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Updated: June 22, 2025
What thrilled her was the boom of winter surf, piling iridescent frozen spume as high as a man's head, and rimming the island in a corona of shattered rainbows. And she had an eye for summer lightning infusing itself through sheets of water as if descending in the downpour, glorifying for one instant every distinct drop.
"Old enough, at any rate, to have lost all my illusions." There was an undercurrent so bitter in the curtly uttered speech that Ann's warm young sympathies responded involuntarily. "I wish I could bring them back for you," she said impulsively. Through the flickering luminance of the lights rimming the boat's gunwale he looked at her with an odd intensity.
As though he expected to find something there he looked toward a little timber grove to the right of the house, far back toward the rimming hills. At the edge of the grove he saw a horse, saddled and bridled. A quick change came over Nyland. The blood left his face, and his eyes took on an expression of cold cunning. Dismounting, he hitched his horse to one of the rails of the corral fence.
But Miss Theodosia's eyes were cheerfully following the infinitesimal stitches with which she was rimming an infinitesimal round hole in the bit of linen in her hand. "How far have you got?" she questioned over a new stitch. "Not very far," sadly; "I think I am a little afraid of my heroine." "Mercy gracious! Well, I think I'd take her by the ear and march her round to suit myself!
Tommy Burkitt, staring back across the broken miles of mountain, cañon, and forest, his eyes frowning, was muttering: "Look at that, Bud. What do you make of it?" For a little Lee did not answer. He and Tommy and Hampton, standing among the rocks, turned their eyes together toward the hills rimming in the northern side of Blue Lake ranch.
In addition to his meagre flock many an unclaimed goat of the world fell into that meek valley-path of Sunday mornings and came to hear, if not to heed, the voice of this quiet shepherd; so that now, as be stood delivering his final exhortation, his eyes ranged over wild, lawless, desperate countenances, rimming him darkly around.
It was the water, stealing in upon him, quiet as a cat. He could not stay where he was. To do so was to drown. There was but one thing for it to climb. He glanced up. Things were not so hopeless as he had feared. The mists were drifting seaward. He could see the dark crest of grass rimming the cliff-edge above him.
As they crossed the plowed land rimming the yard, sleepy birds fluttered up in front of them with startled cheeps and a whistle of wings. They swerved to find the shack road, along which the way was freer and more quiet, and the pace easy. Charley glanced back now and then to see if they were close; or, halted them, when they listened, holding their breath.
To either side, beyond stone walls, the fields ran bare and brown to distant woods. The shadow of the wayside trees grew longer and the air more deep and cold. They passed a string of white-covered wagons bearing forage for the army. The sun touched the western hills, rimming them as with a forest fire.
How many times, in early winter twilights, has she come over the stile into the Stone Hall meadow, and stood long moments, hushed, bespelled, by the tranquil pale loveliness of the lake, the dusky, rimming hills, the bare, slim blackness of twig and bough embroidering the silver sky, the whole luminous etching?
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