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Updated: June 11, 2025
No, indeed no," the poor lady cried, with rather anguished sincerity. Then making a fine effort over herself: "Least of all where you are concerned, my darling." And she drifted hastily on to her feet. The curtains were still undrawn; and, through the window opposite, she caught sight of a tall figure coming up across the lawn in the frosty twilight. "Pardon me if I run away.
God himself, for his own wise purposes, has more than once undrawn the impenetrable veil which shrouds those awful secrets; and, for purposes just as wise, he has decreed that, except in these instances, ignorance shall be our lot for ever.
They were in a small bedroom similar to Hilda's own; but the bed was stripped, the square of carpet rolled, the blind undrawn, and the curtains looped up from the floor. He put the candle on the tiny iron mantelpiece, and sat on the bed, his hands in his pockets.
But greater many and many a time Some pale-faced fellow who dies in shame, And lets God finish the thought sublime. And great is the man with the sword undrawn, And good is the man who refrains from wine, But the man who fails and who still fights on, Lo! he is the twin brother of mine. Selected.
Upon its back was a palanquin of dark-red stuff, with a roof of stuff stretched upon strong, curved sticks, and curtains which could be drawn or undrawn at pleasure. The desert men crowded about it like eager phantoms in the wind, half seen in the driving mist of sand. Clinging to Androvsky's arm, Domini struggled forward to the camel.
I will endeavour to remove their fears. So saying, he called aloud, 'We are friends, who ask shelter from the night. In a few moments, steps were heard within, which approached, and a voice then enquired 'Who calls? 'Friends, repeated the Count; 'open the gates, and you shall know more. Strong bolts were now heard to be undrawn, and a man, armed with a hunting spear, appeared.
He thought to use all precautions on his side in drawing the curtains, when, on the contrary, he would have done better had he left them undrawn. Without doubt the widow of the attorney would have been a witness of a part of the scene, but in the shadow she would not have distinguished his features as she was able to do when he placed himself before the window under the light.
The door was open, the bed unslept upon, the window-curtains undrawn; in fact, the room was tenantless, Connor a liar and an accomplice, and the suspicions of himself and Malcomson well founded. He then followed Connor to the kitchen; but she too had disappeared, or at least hid herself from him.
Covenant's iron-shod feet rang sharply, in spite of my care, upon the cobblestones, but looking back I saw that the blinds of my faithful friend's room were undrawn, and that all seemed quiet in the house. I shook my bridle, therefore, and rode at a brisk trot through the silent streets, which were still strewn with faded flowers and gay with streamers.
The pictures, magnificently framed, each bore labels on which was read in black letters on a gold ground: Rubens Dance of fauns and nymphs Rembrandt Interior of a dissecting room. The physician van Tromp instructing his pupils. In all, there were one hundred and fifty pictures, varnished and dusted. Some were covered with green baize curtains which were not undrawn in presence of young ladies.
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