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He refused all calls from a distance, and would hurry away from his patients, even when they were close at hand. Formerly it was only during the mid-day meals and at night-time that he could come into the inner apartment. But now, with unnecessary anxiety for his aunt's comfort, he began to visit her at all hours of the day.
These despatches gave distinct directions to Sonoy to flood the countlv at all risks; rather than allow Alkmaar to, fall into the enemy's hands. The dykes and sluices were to be protected by a strong guard, lest the peasants, in order to save their crops, should repair or close them in the night-time.
But when in the first faint grey light of early morning I made her out again, and saw that she was in just the same position and at just the same distance ahead of me, I was almost as sorry as I would have been had she vanished; for I knew that had she been a living ship in that long night-time she would have sailed away.
He seems to have been living in such an atmosphere of petty spite that to admit the existence of a pleasure would have been to risk the loss of it. He found that as the dawn advanced, and the amount of diffused light increased, the crystal became to all appearance non-luminous. And for some time he was unable to see anything in it, except at night-time, in dark corners of the shop.
It was night-time when we came to the grove that is outside the walls, and the air was sultry, for the Moon was travelling in Scorpion. We took the ripe pomegranates from the trees, and brake them, and drank their sweet juices. Then we lay down on our carpets, and waited for the dawn. 'And at dawn we rose and knocked at the gate of the city.
"A group for which I had just had an idea." "And why did you hide it?" "I did not mean you to see it till it was finished." "The woman is very pretty," said Hortense. And a thousand suspicions cropped up in her mind, as, in India, tall, rank plants spring up in a night-time. By the end of three weeks, Madame Marneffe was intensely irritated by Hortense.
In the night-time they are persuaded they hear the march of a great cavalcade, and concluding the noise to be the tramp of their own party, they make the best of their way in the direction of the quarter whence it seems to come; but when the day breaks, they find they have been misled and drawn into a situation of danger.
Like the cry of a bird in the night-time, or of a cannibal tribe on the warpath." "And is this your oriental version of Véronique?" asked his friend. "No," said Reggie, "it is a different chapter of experience altogether. Perhaps old Hardwick was right. I still have much to learn, thank God. Véronique was personal; Yaé is symbolic. She is my model, just like a painter's model, only more platonic.
Now burying her face in the cushions, she exclaims: "No, I have it not. Methought I might find it even here. No happiness for me until I experience it All the gold I possess would I gladly give to have the exquisite pleasure of obtaining and realizing it!" It is night-time. She stands upon the summit of a hill alone, and her figure looks weird and ghostly in the silver moonlight.
We must take care in the mean time that the rebels do not see him, or they will know that by some means or other he got in, and will be on the watch for him. We may depend on Pemberton's carrying out his plan, and I should advise that the attempt be made in the night-time." Quashie was rather disappointed at finding that he was not to set off at once, as he was eager to get his dollar.
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