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Updated: June 12, 2025
It had clouded over after sunset: there was no moon visible, but an irradiance was omnipresent, and showed the muffled yew-tree walks, and the greater trees colossal, mountains overshadowing the land. Here and there, as you went, glimmered daffodils, like the Pleiades half-veiled, and long files of crocuses burned like waning fires.
Moreover, he has the saving grace of knowing how to order a good dinner and get together a good crowd." She felt the half-veiled hostility of his tone, and it cut her. She had received similar cuts before, during the past three or four months. Instead of rendering her callous, they had left a sore sensitiveness in their scars. She battled against the soreness bravely.
Nothing was to be read from her face no expression of pleasure, none of chagrin; but in her half-veiled eyes a certain brilliance was observable and her long, white fingers began softly to drum upon the table in time to the music. No explanation was demanded; in a clear, disconcerting flash, the situation was laid bare. Here was woman desiring the love of man; woman determined to reap her spoil.
I hate the sight of you I curse the day I first saw your face! Do you know what you have done, by letting me believe that you were dead? You have probably broken the heart of one who is as good and pure as you are vile and treacherous the woman whom I love and would have married." Diane's features hardened, and a sudden rage flashed in her half-veiled eyes; her repentant impulse died as quickly.
Travers near him, with half-veiled eyes, listened impassive like a presiding genius. "I wouldn't question that for a moment," conceded d'Alcacer. "A point of honour is not to be discussed. But there is such a thing as humanity, too. To be delivered up helplessly. . . ." "Perhaps!" interrupted Lingard. "But you needn't feel hopeless. I am not at liberty to give up my life for your own. Mrs.
"Oh I... that is, I asked Scotland Yard " She bestowed a swift, half-veiled glance at her interrogator, but he offered her no help, and: "They wouldn't tell me," she continued. "So I had to find out. You see, I heard you were trying to get information which I thought perhaps I could give."
Brigitte looked at me in pity. We sat down on a rock near a wild gorge and passed two entire hours there; her half-veiled eyes plunged into my soul, crossing a glance from mine; then wandered to nature, to the heavens and the valley. "Ah! my dear child," she said, "how I pity you! You do not love me." To reach that rock we had to travel two leagues; two more in returning makes four.
I learned to know her beauty; the poise of her head, the flush of her cheek, the curl of her lip, the glance yes, the glance of her eye, though that was more difficult to understand, for she had a way of drooping her lids at times that, while exceedingly effective upon the poor wretch toward whom she might be directing that half-veiled shaft of light, was anything but conducive to my purposes.
The Servant is 'taken away, 'cut off, 'stricken. Not yet is the grim word 'death' plainly uttered; that comes in the next verse, only after the Servant's death is supposed to be past. The three words suggest, at all events, though in half-veiled language, violence and suddenness in the Servant's fate. Who were the agents who took Him, cut Him off and struck Him, is left in impressive obscurity.
The men still growled as they obeyed him; but however right or wrong he was regarding Leif's motives, he was proved correct in his prophecy. Out of that moment on shore, came the good of a complete reconciliation with Eric. No more were there cold shoulders, and half-veiled gibes, and long evenings of gloomy restraint.
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