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When my eyes got accustomed to the gloom, however, nothing could be more beautiful than the effect of the sun's rays, which, in forcing their way through the silvered leaves and mosses, took as many varieties of colour as if they had passed through a window of painted glass, and gave the rich, subdued, and solemn light of some old cathedral.
Esther had certainly told the old man something which had profoundly impressed him, that much was evident. He found Chalmers in the hall, on his way downstairs. Motioning him to approach, Roger spoke to him in a voice cautiously subdued. "Let me hear, Chalmers, exactly what Miss Rowe said to you when you let her in. What did you think of her how did she strike you?"
The Pratts experienced in the rare moments of their intercourse with the Newhavens some of that sublime awe, that subdued rapture, which others experience in cathedrals. Mr. Pratt had also taken a momentary pleasure in the defeat of Mr. Gresley, who did not pay him the deference which he considered due to him and his "seat." Mr.
Howard and Arthur, and no one but her father knew why it was that she was so subdued and silent. It was only on the third morning, when there came a letter from Mr. Howard saying that he was coming out that afternoon to see her, that Helen seemed to be interested and stirred again.
"You wish to see her alone," said Bessie. "Go in there and I will arrange it." He went as she directed, into a little reception-room, and there he waited while subdued feminine greetings were exchanged in the hall without. Then, at last, through the doorway came the gracious, lovely figure of the girl. "Oh," she whispered, "I knew you would come, dear I knew."
There, indeed, when she came downstairs, stood Harry, his cap in his hand, and his face serious, but with a look on it that had as much subdued joy as awe. "Dear, dear Harry! you are going with us then?" "Yes, papa wrote to ask what Mr. Wilmot thought, and he said " Harry broke off as his father advanced, and gave her the letter itself to read. Mr.
But their elders seemed subdued, and were silent. The strangers heard no sound of laughter in the streets of Dusseldorf, and they saw no smiling except on the part of a very old couple, whose meeting they witnessed and who grinned and cackled at each other like two children as they shook hands.
And yet, with a strong effort, she strove to appear cheerful, and when she spoke to her husband, it was with a forced smile and a tone of tenderness that touched and subdued his feelings; for he well understood that, in a certain sense, she was merely acting. But few words passed between them during the brief morning meal.
The air had been hot and sultry, but a light, cool breeze had sprung up, and occasional cirrus clouds overspread the sun, and for a while subdued his fierceness.
What on my first visit I had taken for resignation, for meekness, and what really was so the subdued, lustreless glance, the cold voice, the quietness and simplicity all that had significance only in relation to the past, to what would never return.... Now it was the present asserted itself. I tried to soothe Musa, tried to put our conversation on a more practical level.
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