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Updated: May 26, 2025
But there was the sad difficulty of getting into it. She had as great a dread of the air as some children have of the water. For the slightest gust of wind would blow her away; and a gust might arise in the stillest moment.
't is the stillest hour of night, The Moon sheds down her palest light, And sleep has chained the lake and hill, The wood, the plain, the babbling rill; And where yon ivied lattice shows My fair one slumbers in repose. Come, ye that know the lovely maid, And help prepare the serenade. Hither, before the night is flown, Bring instruments of every tone.
Left alone, Frances Freeland took her bag a noticeably old one, without any patent clasp whatever, so that she could open it went noiselessly upstairs, tapped on Derek's door, and went in. A faint but cheerful voice remarked: "Halloo, Granny!" Frances Freeland went up to the bed, smiled down on him ineffably, laid a finger on his lips, and said, in the stillest voice: "You mustn't talk, darling!"
Not that they ever spoke to him, he said, but they always made a friendly gesture nodding a stately head, waving a strong hand, or sending him a waft of cool air as they went by, a waft that would come to him through the fiercest hurricane as well as through the stillest calm.
How she longed for the common and the fields and the woods, where the very essence of life seemed to dwell in the atmosphere even when stillest, and the joy that came pouring from the throats of the birds seemed to flow first from her own soul into them! The very streets and lanes of Testbridge looked like paradise to Mary in Lon-don.
But I'll not leave you, Catriona; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if I should fail or fash you." She crept closer in to me by way of a reply. "Here," I said, "is the stillest place that we have hit on yet in this busy byke of a city. Let us sit down here under yon tree and consider of our course."
There are days when rowing is as toilsome and exhausting a process as is Bunyan's idea of virtue; while there are other days, like the present, when it seems a mere Oriental passiveness and the forsaking of works, just an excuse to Nature for being out among her busy things. For even at this stillest of hours there is far less repose in Nature than we imagine.
It is the stillest, most heavenly nook in Green Valley. I come up here whenever I'm tired of thinking." "Well I found this place years and years ago," Nanny complained. "What's the matter with us both using it?" he said very civilly. "But," objected Nan, "this is the sort of a place that you want all to yourself." "Yes, it is," he agreed and did not let the situation worry him further.
After July, most of our birds grow silent, and, but for the insects, August would be almost the stillest month in the year, stiller than the winter, when the woods are often vocal with the Crow, the Jay, and the Chickadee. But with patient attention one may hear, even far into the autumn, the accustomed notes.
The boy that entered the darkness and the shadow of death emerged a man, a silent man and grave, working furiously and haunting, day and night, the little window above the door. At last, of one gray morning when the earth was stillest, they came and told him, "She will live!" And he went out under the stars, lifted his long arms and sobbed: "Curse me, O God, if I let me lose her again!"
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