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While Ellen was yet going over and over these precious things, with a strong sense of their preciousness in all her throbbing grief, there came to her ear, through the perfect stillness of the night, the faint, far-off, not to be mistaken sound of quick-coming horses' feet nearer and nearer every second.
The very mention of Rome suggests the same continually repeated series of antecedent tragedy and consequent wandering, pointing backward to the fabled siege of Troy and the flight of Aeneas, "profugus" from Asia to Italy, and forward to the quick-coming footsteps of the Northern profugi, who were eager, even this side the grave, to enter the Valhalla of their dreams.
At length dark clouds were seen gathering in the horizon, light scud flew across the sky, the sea began to rise the canoes laboured much soon they were pitching violently into the quick-coming seas: still they were skilfully managed, and the wind allowed them to keep their course. Gradually, however, they drifted further and further apart. Night came on, but the tempest did not abate.
"Of Heaven or Hell I have no power to sing, I cannot ease the burden of your fears Or make quick-coming death a little thing." It is the last line that makes me smile rather quietly, "Or make quick-coming death a little thing." I smile because the souls who wear khaki have learnt to do just that.
Still, who can say what he would do in the haste of such a brief moral conflict? I could recall, as I sat still and reflected, the really savage joy in his face as he collared me. How deeply he must love her! He seemed, as it were, to go to pieces at her cry. Was she ill? Did her quick-coming sense of my danger make her faint?
Philip interrupted eagerly "Will you leave her with Grannie!" "Well, no, that wasn't what I was thinking. Grannie's a bit ould getting and she's had her whack. Wanting aisement in her ould days, anyway. Then she'll be knocking under before the lil one's up that's only to be expected. No, I was thinking what d'ye think I was thinking now?" "What?" said Philip with quick-coming breath.
All this in a tone of deep entreaty, and then, with quick-coming breath, "Jemmy, get the carriage at Shimmin's and drive it yourself if there is any attempt at Ramsey to take the horse out drive to the lane between the chapel and the cottage the moment the lady joins you you are right, Kate you cannot live here any longer this life of deception must end that's the churring of the night-jar going up to Ballure Glen."
Willie Ray, who had left home at early dawn, came back to Shoulthwaite Moss with flushed face and quick-coming breath. Ralph and his mother were at breakfast. His father, who had been at market the preceding day, had not risen. "Dreadful, dreadful!" cried Willy. "Old Wilson is dead. Found dead in the dike between Smeathwaite and Fornside. Murdered, no doubt, for his wages; nothing left about him."
The burden of our fears has slipped from our shoulders in our attempt to do something for others; the unbelievable and long coveted miracle has happened at last to every soul who has grasped his chance of heroism quick-coming death has become a fifth-rate calamity. In saying this I do not mean to glorify war; war can never be anything but beastly and damnable. It dates back to the jungle.
Manfully they paddled on, but the spray from the small but quick-coming waves dashed in their faces, and the slightest cessation of exertion allowed the light canoe to be blown back again like a feather before the breeze. Nobly they persevered. Once under the lee of the land, they knew that their progress would be more rapid. At last they caught sight of their own landing-place.
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