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"Hush! you will wake Raby," he said, and still held her firmly, looking unpityingly down into her face. "You do love me, Hetty," he whispered triumphantly. The front stick on the fire broke, fell in two blazing upright brands to right and left, and cast a sudden flood of light on the two figures in the door-way. Sally and Raby slept on.
It may be all the more so because it is democratic, even the Sabbath and its duties being no longer exalted above the other holy days. What sort of men does the century need for all this work it has to do? We may be sure that it will choose its own, and those who cannot serve it will be cast aside unpityingly.
Oh, the silence of all shining ones! Many suns circle in desert space: to all that is dark do they speak with their light but to me they are silent. Oh, this is the hostility of light to the shining one: unpityingly doth it pursue its course. Unfair to the shining one in its innermost heart, cold to the suns: thus travelleth every sun.
But, for all the eagerness with which her terror-stricken eyes would search the stars, these looked down indifferently, unpityingly, impersonally, as if they were so inured to the sight of sorrow that they were now careless of any pain they witnessed. Then, with a pang at her heart, she would wonder if Perigal were also awake and were thinking of her.
But even in his fear the apostate Presbyterian was unrelenting, unpityingly harsh; he published in his manifesto no promise of pardon, no inducement to submission. Meantime the insurgents proceeded on their way. At Carsphairn they were deserted by Captain Gray, who, doubtless in a fit of oblivion, neglected to leave behind him the coffer containing Sir James's money.
The whole countryside, dressed in their best, filled the courtyard. Jeanne and Julien walked through the copse and then up the slope and, without speaking, gazed out at the sea. The air was cool, although it was the middle of August; the wind was from the north, and the sun blazed down unpityingly from the blue sky.
Madeleine started, looked in his face in alarm; for the first time, the suspicion that he had divined her secret, flashed upon her. But Maurice went on unpityingly, "You refused him your hand because you thought it base ingratitude to those relatives who had sheltered you in your orphan and unprotected condition, and who had other, as they supposed, higher views for him.
"Hush! you will wake Raby," he said, and still held her firmly, looking unpityingly down into her face. "You do love me, Hetty," he whispered triumphantly. The front stick on the fire broke, fell in two blazing upright brands to right and left, and cast a sudden flood of light on the two figures in the doorway. Sally and Raby slept on.
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