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No use sittin' up if you're sleepy." He listened but did not hear Miss Erith stir. "Better return to bed," he said again, and guided Sixty-seven into the room on the left. For a few moments he prowled around; a glass tinkled against a decanter. When he returned to the shadow-shape seated motionless by the casement window he carried only one glass. "Don't you?" inquired Sixty-seven.
Julien felt that blankets had been heaped upon him, that some gentle hand was bathing his scorching face with vinegar and water. Vaguely also there came to him the idea that it was night. He saw the shadow-shape of a woman moving against the red light upon the wall; he saw there was a lamp burning.
Parish Thornton would have given much for a word of counsel to-night from those silent lips, and hardly realizing what impulse prompted him he raised his eyes to the great gray-purple shadow-shape of the tree. Its roots lay in those Revolutionary graves and its top-most plumes of foliage seemed to brush the starry sky, where the spirits of the dead might be having their longer and serener life.
But Conscience did not at once turn into the house and close the door behind her. She stood by one of the tall pillars and the boy strained his gaze to make out more than the vague outline of a shadow-shape. Then slowly she came down the stairs and out onto the moonlit lawn, walking meditatively in the direction of Stuart Farquaharson's hiding place.
But remembering how they had last parted, Shann did not hurry to meet him. That shadow-shape stretched out a long arm in a sweep as if to pull aside some of the vapor concealing them from each other. Then Shann shivered as if that fog had suddenly turned into the drive of frigid snow. For the mist did roll back so that the two of them stood in an irregular clearing in its midst.
Alas! the music Nature makes, In thousand songs of gladness While charming all around me, wakes My heavy heart to sadness." "Ah! vain to me the joys that break From spring, voluptuous are; For only one 't is mine to seek The near, yet ever far! I stretch my arms, that shadow-shape In fond embrace to hold; Still doth the shade the clasp escape The heart is unconsoled!"
But the child the shadow-shape whose tiny hand was clasped in that of the Divine Woman? Ah, that Ivan shuddered, started, and, by a violent effort, flung off the clinging vision. Old Sósha, standing in the doorway, was saying, in his gentle, plaintive voice: "The tea, your Excellency! It is as you commanded. You have journeyed far and waited long!" "Waited! I commanded tea in an hour.
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