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Updated: May 26, 2025
It was summer, and the other boarders were in the country; all the servants except the cook had been dismissed, and she, when not working, slept profoundly on the fifth floor. The landlady also was out of town on a brief holiday. The window was open to admit the thick unstirring air; no sound rose from the row of long narrow yards, nor from the tall deep houses annexed.
Well, then, I won't be in anybody's way if I live with you not even a dog's. And what else did you mean when you came up and looked at me so close?" "Close? Did I?" he murmured unstirring before her in the profound darkness. "So close as that?" She had an outbreak of anger and despair in subdued tones. "Have you forgotten, then? What did you expect to find?
Be just the memory of my mother, the face, the friend I've never seen; the voice that every dream leaves echoing. Ask me to come. She sat unstirring; and then as if by some uncontrollable impulse stooped a little closer to him and laid her gloved hand on his. 'I hear, you know; I hear too, she whispered. 'But we mustn't listen. Come now. It's growing late.
"Right," she replied calmly. And to the recumbent and unstirring figure McKay gave a brief order: "Get up! Hands up!" The man rose as though made of steel springs and lifted both hands. Water still ran from his chin and lips and sweating cheeks. But McKay, resting the muzzle of his pistol against the man's abdomen, looked into a face that twitched with laughter.
"I promise," said Lingard, "to see you some day." The calm surface of the bay reflected the glorious night sky, and the brig with the prau riding astern seemed to be suspended amongst the stars in a peace that was almost unearthly in the perfection of its unstirring silence. The last hand-shakes were exchanged on deck, and the Malays went aboard their own craft.
The flight of a gull on unstirring wings when the wind buoys it, the glide of water over the descent of smooth rock, with never a ripple, like all things effortless, swift, and free, such was the gait of Satan as he fled. Let them spur the fresh horses from Caswell City till their flanks dripped red, they would never gain on him.
Though it was the last night of August, the heat was as great as ever a deep, unstirring warmth; the climbing moon shot as yet but a thin shaft here and there through the heavy foliage. They talked in low voices, unconsciously playing up to the nature of the escapade. As the moon drew up, they stole out across the garden to the music-room. Gyp lighted the candles. "Can you manage?"
One by one the others followed his example, excepting the Sagamore, who yawning with repressed excitement, picked up his rifle, mounted the abattis, and squatted there, his chin on a log, motionless and intent as a hunting cat in long grass. I joined him; and there we sat unstirring, listening, peering ahead into the mist-shot darkness, until our three hours' vigil ended.
He knew that they would be rich acres when men began to dig deeper than the hoe could scratch, and opened the veins where the coal slept its unstirring sleep. The old man had not set such store by learning as had Samson's father, and the little shaver's education ended, except for what he could wrest from stinted sources and without aid. His mission of "killing Hollmans" was not forgotten.
They left the cab and crossed the Row; passed the end of the Long Water, up among the trees. There, on two chairs covered by Winton's coat, they sat side by side. No dew was falling yet; the heavy leaves hung unstirring; the air was warm, sweet-smelling. Blotted against trees or on the grass were other couples darker than the darkness, very silent.
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