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Updated: May 22, 2025
The tight-pressed lids flew open, and for a long time she watched the shadow-dance of the flames on her tent wall. Dim, and elusive, and far away faded the dancing shadow-shapes and she slept. Not so Vermilion, who, when his companions tired of their game and sought their blankets, sat and stared into the embers of his dying fire. The half-breed was troubled.
Personally, I am convinced that the suggestive silhouettes I saw on that ghastly curtain of fog were cast by beatified beings in some earthly paradise a mirage of bliss of which we caught but the colorless shadow-shapes floating 'twixt sea and sky.
The answer was old as patience as old as courage. But to theorize about it was really superfluous! Why think at all? Why not say chug-chug like the liner? "We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go " Dinner! Was it possible? The day had been a blur! Well, probably all the rest of life would be a blur.
There was with them now quite a company of persons still shadow-shapes, for the mists were thick about the road, but soon all the butchers and bakers of the world and, let it be remembered, all the lovers, would be revealed. Now, as they climbed the hill, silence fell even young Daffoll was quiet; that, too, it seemed, was part of the ceremony. The hill top was swiftly gained.
"Pleasant ghosts in lace ruffles and velvet coats, smoking long pipes around a punch bowl; beautiful ghosts in patches and powder," he made an expressive gesture; "they have mingled with the rest of you shadow-shapes of youth and loveliness." "Well, if anybody can tell about it, Mother can," said Randy, "but I don't believe there were ever any prettier girls than are here to-night."
From under the canopy of darkness the fiery spears had dropped away, leaving the thick folds sagging lower and lower. Swarming under its shelter, the shadow-shapes were closing in upon her. For a while she watched them absently; then a whim of her tortured brain poisoned them also. They became terrible nameless Things, mouthing at her, darting upon her.
The fatalism of the East as expressed by Omar Khayyam is the daily creed of India's millions: "We are no other than a Moving Row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go. . . . "But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checkerboard of Nights and Days."
At seven o'clock the ice-clad packet from Dieppe entered the harbor and dropped anchor. Among those who disembarked were two Jesuit priests and an Iroquois Indian, who immediately set out for the episcopal palace. They passed unobserved through the streets, for the blinding, whirling snow turned them into shadow-shapes, or effaced them totally from sight.
His words reminded me of what Goethe had said about himself: in each of the ten years he spent on his "Theory of Light" he could have written a couple of plays as good as his best. The land of Might-have-been is peopled with these gorgeous shadow-shapes. Oscar had already found his public, a public capable of appreciating the very best he could do.
His contemplation of existence is no brooding over abstractions; Nature is not in his view the majestic and silent figure before whose unchanging eyes the shifting shadow-shapes go and come; but an essential life, manifesting itself in a million workings, creatrix, gubernans, daedala rerum.
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