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A shore with deep indented bays, And o'er the gleaming water-ways A glimpse of Islands in the haze; A faced bronzed dark to red and gold, With mountain eyes that seem to hold The freshness of the world of old; A shepherd's crook, a coat of fleece, A grazing flock the sense of peace, The long sweet silence this is Greece." The accompaniment continued for a moment alone, whispering remoteness.
Duke Carl had effected arrangements for his marriage, secret, but complete and soon to be made public. Long since he had cast complacent eyes on a strange architectural relic, an old grange or hunting-lodge on the heath, with he could hardly have defined what charm of remoteness and old romance.
Hence the solitary hostelry of A , being somewhat more frequented, is also more clean and comfortable than could reasonably be anticipated from the insignificance and remoteness of the village.
"Princes," said he, "have no right to be careless; since universal agreement has made us Highnesses, we must know how to carry our burden, and to lay it down at no time, and in no place." Mademoiselle excused herself on the ground of her remoteness from the world, and on the expense, which she wished to keep down.
So long as he gets his fare, the ferryman does not need to be told whom he carries: he pulls with a will, and heroes may be over in half-an-hour. Only when they stand on the opposite bank, do they see what a leap they have taken. The shores they have relinquished shrink to an infinite remoteness. There they have dreamed: here they must act.
You see, Jeffrey, it may be that I shall have to look to you as my my my heir, in short." Hereupon Jeffrey muttered something as to the small probability of such necessity, and as to the great remoteness of any result even if it were so. "That's all true," said the elder heir of the Pallisers, "but still . In short, I wish you would do something.
I have always liked you very much and I did amuse you didn't I? You liked to come here." There was something poignant about her delicate distraught loveliness and, in the remoteness of his being, a shuddering knowledge that it was quite true that she would do anything for any man who would take care of her, produced an effect on him nothing else would have produced.
What she was made of, as a matter of fact, was what heightened the effect of remoteness she produced a hard dark wood unknown to the lower Karun, cut in lengths of not more than two or three feet and caulked with reeds and mud. "'Make thee an ark of gopher wood," quoted the stranger. "'Rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and thou shalt pitch it within and without with pitch."
They had never for a moment meant their new state to be one of idleness; but they meant to give themselves only to harmonious activities. Dorsetshire had attracted them from the first by a semblance of remoteness out of all proportion to its geographical position.
Duke Carl had effected arrangements for his marriage, secret, but complete and soon to be made public. Long since he had cast complacent eyes on a strange architectural relic, an old grange or hunting-lodge on the heath, with he could hardly have defined what charm of remoteness and old romance.
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