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Updated: June 20, 2025
He did not see the lonely figure sitting there before the hearth, but turned aside ere he neared it and entered an unlighted room, shutting himself gently in. Again the silence descended, but only for a few seconds. Then softly it was dispelled, as through it there stole the tender, passionate-sweet harmonies of a Chopin nocturne.
Darkness had nearly come, and the unlighted music-room was lapped in a pleasant twilight, broken only by the faint gleam from the candles, which entered through the open doorway. The odor of the incense was everywhere; and the mystic scent and warmth of the inner air contrasted well with the shrieking of the demon-ridden wind outside the house. The atmosphere perfectly suited Ivan's state of mind.
Olive had moaned at intervals, in a delirium of fever. The seaman, who had been the man on watch when the "Starlight" struck the unlighted derelict, had cursed intermittently at the cause of the disaster. "Why didn't they show a blasted light?" he kept on repeating with obstinate illogicality. "Why didn't the fools show a blasted light?" "Old man Larssen will give you hell when we get to shore."
The returned tenant himself opened the door to her, a tall figure looming in the dusk of an unlighted corridor a tall figure infinitely dear to Sue Breckenridge. "O Don!" cried the visitor in an accusing tone. "How could you come back without letting us know?" "I've been back only an hour," explained Donald Brown, submitting to and warmly returning his sister's embrace.
It had got to be late by this time, and the lonely castel looked crepuscular and mysterious. An old house- keeper was sent for, who showed me the rambling interior; and then the young man took me into a dim old drawing-room, which had no less than four chimney-pieces, all unlighted, and gave me a refec- tion of fruit and sweet wine.
The day had been unusually warm, and the family were all gathered on the front porch in the dusk. The lamps within were unlighted, and the evening wind blew the white muslin curtains out and in through the opened windows. The porch was low, only a step from the ground, and the grass of the dooryard felt soft and cool to the bare feet of the children.
There was another silence in which Jerry puffed on his unlighted pipe. "You know I've invited Una and her mother up here this week and what's better still, they're coming." This was excellent news. To me it meant that Una thought the boy worth saving from himself and now proposed to carry the war into the enemy's country. "I'm delighted," I said briefly. "So am I," he returned thoughtfully.
Even in winter and at night the terrace was cheerful, with its variety of striped and coloured blinds and curtains at the illuminated windows; and where blinds and curtains were undrawn and the little front rooms left unlighted, the firelight flickering within on shining bookcases and picture frames was no less pleasantly suggestive.
Therefore, our guide, taking one of the lamps, led us along a number of narrow unlighted passages, threading the maze with perfect knowledge of its intricacies until, opening a door, we found ourselves in a small stone prison-chamber.
Any trickle of oversea trade that passes yet that way must be creeping along cautiously with the unlighted, war-blighted black coast close on one hand, and sudden death on the other.
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