In an hour more, the whole house was awakened by a violent noise of howling, curses, and pots clattering to and fro. Forth issued Mrs. Landlady in her night-gear, out came John Ostler with his pitchfork, downstairs tumbled Mrs. Cook and one or two guests, and found the landlord and...
She had been afraid before of the brute in him: now of the mystic. She trod beside him in silence. The rain fell with a heavy "Hush!" on the trees. At last they gained the cartshed. "Let us stay here awhile," he said. There was a sound of rain everywhere, smothering everything...
And Gladys—oh, my Gladys!—Gladys of the mystic lake, now to be re-named the Central, for never shall she have immortality through me. Did I not always see some hard fiber in her nature? Did I not, even at the time when I was proud to obey her behest, feel that it was surely...
Yet there is one hour when all is changed.Just before the sun sets towards the western cliffs a delicious flush brightens and enlivens the landscape.It is as though some Titanic artist in an hour of inspiration were retouching the picture, painting in dark purple shadows among the rocks, ...
Tupman, with rising indignation and great importance, explained the mystic device. 'Rather short in the waist, ain't it?' said the stranger,screwing himself round to catch a glimpse in the glass of the waist buttons, which were half-way up his back. 'Like a general postman's coat—...
feeling that it was not yet the hour to enter it.But the nightshade of his friend's listlessness seemed to be diffusing in the air around him a tenuous and deadly exhalation and he found himself glancing from one casual word to another on his right or left in stolid wonder that they had...
They found her dead on the morning of Good Friday. The last time that they had helped her calculate her age, during the time the banana company, she had estimated it as between one hundred fifteen and one hundred twenty-two. They buried her in a coffin that was not much larger than th...
Soon a cheerful blaze was curling up the chimney, before which the man sat on the one rickety chair the room contained and warmed his numbed hands. For over half an hour he remained thus, gazing down intently into the fire. But hotter than the coals before him seemed the eyes which ...
Chapter 4 Our good old nation was just seven years old as a republic when it became bigger by a small territory. Pondicherry entered the Union of India on November 1, 1954. One civic achievement called for another. A portion of the grounds of the Po
This ascent would progressively enable the mystic to detach him or herself from the chains that held him or her back—in particular, the pleasures of the flesh, the material world, and of course, the devil. The final rung (ecstasy) was a gift from God and there was nothing a mystic ...