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Updated: June 21, 2025
Her eyes were purple-black, like the berries of the deadly nightshade seen in the twilight. Her face was pale, and the scarlet of her lips lay like twin geranium petals on new-fallen snow. Gilles de Retz followed her with a certain grim and ghastly pride, as he marked the sensation caused by her entrance. "This," he said, "is my lion tamer!"
In dismay the boys looked at one another. Already the mountains were turning purple-black in the twilight, the shadows transforming the trees and rocks into weird figures. "Perhaps it's under the bear," hazarded Horace, his low voice evidencing the awe which the silence and the surroundings inspired in him. "Then give a hand while we move him," commanded Larry.
And to this Quain held inflexibly; so that, in the end, Amber, unable to move him, was obliged to leave the matter in his hands. A sullen and portentous dawn hung in the sky when the little party left the cabin. In the east the entire firmament was ensanguined with sinister crimson and barred with long reefs of purple-black clouds in motionless suspense.
It had all been so peaceful, so elemental and satisfying before: that companionship with the little lonely, aspiring, neglected child. She was so responsive and joyous; so eager to learn, so childishly interested in the fairy tales of another sort of existence that he kept from decay by repeating to her. And then that sudden, upleaping flame in the purple-black eyes.
It was a city of indescribable beauty now. It was one of the things that made this trip worthwhile. Now the shining city dropped behind them, and only the soft green of the Jersey hills, and the deep purple-black of the sky above were visible.
On every side the snow lay a stained and crumpled blanket, with here and there a light or a chimney to show the village sleeping beneath. The sky was a purple-black hemisphere, out of which the stars glittered almost white.
In India skies were hot and blazing; this was of a deep cool blue which almost seemed to sparkle like the waters of some lovely bottomless lake, and here and there, high, high in the arched blueness floated small clouds of snow-white fleece. The far-reaching world of the moor itself looked softly blue instead of gloomy purple-black or awful dreary gray. "Aye," said Martha with a cheerful grin.
One of my own classmates has undergone a singular change of late years, his hair losing its original tint, and getting a remarkable discolored look; and another has ceased to cultivate any hair at all over the vertex or crown of the head. So I am perfectly willing to believe that the purple-black of the Koh-i-noor's moustache and whiskers is constitutional and not pigmentary.
She famishes. She wishes to be restored. Restore her, Mother! It is the first duty of a mother to restore her child! She is hardly able to walk; she already totters under the weight of a doll. It is a charming and elegant affair. It has pink cheeks and purple-black hair.
For the sky, from the western horizon to the zenith, and from thence to the serried peaks and frowning bastions of purple-black cloud that lowered in the north, was all orange-crimson now, and the moon, then at the ending of her second quarter, swung like a pale lamp of electrum at the eastward corner of the flaming tent. "Was it wise?"
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