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"How now, young sir, for what crime dost thou take sanctuary?" He looked up and saw an old man in the black dress of an ecclesiastic, the keys of St Peter broidered on his arm. "Sanctuary," stammered Hilarius, "nay, good sir, I " The other laughed. "Wert thou star-gazing, then, that thou could'st stray into these precincts and know it not?
At last I saw our own gray battlements at a distance, on one side, quite out of the direction in which I was travelling, so was compelled to the grievous mortification of retracing a great many of my weary footsteps. It was a very hot day. This evening I have been on the towertop star-gazing, and looking at the comet, which waves along the sky like an immense feather of flame.
Now if I had to make another star-gazing Urania, or a Sappho full of the deity, and with eyes fixed on the heavens in poetic rapture, that is what I would put into her! She is no longer young, but how pure her face is! It is like a sky when the wind has swept it clear of clouds." "Seriously you must go now," said Arsinoe drawing away her hand, which he had again taken.
The first thing, then, was to locate the Lake of the Sun on the smoke hidden surface of the planet beneath us. This was a problem that the astronomers could readily solve. Fortunately, in the flagship itself there was one of the star-gazing gentlemen who had made a specialty of the study of Mars. That planet, as I have already explained, was now in opposition to the earth.
"It will take your mind off your impracticable star-gazing and moonshining, and divert your attention into the channels of realism.
"It's Ennison, isn't it?" he exclaimed. "What the devil are you doing star-gazing here?" Ennison looked at him in surprise. "I might return the compliment, Courtlaw," he answered, "by asking why the devil you come lurching on to the pavement like a drunken man." Courtlaw was pale and dishevelled. He was carelessly dressed, and there were marks of unrest upon his features.
Eliphalet Means, John Jennings, and Colonel Lamson had overtaken him as he stood star-gazing. They were on their way to punch and cards at Squire Merritt's. Jerome felt a hand on his shoulder, and looked up into John Jennings's long, melancholy countenance, instead of the shining face of the star.
Then I must first comfort Cousin Maud for this untoward scene, and suffer her to rub my wrists with wine and spirit of balm, forasmuch as they tingled like fire and were scratched by the hapless wight's nails. She was beside herself with rage, and the evil prediction of the master of the black arts and of star-gazing filled her with unbounded terrors.
The observation made by this officer, who, to my surprise, I subsequently found was the boatswain, brought our old police friend, the master-at-arms, on the scene. "Here, boys," said he to us, "you must bestir yourselves, and not stand star-gazing there, like so many country bumpkins at a fair!
It can't be called star-gazing, for to my certain knowledge there isn't a single star visible; in fact, I should say nothing could be visible but the darkness." For a minute Flossy made no answer. She did not move nor turn her head; but presently she said, in a low and gentle voice: "Ruth, should you be afraid to die?"
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