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Updated: May 27, 2025
Was it, perhaps, she now asked herself, the very lifting of the cloud remote, unthreatening as it had been which gave such new serenity to her heaven? It was horrible to think that one's deepest security was a mere sense of escape that happiness was no more than a reprieve. The perversity of such ideas was emphasized by Peyton's approach.
If they were not all we had imaged, sailing to them, yet were they men, and unthreatening, novel, very interesting to us with their island and their marvelous blue water. All was heightened by sheer joy of landing, and of finding finding something! And what we found was not horrible nor deathful, but bright, promising, scented like first fruits. To them we found we were gods!
There were moments, too, when their intercourse was still more subtle, and now they sat without exchange of glance or gesture, silent as chess players, looking up the narrow water into a sunset exquisite in the delicacy of its silvery plumes, fleeces pink and dusk, and illimitable distances of palest green seen through fan-rays of white light shot down from one dark, unthreatening cloud.
It remained only to haunt him vaguely, to join with the shade of Mary Ellen the Cruel to set misery on a life which he had thought happily assured. The land lay trusting and defenceless under a cynical sky, which was unthreatening but mocking.
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