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Updated: June 10, 2025
With the Conservative leader exiled to Greece and the Progressive leader himself taking the eagles into Gaul the winter's brilliance was threatened with eclipse. Pompey was left in Rome, but the waning of his political star, it could not be denied, had dimmed his social lustre.
In the ten years which had elapsed since Mrs. Maitland had plunged into her debauch of furnishing her one extravagance! of course the parlors had softened; the enormous roses of the carpets had faded, the glitter of varnish had dimmed; but the change was not sufficient to blur in Mrs. Maitland's eyes, all the costly and ugly glory of the room.
The words struck home; yet they only dimmed the fiery old man's glad self-reliance a moment and, amid the voices uttering disapproval of the malicious Gabriel and the few who upheld the Zebulunite, he cried: "And because I am perhaps in danger of losing, not only the ten thousand acres of land I flung behind me, but a noble son, it is my right to speak here."
'While Victor Hugo needs the cast-off clothes of history, the wardrobe and costume, the sepulchre of Charlemagne, the ghost of Barbarossa, the coffins of Lucretia Borgia, Alexandre Dumas requires no more than a room in an inn, where people meet in riding cloaks, to move the soul with the last degree of terror and of pity. The reproach of being amusing has somewhat dimmed your fame for a moment.
"Peter and I will have Evelina move down immediately with us. James Hardin has as much in the way of a family as he can very well stand up under now." And as she spoke, Aunt Augusta glared at Sallie with such ferocity that even Sallie's sunshiny presence was slightly dimmed. "Are you ready, Evelina?
I do not remember how long it was after my introduction to Miss Gardiner, before I discovered that her only ornament was a small, exquisitely cut cameo breast-pin, set in a circlet of pearls. There was no obtrusive glitter about this. It lay more like an emblem than a jewel against her bosom. It never drew your attention from her face, nor dimmed, by contrast, the radiance of her soul-lit eyes.
She did not know what about, but soon after she had gone up to her room she heard him calling her. "What is it, father?" she called back. "I am up-stairs." "I I've got a little rose-bush that I've been bringing on in a pot, I I thought," he concluded shyly, "I thought the little maid would fancy it, perhaps, in her room." A mist of tears dimmed Patience's eyes for a moment.
A paper-hanging, whose originally rich hues had become in a measure dimmed, covered the walls; and curious old pictures hung around; the chairs and tables were of heavy dark wood, elaborately and grotesquely carved, as was also the ebony clock in the corner, whose wonderful mechanism had so astonished him on the previous evening.
She caught a defiant look from Isobel. She did not want to answer; even the ethics of the little school at Miller's Notch had had no tolerance for a telltale. "A a Senior. She couldn't find me." Poor Jerry Graham's careless inquiry had dimmed her enthusiasm. Why hadn't Isobel found her?
They sat in silence until the sunset pageantry had dimmed to twilight. Then the man spoke again, guardedly. "You said something about warping your life for your father's sake. I wonder if well, I wonder if there's anything it would help you to talk about not to the minister but to the friend."
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