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No angel's countenance, but warmest human clay, which must undergo some change before reaching heaven. The sphinx, before the gloom of her riddle had dimmed her primal joy, before men vexed themselves to unravel God's webs from without instead of from within, might have looked thus; or such perhaps was Isis in the first flush of her divinity, fresh from Him who made her immortally young and fair.
Herter is often there, it seems. Besides, Gerbéviller was the principal end and aim of our day's excursion. Once no more than a pleasant town of quiet beauty on a pretty river, now it is a monument historique, the Pompeii of Lorraine. As we arrived the sun clouded over suddenly, and the effect was almost theatrical. From gold the light had dimmed to silver.
The tale was told to Nazareth's sober men, And Nazareth's matrons told it oft again; The maids retold it at the fountain's side; The youthful shepherds doubted or denied; It passed around among the listening friends, With all that fancy adds and fiction fends, Till newer marvels dimmed the young renown Of Joseph's son, who talked the Rabbis down.
Nevertheless, though, as the days passed, the glory of her hair dimmed perceptibly for him and in a year of separation might have departed completely, the six weeks held many abominable days.
We looked through the glass orifice of his machine, while he exhibited a succession of the very worst scratches and daubings that can be imagined, worn out, too, and full of cracks and wrinkles, dimmed with tobacco-smoke, and every other wise dilapidated. There were none in a later fashion than thirty years since, except some figures that had been cut from tailors' show-bills.
Athos smiled, and his fine eye was dimmed by a tear. D'Artagnan, who had loved him so tenderly, loved him still, although a Mazarinist. "There are the fifty louis, i'faith," said Aramis, emptying the purse on the table, all bearing the effigy of Louis XIII. "Well, what shall you do with this money, count? Shall you keep it or send it back?"
"Buy it thou didst not, Paullus, I’ll be sworn; and I think it was never given thee; and, see, see here, what is this I—there has been blood on the blade!" "Folly!" exclaimed the young man, turning first very red and then pale, so that his comrades gazed on him with wonder, "folly, I say. It is not blood, but water that has dimmed its shine;—and how knowest thou that I did not buy it?"
That which had seemed a mist now appeared more like a fine dust, that swept across the heavens and dimmed the desert sky. It occurred to him that he was at the bottom of a fairly deep cañon and that that impalpable dust meant wind, A little later he heard it, at first a faint, far-away sound like the whisper of many voices; then a soft, steady hiss as when wind-driven sand runs over sand.
It was as though scales which had dimmed his mental vision had partially dropped away, for suddenly he saw what he had not before seen a very beautiful girl, brave and unflinching before the brutal menace of his attitude, and though the mucker thought that he still hated her, the realization came to him that he must not raise a hand against her that for the life of him he could not, nor ever again against any other woman.
"Lansing Treadwell, swear to me, that you will leave her soul to her own keeping until " Treadwell gave him a long, steady look. "I swear!" he said. "When her hour comes to understand and choose let her be white and pure as she is now!" "I swear it, Sandy Morley." "Then," and now Sandy's eyes dimmed, "good-bye, little Cyn.
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