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Updated: May 21, 2025
Yet there was an indefinable touch of romance and pathos about the tawdriness and witch-like ugliness, and an underlying identity about the crowd of Polish, Russian, German, Dutch Jewesses, mutually apathetic, and pressing forwards. Some of them had infants at their bare breasts, who drowsed quietly with intervals of ululation.
As he opened it with a key on his watch-chain, he was struck with a faint perfume that seemed to come from it, a perfume that he remembered. Was it the smell of the flower that Miss Faulkner carried, or the scent of the handkerchief with which she had wiped his cheek, or a mingling of both? Or was he under some spell to think of that wretched girl, and her witch-like flower?
Now, in childhood Blanche had just one of those faces that might become very lovely in youth, and would yet quite justify the suspicion that it might become gryphonesque, witch-like, and grim. Yes, Blanche, it is perfectly true! Steps one's sense of hearing grows so quick in the Bushland! steps, though as light as ever brushed the dew from the harebell!
To make you understand my next yarn, I must go back to the date of my introduction to Hilda. "It is witchcraft!" I said the first time I saw her, at Le Geyt's luncheon-party. She smiled a smile which was bewitching, indeed, but by no means witch-like, a frank, open smile with just a touch of natural feminine triumph in it.
Her eyes, too, were wonderfully pretty, and her small, pointed chin, and her witch-like imperious ways. Was it her money, the sense that she could do as she liked with most people, that made her so domineering and masterful? Very likely. On the journey he had put it down just to a natural and very surprising impudence. That was when he believed that she was a teacher, earning her bread.
From this point we commanded a view of the head of the lake and the great mountain which closes and dominates it, and which now began to be illumined with a strange witch-like glow of orange and purple, while a thin mist moved slowly across it like the folds of a ghostly stage curtain preparing to rise and display the first scene of some great drama.
Thus it came to pass that one morning, about a month after Miss Ewes's arrival in her new home, Elma had run in with a message from her mother, and found the distinguished composer, as was often the case at that time of day, sitting dreamily at her piano, trying over on the gamut strange, fanciful chords of her own peculiar witch-like character. The music waxed and waned in a familiar lilt.
She laughed into my face, witch-like, and we turned down the road. When I awoke, the morning after this episode, I found the house darkened with deep, soft snow, which had blown against the large west windows, covering them with a screen.
I'm sure you must have witnessed some strange things when you visited your grandmother at Malkin Tower that, if I mistake not, is the name of her abode? and a fearful and witch-like name it is; you must have heard frequent mutterings and curses, spells, charms, and diabolical incantations beheld strange and monstrous visions listened to threats uttered against people who have afterwards perished unaccountably."
It was impossible not to recall De Foe's couplet as applied to this witch-like creature: "God never had a house of prayer But Satan had a chapel there." If she had been young and pretty one might have endured the farce, but the woman was positively hideous, old, and wrinkled.
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