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Updated: June 17, 2025
And yet Stephens continued to believe that the Northerners did not mean what they said and that in congregated talking lay the magic which would change the world of fact into the world of his own desire. At this point in the peace intrigue the ambiguous figure of Napoleon the Little reappears, though only to pass ghostlike across the back of the stage.
She beheld with a curious interest a sight till now so unfamiliar, taking a childish pleasure in watching the great white arm of moon-rays stretch further and further across the water, changing the ripples into molten silver, and making ethereal and ghostlike every little boat that glided through them.
Lance was playing superbly, giving every note its true value; the cadence rising and falling like waves of a still sea; softer and softer; till the last note faded away, ghostlike a sigh rather than a sound. Roy remained motionless, one elbow on the mantelpiece. Thea's lashes were wet with the tears of rarefied emotion tears that neither prick nor burn.
He had stretched out the right hand of his withered faith, and lo, it had proved strong and vital. Yet as, in the heavy silence of the crypt, he heard the turning of the key in the lock, his heart stood still, and every emotion hung suspended, as the first veiled figure shadowy and ghostlike moved into view. It was not she. The Knight's pulses throbbed again.
It was not only the perfectly novel and astonishing character of his playing, but to a large extent his ghostlike appearance, which caused such absurd rumors. The tall, skeleton-like figure, the pale, narrow, wax-colored face, the long, dark, disheveled hair, the mysterious expression of the heavy eye, made a weirdly strange ensemble.
Slowly the shadows were falling about him, and to the man every shade had an entity of its own. First there trooped before him all the old memories of the many yesterdays of Peg his little dead lad and Jinnie. And lastly, ghostlike, came the shattered hopes of to-morrow, and with these he groaned and shivered. Jinnie stole in and looked long upon her friend through the iron-latticed door.
She looked ethereal, ghostlike, in her long white cloak, with a filmy hood thing drawn loosely over her shining hair. I thought her paler than usual though that might have been the effect of the electric lights overhead and her face was wistful, but very fair and sweet and innocent.
Ida followed behind him with absolute noiselessness. They were both ghostlike in their movements, and the dogs stood and watched them intently, ears erect, and with that gravity in their eyes which dogs wear when they are puzzled. The old man closed his door softly, still without any hesitation, and Ida, grasping the broad rail of the staircase, waited breathlessly.
In the storm-smitten, lonely building at the foot of the rocky slope, shivering as though with the cold, rocking crazily as though in startled fear at each gust, the roaring log fire in the open fireplace made an uncertain twilight and innumerable ghostlike shadows. The wind whistling down the chimney, making that eerie sound known locally as the voice of William Henry, came and went fitfully.
Our life is not so much threatened as our perception. Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
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