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The lights and shadows in our half-darkened room, which at other times suggest strange resemblances to my fancy, failed to disturb me now. I was in a darkness of my own making, having bound a handkerchief, cooled with water, over my hot eyes. There was nothing to interfere with the soothing influence of the dose that I had taken, if my father's medicine would only help me. I began badly.
Ruth had not taken the Point Pleasant dances seriously, but as day on day she stifled in a half-darkened flat that summer, she sometimes sobbed at the thought of the moon-path on the sea, the reflection of lights on the ball-room floor, the wavelike swish of music-mad feet. The flat was hot, dead. The summer heat was unrelenting as bedclothes drawn over the head and lashed down.
I started to enter one of these, where some kind of a meeting was in progress, but I was thrust back by a great fellow who grinned foolishly and said: "Pardon, Herr Captain, it is forbidden you." Through half-darkened streets, I again passed by the bunk-shelved sleeping chambers with their cavernous aisles walled with orderly rows of lockers.
I had scarlet fever when I was five years old, and my mother had nursed me through it, and when I was weary and fretful she would sing to me my pretty fair-haired mother. Even as I sat before my easel I could see her, as she sat at the foot of my bed, with the sunshine streaming upon her through the half-darkened window, and making her look, to my boyish imagination, like a beautiful angel.
They glanced towards the corner, buttoned their coats, and plunged out again into the fog. The half-darkened café was soon empty; only some of Alphonse's nearest friends stood in a group and whispered. The doctor was talking with the proprietor, who had now appeared on the scene. The waiters stole to and fro making great circuits to avoid the dark corner.
He followed her up the broad staircase into the half-darkened drawing-room, where Drew was waiting to give her the important message from his father. "Yes," thought the boy; "it will be a letter of instructions what he is to do, for they have, I feel certain now, made some plan for his escape. But what?"
Some one out front was giggling. She galloped round to the left wing, herself pulled the switch, looked so ferociously at Kennicott that he quaked, and fled back. Mrs. Dyer was creeping out on the half-darkened stage. The play was begun. And with that instant Carol realized that it was a bad play abominably acted. Encouraging them with lying smiles, she watched her work go to pieces.
I have watched him come into a half-darkened room and one can see nothing but the hands and the eyes; sometimes if he closes his eyes, only the hands." "Mrs. Rheinholdt!" Quest muttered. "Wait. I know where that suit is." He hastened to a cupboard at the farther end of the room, snatched some garments from it and vanished into the hall. "One moment, girls," he said. "I see now how he did it. Wait.
They glanced towards the corner, buttoned their coats, and plunged out again into the fog. The half-darkened cafe was soon empty; only some of Alphonse's nearest friends stood in a group and whispered. The doctor was talking with the proprietor, who had now appeared on the scene. The waiters stole to and fro, making great circuits to avoid the dark corner.
You know it was always you as I thought most of, and I want to keep you by me I do, Clara. You won't speak about goin' away? She remained mute. Shadows from the firelight rose and fell upon the walls of the half-darkened room. It was a cloudy morning; every now and then a gust flung rain against the window. 'If you went, he continued, huskily, 'I should be afraid myself. I haven't told you.
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