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Updated: June 25, 2025
It is rather the east wind, as it blows out of the fogs of Newfoundland, and clasps a clear-eyed wintry noon on the chill bridal couch of a New England ice-quarry. Don't throw up your cap now, and hurrah as if this were giving up everything, and turning against the best growth of our latitudes, the daughters of the soil.
She knew nothing of feminine blandishments, of the coquetry which has become so effective a weapon in the hands of modern woman when she is not hampered by scruples. But she had lived too close to nature not to be aware of carnal appetite. It is a characteristic of frontier life that one learns to face facts. June looked at them now, clear-eyed, despair in her heart.
They are very different: one of them all elegance, all expensiveness, with an air of high fashion, from New York; the other a plain, pure, clear-eyed, straight-waisted, straight-stepping maiden from the heart of New England. And yet they are very much alike too more alike than they would care to think themselves for they eye each other with cold, mistrustful, deprecating looks.
When Ferguson looked again, the little company had ridden into the shadow, but Ferguson could make out the clear-eyed man, still erect in his saddle, still seeming to wear an air of unstudied nonchalance. For a moment longer Ferguson saw him, and then he was lost in the shadows. Two weeks later Ferguson had occasion to pass through Bear Flat.
He came back as clear-eyed as when he left, with the bulk of his wages in his pocket, where some of his fellows returned with empty pockets and aching heads. Wherefore, when the winter snows at last closed down the pile camp Thompson had accumulated four hundred dollars.
After that this song was sung: "Lay me to sleep in thy sheltering flame. O Master of the Hidden Fire. Wash pure my heart and cleanse for me My Soul's desire. In flame of sunrise bathe my soul O Master of the Hidden Fire. That when I wake clear-eyed may be My Soul's desire." This is by Fiona Macleod.
"Oh, no," she replied, shaking her head. "It only only confuses issues. Money has nothing to do with what I'm going to ask you. You said to-night you were going to live for the Truth the real naked Truth. Now, Paul dear, I want the real, naked Truth. Do you love that woman?" At her question she seemed to have grown from the common sense, clear-eyed Jane into a great and commanding presence.
Between the larch boles and under the thickets of honeysuckle and blackberry came a tawny silent form, wearing with the calm dignity of woodland creatures a beauty of eye and limb, a brilliance of tint, that few-women could have worn without self-consciousness. Clear-eyed, lithe, it stood for a moment in the full sunlight a year-old fox, round-headed and velvet-footed.
I wish to be trusted without evidence." He laughed again and held Miss Debby's hand tight in his own while they moved up the walk toward the tiny cottage. "From this time, I shall have faith in you, though evidence is lacking," she said. She liked the boy. She had never before been so pleasantly impressed by a young man as she had been by him. He was wholesome, clear-eyed and unaffected.
They were clear-eyed, vigorous, alert, and as hard as nails. With their caps on, they looked the well-trained soldiers which they were; but with caps removed, they resembled so many uniformed convicts less the prison pallor. "Oversea haircuts" were the last tonsorial cry, and for several days previous to our departure, the army hairdressers had been busily wielding the close-cutting clippers.
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