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They worked towards an end, but it was a worthy end for ambition, if not too extravagant, is a virtue. Men with votes and influence compared this squire in their minds with other squires, whose lives seemed spent in a slumberous donothingness. Thus, by degrees, the young squire's mansion and estate added to his reputation. The labour which all this represented was immense.
"Was naught around but images of rest, And flowery beds, that slumberous influence kest , Sleep-soothing groves and quiet lawns between, From poppies breathed; and beds of pleasant green." A drive of a few minutes had landed us in the heart of this little Paradise, baths and Casino standing in the midst of park-like grounds.
She was indeed the very florescence of that region of ancient belief and rectitude; she would certainly not have sprouted elsewhere; she could only appear and develop there, amidst that belated race, amidst the slumberous peacefulness of a childlike people, under the moral discipline of religion. And what intense love at once burst forth all around her!
I too felt a slumberous influence after watching him half an hour, as he sat thus with his eyes half open, like a cat, winged brother of the cat. There was only a narrow slit left between their lids, by which he preserved a pennisular relation to me; thus, with half-shut eyes, looking out from the land of dreams, and endeavoring to realize me, vague object or mote that interrupted his visions.
All night she watched the changing shores, silvery green or dark with slumberous shadow, and followed the moon in its tranquil journey through the sky. When it set, she drew her cloak about her, and, pillowing her head upon her arm, exchanged the waking for a sleeping dream. A thick mist encompassed her when she awoke.
In the dark her eyes shone with a dull, steady lustre, unblinking, unquestioning, always unquestioning. That slumberous acquiescence, taken from all her Arab mothers, began to touch his nerves with the old uneasiness. He took her shoulders between his hands and shook her roughly, crying in a whisper: "Why dost thou do nothing but repeat my words? Talk! Say things to me!
She kept her gaze averted, and Duncan could not see her eyes they were turned toward the slumberous plains that stretched away into the distance on the other side of the river. But Duncan knew that he had scored, and was not bothered over the possibility of there being little truth in his implied charge.
Gordon drove with his mind pleasantly vacant, lulled by the monotonous miles of road flickering through his vision, the shifting forms of distant peaks, virid vistas, nearby trees and bushes, all saturated in the slumberous, yellow, summer heat.
The only thing he took the trouble to note was at a rack in front of the place where strange anachronism in a town that swarmed with shiny automobiles were tethered two slumberous, moth-eaten burros laden with heavy packs, miners' pan, pick and bedding. "Prospector?" he asked, indicating the dilapidated songsters of the desert.
It seemed so fitting a residence for one who loves to explore the twilight of antiquity and the gloomier the better that the visitor, among the felicities of whose life was included the freedom of the Manse, could not but fancy that our author's eyes first saw the daylight enchanted by the slumberous orchard behind the house, or tranquillized into twilight by the spacious avenue in front.
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