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And there was nothing strained about it, which was a good thing, as Elisabeth was too light-hearted to stand any strain for long; the old comradeship still existed between them, giving breadth to a love which the new relationship had made so deep. And it was very wonderful to Christopher, also, to find himself in the sunshine at last after so many years of shadowland.
I had eaten nothing for nearly forty hours, and perhaps the great shock which chance had given me had brought me near to the blank shadowland which is death. I remember that in some vague way there arose before me a desire to die. It was not to be suicide my religion saved me from that but death by exhaustion, by continuing to abstain from food, having no desire for it.
Tramcars and motorbuses were packed unwholesomely with these children of shadowland drawn together from the seven seas by the magnet of London. She glanced at Pyne, but he was seemingly lost in abstraction, and Kilfane appeared to be asleep.
The long range of cone-shaped mountains, darkly silhouetted against the silvery sky, and seemingly hushed in gaping expectancy; the shining, scaly surface of some far-off tarn or river, perceptible only at intervals, owing to the thick clusters of gently nodding pines; the white-washed walls of cottages, glistening amid the dark green denseness of the thickly leaved box trees, and the light, feathery foliage of the golden laburnum; the undulating meadows, besprinkled with gorse and grotesquely moulded crags of granite; the white, the dazzling white roads, saturated with moonbeams; all all were overwhelmed with stillness the stillness that belongs, and belongs only, to the mountains, and trees, and plains the stillness of shadowland.
In a general way there could be no question but that she could count on the loyalty of those who lived there; but there were always those upon whom one could never count, those who were dead to all sense of loyalty, and alive only to selfish gain and interest a human trait that, all too unfortunately, was not confined to those alone who lived in that shadowland outside the law.
Not a Doomsman set out upon his long journey to the shadowland but that a Southron was forced to bear him company. It was well done a good fight, the sword-point driven home, and then the dropping of the curtain. Hail! a hail! to our brothers who have passed beyond." A few wavering and uncertain voices took up the cry, but it quickly died away before the uplifted hand of Prosper, the priest.
Far away in Shadowland Josiah heard those words, "There lived no greater gentleman." And if he did they fell like balm on his sad soul. It was eighteen months after this before they met again Hector and Theodora; and now it was May, and the flowers bloomed and the birds sang, and all the world was young and fair only Morella Winmarleigh was growing into a bitter old maid.
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