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'Your friend is in low spirits, said Böhme, who was installed on a seat beside me, voluminously caped and rugged against the biting air. It was a still, sunless day. 'So am I, I grunted, and it was the literal truth. I was only half awake, felt unwashed and dissipated, heavy in head and limbs. But for Davies I should never have been where I was.
September 13th. The weather was very uncertain through the last week, and yesterday morning, too, was misty and sunless; notwithstanding which we took the rail for Kenilworth before eleven.
Had my lot, when she left me, been still the steepings of bitterness, the stings of penury, the moody silence of hope, the damp and chill of sunless and aidless years, which rust the very iron of the soul away; had my lot been thus, as it had been, I could have borne her death, I could have looked upon her grave, and wept not, nay, I could have comforted my own struggles with the memory of her escape; but thus, at the very moment of prosperity, to leave the altered and promising earth, 'to house with darkness and with death; no little gleam of sunshine, no brief recompense for the agonizing past, no momentary respite between tears and the tomb.
Long after we quitted them we heard their heavy firing, and could distinguish between the loud and solid "Bang!" of the muskets and the sharper, whip-lash crack of the long rifles. The territory that now lay before us was a dense and sunless wilderness, save for the forest openings made by rivers, lakes, and streams.
Fool! what was he to them? The man's face grew slowly pale, as that of a savage or an animal does, when the wound is deep and inward. The November day was dead, sunless: since morning the sky had had only enough life in it to sweat out a few muddy drops, that froze as they fell: the cold numbed his mouth as he breathed it.
But, one evening, about this time, Hollins struck upon a variation, the consequences of which he little foresaw. "'Ah, Behind the Veil! We see the summer smile of the Earth, enamelled meadow and limpid stream, but what hides she in her sunless heart? Caverns of serpents, or grottoes of priceless gems?
The Gulf of Georgia, the Straits of Fuca, and Queen Charlotte Sound are the words upon the lips of everybody. Shades of my schoolboy days! How much sweeter they taste here than in the old geography class! Before us stretches a wilderness of islands, mostly uninhabited, which penetrates even into the sunless winter and the shadowless summer of Behring Sea.
His very existence the sense of a sunless, dreary, cold-winded desert, he was evermore confronted, in all his resolves after betterment, by the knowledge that with the first eager mouthful of the strange element, a rosy dawn would begin to flush the sky, a mist of green to cover the arid waste, a wind of song to ripple the air, and at length the misery of the day would vanish utterly, and the night throb with dreams.
Groping for a word, she pushed aside her writing and stared out at the sallow frozen landscape framed by the window at which she sat. The sleet had ceased, and hollows of sunless blue showed through the driving wind-clouds. A hard sky and a hard ground frost-bound ringing earth under rigid ice-mailed trees.
"Of all the squirmy, snaky, gloomy, airless, sunless, moist, decaying masses of misery, I think this is the worst." "It is, Dick; it is. There's not a butterfly even." "Thunder! It's raining fire! No; it's an ant S It's raining ants, by gum!" "You ass, you've hooked the bill into a nest. There that round, black thing like a football. They're running up the bill-hook."
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