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Updated: June 5, 2025
In the morning he had had fair luck, but now nothing.... The water showed no more diamonds, the lower slopes of the converging hills grew a deep and slumbrous green. Above was the gold, shoulder and crest powdered with it, unearthly, uplifted. Strickland ceased his fishing.
Obedient to the slumbrous mandate, Lad turned and pattered mournfully away. But, he was not content to return to his own nap, with that terror-cry of Lady's echoing in his ears. And he made a second attempt to get out. At each side of the piano, in the music room, was a long French window. Often, by day, Lad used to pass in or out of these door-like windows.
They flash, and are quenched, and flash again, light darting to light along the level surface, while the sailing planets and the stars look down complacent at this mimicry of heaven. Everything above, around, beneath, is very beautiful the slumbrous woods, the snowy fells, and the far distance painted in faint blue upon the tender background of the sky.
Over and over again that voice breaks in upon the slumbrous torpor of Israel and smites the dead souls of priests and people alike. Now it is a Balaam, now it is an Elijah, a David, an Isaiah, a John the Baptist, a Paul the Apostle, a Peter the Hermit, a Savonarola, a Huss, a Whitefield, a Wesley, a Frederick Maurice, a Frederick Robertson, a Phillips Brooks. Do not mistake me.
Then in an instant, down, down through the hamlet, with its châlets, stables, pumps, and logs, the slumbrous hamlet, where one dog barked, and darkness dwelt upon the path of ice, down with the tempest of a dreadful speed, that shot each rider upward in the air, and made the frame of the toboggan tremble down over hillocks of hard frozen snow, dashing and bounding, to the river and the bridge.
"You could be my guardian angel, Alma," said the young man, making his eyes more and more slumbrous and dreamy. "Stuff! I hope I have a soul above buttons!" He smiled, as she rose, and followed her across the room. "Good-night; Mr. Beaton," she said. Miss Woodburn and Fulkerson came in from the other room. "What! You're not going, Beaton?" "Yes; I'm going to a reception. I stopped in on my way."
The smell of the newspaper of to-day and of yesterday, and of a year ago, stood in the air; through an open door she saw the dusty, uneven edges of files of them, piled on the floor. Three or four messengers squatted beside the wall, with slumbrous heads between their knees.
But an incident took place, which, for a time, dashed his hopes to the ground, and covered him with mortification and confusion. The day, as we have already intimated, was unusually hot, even for the month of June. As the hours advanced, a sultry and slumbrous silence filled the air, which quivered with the heat.
One day towards the end of August Shelton took Antonia on the river the river that, like soft music, soothes the land; the river of the reeds and poplars, the silver swan-sails, sun and moon, woods, and the white slumbrous clouds; where cuckoos, and the wind, the pigeons, and the weirs are always singing; and in the flash of naked bodies, the play of waterlily leaves, queer goblin stumps, and the twilight faces of the twisted tree-roots, Pan lives once more.
All present sprang to their feet. "To Lotys!" Pasquin Leroy fixed a straight glance on the subject of the toast, sitting quietly at the head of the table. "To Lotys!" he repeated; "And may she always be as merciful as she is strong!" She lifted her dark-blue slumbrous eyes, and met his keen scrutinizing look. A very slight tremulous smile flickered across her lips.
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