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Once or twice I fancied the mother's clear voice about the house was rarer than its wont; that her quick, active, cheerful presence penetrating every nook, and visiting every creature, as with the freshness of an April wind was this day softer and sadder; but she did not say anything to me, nor I to her.
Though she had a book in her hand, I could see that she had not been reading. The electric lamp on the table by her side was already lighted, leaving the rest of the room in shadow, for it was a grey day with a biting edge of snow in the air. It was all very charming in the soft light; but as soon as I entered I had a feeling of oppression that made me want to run out into the wind.
When the door opened there was only the lightest breath of wind, and the air was fresh and crisp, and I could smell the sun. One sense less, more degree of power to the other senses. The sun warms the air, gives it a flavour, and between it and the light frost, which showed that it was dry outside, I got the smell of a fine Fall day.
'Shut the door, whispered Fagin from the end of the passage. As he spoke, it closed with a loud noise. 'That wasn't my doing, said the other man, feeling his way. 'The wind blew it to, or it shut of its own accord: one or the other. Look sharp with the light, or I shall knock my brains out against something in this confounded hole. Fagin stealthily descended the kitchen stairs.
Since their arrival at Katmai the weather had continued calm; and although the view they had through the frowning headlands showed the Straits black and angry, they prayed that the wind would hold off for another twenty- four hours.
No wind had preceded the storm. The lightning had leapt out of a still sky still, that is, until jarred and set vibrating by the explosion.
In summer the six or eight perennial figures stood on the breezy side of the wall in winter and in rain to leeward; but no weather was known to dislodge them. 'I had no sooner come ashore than the wind began to fly round, said the previous speaker; 'and it must have been about the time they were off Old- Harry Point.
Here they sat upon the ground in a close group in the underbrush, speaking but rarely, while time passed slowly. The character of the night had not changed. The solemn wind never ceased to moan among the trees, and far off in the west the thunder yet muttered. The strokes of lightning were far between, but as before they cast a blood red tinge over forest and river.
"Wal, we've come a pooty considerable of a lick now mind I tell you. 'Tain't, of course, as good as ef the wind had ben favorable, but arter all, that thar tide was a pooty considerable of a tide, now." "How long will you anchor?" "Why, till the next tarn of tide, course." "When will that be?" "Wal, somewhar about eleven o'clock." "Eleven o'clock?" "Yes." "Why, that's almost midnight."
As soon as the helmsman's keen eyes had made sure, from the mast-head, that the Arabs had forded the river at a point to the south, they set fire to several places and it roared and flared up immediately. The wind swept it southwards, and with it clouds of pale grey smoke through which the rising sun shot shafts of light.
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