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His life was one long conversation with the invisible divine, expressing itself through individuals and particulars: "So nigh is grandeur to our dust, so near is God to man!" I spoke of how shrunken the wraith, how thin the echo, of men is after they are departed? Emerson's wraith comes to me now as if it were but the very voice of this victorious argument.
A change came then, for the clouds had also been moving and the moon at last was sensed behind them not as a radiance, but as a percolation of light, a gleam that was strained through matter after matter and was less than the very wraith or remembrance of itself; a thing seen so narrowly, so sparsely, that the eye could doubt if it was or was not seeing, and might conceive that its own memory was re-creating that which was still absent.
Then once more he fell to pacing; and as he walked that weary space, up and down, he muttered to himself with words we cannot understand. After a certain time, Rrisa came silently back, sliding into the soft dusk of that room almost like a wraith. He bore a silver tray with a hook-nosed coffee-pot of chased metal. The cover of this coffee-pot rose into a tall, minaret-like spike.
But I let him go, unstirring, my eyes riveted upon the other shape, seated there like some grey wraith upon a giant's tombstone, under the high stars. Beyond the ferns I saw the shadow of the Sagamore against the stream pass toward our camp.
When he left his office about two o'clock the next day to learn his fate, he had not walked five blocks before he discovered that the wraith of the Duncans had withdrawn his opposition to the suit. There was no feeling of impending evil, no resistance, no struggle, no consciousness of an opposing presence. Eliphalet was greatly encouraged.
"If one had to choose between that sturdy boy and this wistful wraith, it would be hard," she thought. "All my pride would run out to the boy, but I could die for love and pity if this suffering baby were mine!" Lavendar had turned, and leaned on the wall with averted face. "Sweet woman!" he was saying to himself.
So busily engaged was he in this work that he paid not attention to what was taking place around him, and consequently did not see the shadowy figure that came flitting from tree to tree like a wraith of the great pinelands, finally reaching the oak against which Eli had leaned his gun.
He had put up his pipe, and was beginning drearily to feel the necessity of going back to his study, and applying himself if he could force his will so far to some official business that lay waiting for him there, when a light noise on the gravel caught his ear. His heart leapt. "Laura!" She stopped a white wraith in the light mist that filled the garden.
Or did he leave thee here but now to search for simples?" Robin-a-dale looked from one to the other, great eyes shining in a thin, brown face. "Three years," he said, "three years since we crept away from Ferne House in a ship that was called that was called that was called the Sea Wraith. But no trumpets sounded, and there was no throng to shout farewell. Why was that?
"I will cut her as she deserves to be cut," he thought. "She shall never know that I care." And so they passed, never to meet in this world each always wishing, each defying, each folding a wraith of beauty to the heart. There appears to be in metaphysics a basis, or no basis, according as the temperament and the experience of each shall incline him, for ethical or spiritual ease or peace.
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