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Updated: June 20, 2025
Time was, when matrons went bare-foot with dishevel'd hair, pure minds, and pray'd him to send rain, and forthwith it rained pitcher-fulls, or then or never, and every one was pleased: Now the gods are no better than mice; as they tread, their feet are wrapt in wooll; and because ye are not superstitious your lands yield nothing."
Sometimes she even fancied the dying echo of her own shrill cry was the feeble answer of her wounded sister; and when she would pause to listen again, the valley around was wrapt in the stillness of death.
Madame's voice sounded strangely near, strangely insistent. But Anne, wrapt in what she saw, did not heed it. "Yes! He is a dozen paces in front of his men. He is underneath us now. He urges them to follow him! He towers above them! He is " She broke off; close to her sounded a heavy breathing, that even above the babel of the street caught her ear.
'There's no one, dear Miss Lily, but me. But she was looking earnestly, and, with a wrapt smile, only said 'Oh! She thought she saw her, I believe. Are these always illusions? Or is it only that, as the twilight deepens, and the shapes of earth melt into night, the stars of heaven, changeless and serene, reveal themselves, and shine out to the darkened eyes of mortals?
The evening is lovely, and two and two they gradually leave the drawing-room, to Chubby, who, his body in one chair, and his legs in another, is wrapt in peaceful slumbers. Mabel and her husband walk slowly up and down, before the house discussing their children and friends.
The last beams of day were now faintly streaming through the painted windows in the high vaults above me; the lower parts of the abbey were already wrapt in the obscurity of twilight. The chapels and aisles grew darker and darker.
How many Manifestations of Holiness, how many Revealers of the light everlasting, have appeared since the time of Moses, and yet Israel, wrapt in the densest veils of satanic fancy and false imaginings, is still expectant that the idol of her own handiwork will appear with such signs as she herself hath conceived!
Ferdinand, Ferdinand! forgive me! love save me from myself!" "Ay, now and ever! Come to my heart, beloved one!" answered her husband, rousing himself from all of personal suffering to comfort her; and he drew her to him till her head rested on his bosom. "Now tell me thy sorrowing tale, to me so wrapt in mystery. Fear not from me.
In another moment, wrapt in his coat and waistcoat, she was lying in the bottom of the boat. Alec was now as cool as any hero should be, for he was doing his duty, and had told the devil to wait a bit with his damnation. He looked all about for Tibbie, and at length spied her drowned in her bed. "So much the more chance for Annie and me!" he said. "But I wish I had been in time."
Still wrapt in his radiant sadness, Egorka looked at his mother with astonished eyes. He cried plaintively: "Mamma, what are you doing?" But, already seized by the rough hand, the little body that had been washed by the still waters began to struggle on the knees of the harshly crying woman. It was painful, and Egorka sobbed in a shrill voice.
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