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Updated: May 7, 2025
Then I gazed with eager desire and fear which was the stronger I scarcely knew for the yellow under-gleam, to show the safety of my treasure. There it lay, as safe as could be, massive, grand, and beautiful, with tones of varying richness as the ripples varied over it. This contemplation had upon me an effect so noble that here I resolved to spend my time, for fear of any robbery.
But under Bessy's eye she certainly was it continued to rest on her curiously, speculatively, with an under-gleam of malicious significance. "So stupid of me I can't imagine why I should have expected my husband to write to me!" Bessy went on, leaning back in lazy contemplation of her other letters, but still obliquely including Justine in her angle of vision.
Anyhow, as John saw with sinking heart, she was at the point of putting an end to their present conjunction, she was preparing to rise. When love comes in at the door, assurance as like as not will fly out of the window. So she rose unaided. "Let us hope," she said, giving him a glance in which he perceived an under-gleam as of not unfriendly mockery, "that she will soon come to know you better."
Day after day I have had you here entirely in my power! and yet and yet" here he turned his cold blue eyes upon her with an under-gleam of mockery in their steely light "you are still Innocent!" She did not move she scarcely seemed to breathe.
Her dress was sea-green silk of a rare loom, and clung closely about her. It had scales upon it of dull gold, which gave back a lustrous under-gleam of coppery red as she moved. She had a pale, eager face, lined with precision enough, but filled more with passion than womanly charm.
The aspirations of Man are limitless, hence his best assurance of immortality, ... else why should he perpetually long for things that here are impossible of attainment? ... things that like faint, floating clouds rimmed with light, suggest without declaring a glory unperceived?" Lysia looked at him steadfastly, an under-gleam of malice shining in her slumbrous eyes.
If there were a next world, my friend," and here he placed his hand familiarly on his guest's shoulder, while the bright, steel-gray under-gleam sparkled in his splendid eyes "'twould be worth dwelling in for the sake of Hyspiros, as grand a god as any of the Thunderers in the empyrean!"
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