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"Oh, that reminds me," she exclaimed, "there's a letter for you from him. It's in my desk." She went to get it and as her employer's gaze followed her his eyes widened and his face grew ashen. "My God!" he muttered, and there was consternation in his whispered tone. Then sudden anger flashed over him.
Gradually the space widened, and as we neared the cedars, a sharply defined, deep canyon separated us. We heard Don open up, then Sounder. Ranger left the trail he was trying to work out in the thick sage, and bounded in the direction of the rest of the pack. We reined in to listen. First Don, then Sounder, then Jude, then one of the pups bayed eagerly, telling us they were hunting hard.
Where the porch abruptly widened to a kind of upper terrace, like a hanging garden set with flowering trees, three high archways opened to an apartment whose bright lights streamed across the grass-plots. St. George felt something tug at his heart, something that urged him forward and caught him up in an ecstasy of triumph and hope fulfilled.
No doubt, or after any great storm or "cloud-burst" among the peaks beyond; but all was dry as a bone now. It was sure to become dark early in such a chasm as that, and there was no telling how much need there might be for seeing the way. On went the young explorer until he came to a point where the chasm suddenly widened.
Her slow smile widened, and her gray eyes met his still more knowingly. Orde seized the coat and her hand at the same time. "Jane, you're a trump," said he. "No wonder you're the most popular girl in town." "Of course I am, Jack," she agreed indolently. She entered the parlour. The candy pulling was a success.
As the close of the extra session approached, the breach between President Tyler and the Whig party was widened, and those who had elected him saw their hopes blasted, and the labors of the campaign lost, by his ambitious perfidy. Nearly all of his nominations for office were promptly rejected, and those who for place had espoused his cause found themselves disappointed.
"No: not so. Say it exactly, after me." They held a hurried catechism in the dark. "There," sighed Wutzler, at last, "that is as much as we can hope. Do not forget. They will pass you through hidden ways. But you are very rash. It is not too late to go home." Receiving no answer, he sighed more heavily, and gave a complicated knock. Bars clattered within, and a strip of dim light widened.
The horizon that had widened with such glory for one night, had closed round them again like an iron wall. Betsey was alarmed and excited by her sister's uncharacteristic behavior, and she looked at her anxiously from time to time. Hannah had become the harder-faced of the two.
But these things only paved the way to the final cause of distrust the fashion of the man himself. He was unprepossessing in every line. His thin, pale face widened rapidly, like a top, to a broad and shining pate, which looked not so much bald as half naked below its sparse covering of reddish hair. His eyes were glimmering and of an indeterminate colour.
Though Keith did not know it till later, the little rift within the lute, that he had felt, but had not understood, that first evening when he dined at Norman's house, had widened, and Norman's life was beginning to be overcast with the saddest of all clouds. Miss Abigail's keen intuition had discovered the flaw. Mrs. Wentworth had fallen a victim to her folly.
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