours after dark the thermometer stood at minus 38 degrees, or 70 degrees of frost.
"Why, it is becoming coated with gold!" I exclaimed. He smiled, but made no reply. Still the strange process continued. The pink vapor became so dense that the lump of gold was no longer visible, although the eye of violet light glared piercingly through the colored fog. Every second the deposit of metal, shining like a mirror, increased, until suddenly there came a curious whistling sound.
The leader had stared long and piercingly into his eyes and Hanlon, wondering and puzzled as to what the man was seeking, merely stared back dumbly. Now he remembered the flashing thought quickly dismissed as ridiculous that even if he did find out where he was going, he must never tell anyone; must forget it entirely and instantly on pain of severe torture.
The notes of the great god Pan, so "piercingly sweet by the river" a far cry and a weary way from Pan to Handel and Beethoven; yet during all that time music has been the joy and the consolation of peoples, all except the Quakers. If Poetry is the prophet of the future, music expresses all emotions, love, joy, fear, above all, aspiration.
Brewster sighed deeply. He was a just man, and he could not but realise that, in the circumstances, Archie had behaved not unnaturally. "Oh, well!" he said. "I might have known something would go wrong." "Awfully sorry!" "It can't be helped. What was it you wanted to tell me?" He eyed his son-in-law piercingly. "Not a cent over twenty dollars!" he said coldly.
Frances Freeland, who during Felix's long speech had almost closed her eyes, opened them, and looked piercingly at the top of his head. "Darling," she said, "I've got the very thing for it. You must take some with you when you go tonight. John is going to try it." Checked in the flow of his philosophy, Felix blinked like an owl surprised.
Twice he heard her heavy footfall on the steps then there was an interval of deep silence then a sharp, grinding clash of metal echoed piercingly through the vault, followed by the noise of a dull, heavy fall, faintly audible far beneath and then the old familiar sounds of the place were heard again, and were not interrupted more. The sacrifice to the Dragon was achieved!
The pinafore was a simple matter for both Miss Summers and Sally; and before the morning was over Miss Summers had visited Madame Gala. "The new little girl's a quick worker," she said. "Very clever. I think she'll be very useful." At which Madame Gala raised her straight brows and looked piercingly at Miss Summers.
So ready was the Wise One to give counsel wherever it was required, that much sooner than could have been expected from one of his age, he stood before the King. Creeping Shadow, lifting her eyes eagerly, beheld a very ancient fairy, clad in deep scarlet. His beard was white as snow. His eyes were piercingly keen. Never had she seen anyone who looked at once so ancient and so wise.
But the girl went on speaking fiercely, impervious to the man's coarse sarcasm, her eyes, which had deepened almost to purple, still fixed piercingly on Gilder, who, for some reason wholly inexplicable to him, felt himself strangely disturbed under that regard.
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