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Updated: May 21, 2025
There are few stiller things than the stillness of a summer's noon such as this, a summer's noon in a broken woodland, with the deer asleep in the bracken, and the twitter of birds silent in the coppice, and hardly a leaf astir in the huge beeches that fling their cool shade over the grass.
The Stiller of the Storm "It's Christmas eve at home," murmured the young lad after he had said his prayers and tumbled into his narrow berth on the great ship. "I suppose they're trimming the Christmas tree now and hanging up the stockings. I wish I were there."
The blood-spattered face was calm, and around the stiller lips there lingered a smile, as though the man had gone out in peace and unexpected contentment. Turning aside, they found the fireman, and one man from the wrecked freight, lying beside the tracks both dead. Then they went to the lengthening line along the fence. The priest bent over each recumbent form.
Sit a little nearer! There is no need for you to be afraid of me nowadays. He-he! . . . At one time, it is true, I was a cunning blade, a dog of a fellow . . . no one dared approach me; but now I am stiller than water and humbler than the grass. I have grown old, I am a family man, I have children. It's time I was dead."
Advancing still, there now, at her right hand, grew out of the landscape the noble turrets of the unfinished pile; and, close at her left, under a gnarled fantastic thorn-tree, the still lake at his feet reflecting his stiller shadow, reclined Guy Darrell, the doe nestled at his side.
"That's the trouble with you, Red. You ain't got any patience. How does a cat catch a mouse? By sitting down and waiting maybe three hours. And the hungrier she gets, the longer she'll wait and the stiller she'll sit. A man could take a good lesson out'n that." "You always got a pile of fancy words," protested the big man. Sinclair saw Fatty put his hand on the shoulder of his companion.
I was old enough to be her father, and I tried. God help me! I tried, but it was the old curse and not even the love I had for her could keep me up. But while she lived it was better. The cabin was clean and tidy and she always sang about her work. She only stopped singing toward the last when she got thinking about you she got solemner and stiller and then you came!
On stiller evenings we can fancy him there in solitude; reading meditative, or musically fluting; looking out upon the silent death of Day: how the summer gloaming steals over the moorlands, and over all lands; shutting up the toil of mortals; their very flocks and herds collapsing into silence, and the big Skies and endless Times overarching him and them.
Will you malign your native realms and reduce them to a level with the country upstairs? That is swarming with wild beasts of every description. 'But I did feel it, father. 'I tell you to hold your tongue. You are no patriot. Curdie suppressed his laughter, and lay still as a mouse but no stiller, for every moment he kept nibbling away with his fingers at the edges of the hole.
For if we follow it southward, where, like the unvanishing wake of some vessel, it streaks the level plain, that is lonely as a wide water, but stiller, we pass by Dan O'Beirne's forge, now neighbourless, and through humble Duffclane, and on to Ballybrosna, our Town; but we must go many a mile further to reach anything upon which you would bestow that title.
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