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Updated: June 24, 2025
A dozen willing fingers quickly unknotted the rope and the bag was slipped from the head and body. Hair and face and eyebrows and clothes were powdered with meal, but, in spite of all and through all the innocent whiteness, dark spots and blotches and smears of blood showed upon head and arm and shirt.
Then he heard from within the muffled creak of a bed, heavy steps across the floor. The door opened with a jerk; Gerald stood there, eyes swollen, hair in disorder, his collar crushed, and the white evening tie unknotted and dangling over his soiled shirt-front. "Hello," said Selwyn simply; "may I come in?"
Now, mounting a ridge toward which he had been pressing forward the past hour, which had appeared a hill of consequence in the distance, but now flattened out to nothing more than a small local divide, he put down his bag, flung his dusty black hat beside it, and stood wiping his face with a large turkey-red handkerchief which he unknotted from about his neck.
And as Blackton pointed out the mountain she unknotted the veil under her chin and let it drop back over her shoulders, so that the last light of the day fell richly in the trembling curls and thick coils of her hair. "And that is my reward," said John Aldous, but he whispered it to himself.
Reuben stood with waiting hands while the old man unknotted the strings at the mouth of the green baize bag, and all eyes watched Ezra's lean fingers. At the instant when the knot was conquered and the mouth of the bag slid open, Ruth's clear voice was heard calling, "Father, here's Aunt Rachel! Come this way, Aunt Rachel. We're going to have a little music."
Ruth slipped into the bow seat with her oar, and Uncle Jabez took stroke. The girl unknotted the painter, and the boat drifted out from the landing. "Now, set yer feet square, an' pull!" ejaculated her uncle, thrusting the blade of his own oar beneath the rippling surface. They were heavy ash oars one was all the girl really could manage.
A movement of departure was made in the vessel: the captain seized the helm, a sailor took up an axe to cut the hawser to cut is an evidence of haste; when there is time it is unknotted. "Andamos," said, in a low voice, he who appeared chief of the six, and who had the spangles on his tatters. The child rushed towards the plank in order to be the first to pass.
The Texan unknotted the silk muffler from about his neck and folded it. "If it is just the same to you," the pilgrim asked, in a voice that held firm, "will you leave that off?" Without a word the muffler was returned to its place. "Throw the rope over that limb the big one that sticks out this way," ordered the Texan, and a cowpuncher complied.
There was a sense of peace for her in finding these threads of her life unknotted, smooth and simple, lying ready to her hand. When she saw Augustine at lunch he said that he had met Lady Elliston. "She was riding with Marjory and her girl." "Oh, she is back, then." Amabel was grateful to him for his everyday tone. "What is Lady Elliston's girl like?"
Why did I take that comb with a shudder, and why did I hold in my hands her long black hair that gave my skin a frightful cold sensation, as though I were handling snakes? I cannot tell. "That sensation has remained in my fingers, and I still tremble in recalling it. "I combed her hair. I handled, I know not how, those icy locks. I twisted, knotted, and unknotted, and braided them.
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