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Slowly they paced about, chanting in low tones, and constantly accompanied by the funeral dirge of the musicians. And now to Leo's almost overtaxed vision came a picture of a lonely graveyard in the mountains, where the procession stopped. Even as he looked it faded away; the sun streamed forth, shining upon a field of grain where merry reapers swung their scythes and sang with glee.
Leo's trumpet, all the while nearly deafened by Fritz's demonstrations, which even outran Mr. Laycock's. When at last they died away she said to Leo: "We are going on to the Elwyns. Shall you be there?" He stood over her, while Mrs. Ulford watched him, drooping her head sideways. "Yes." "We can talk it all over quietly. Fritz!" "What's that about the Elwyns?" said Lord Holme. "I was telling Mr.
When the whole party was re-assembled the hour was so late, and they had all been so thoroughly excited, that no one felt inclined to sleep again. It was resolved, therefore, at once to commence the operations of a new day. Butterface was set to prepare coffee, and the Eskimos began breakfast with strips of raw blubber, while steaks of Leo's bear were being cooked.
A crimson tide overflowed Leo's cheeks, but accepting the cue of silence, she refrained from any manifestation of previous acquaintance; and bending over the pictures, listened to the grave, sweet voice that briefly, though courteously answered all inquiries concerning the school, hours of classes, tuition fees, remunerative rates paid for designs for carpets, wall papers and decorative upholstering.
As to the sea-birds, curiosity seemed to have overcome fear, for they came circling and wheeling overhead in clouds so dense that they almost darkened the sky many of them swooping close past the Eskimos and then shearing off and up with wild cries. An idea suddenly flashed into Leo's head. The result was as he had expected.
The light fell full on his fine figure, which rose above all surrounding personages, and was faultlessly apparelled in evening dress; and Leo's heart filled with tender pride, at the consciousness that he was all her own. The exigencies of etiquette prevented for more than an hour any nearer approach, but when Mr.
'Luther, he said at length, 'has committed two sins: he has touched the Pope's crown and the monks' bellies. He generously and strongly urged Frederick not to yield for the present to Pope Leo's importunacy; and the Pope was obliged to try less hasty and more formal methods. He had wished Luther to be sent to him to Rome, where his process would have had a rapid end.
Leo's eyes were wet with tears, which Doctor Douglass ascribed to devotional fervor; and withdrawing her hand, she opened one of the windows, and called the doves to the stone ledge, putting them very gently out upon the ivy wreaths that clambered up the wall, and peeped into the chapel. "I believe you are sacristan here?" he said, pointing to the candles that flared, as the wind rushed in.
Leo's attention had flagged during this speech he was so unaccustomed to many words now his interest revived. "Do you remember a certain shady spot about half a mile from the monastery, beneath a group of birch-trees, and overhung with alders?" asked Knops. "Do I not, indeed?" responded Leo, eagerly. "It is the sweetest, coolest water on the estate.
Thus I gasped, not all at once, but in broken words, as I hobbled along clinging to Leo's arm. But he only answered in a low voice "Be quiet, or they will hear you," and on he went, dragging me with him. We were quite near the water now, for we could see it gleaming below us, and oh! how I longed for one deep drink. I remember that this was the uppermost desire in my mind, to drink and drink.
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