The crops that spring promised well and in the past weeks the mill had run a night shift. Down by the creek the square brick factory was yellow with light, and there was the faint, steady hum of the looms. It was such a night when it is good to hear from faraway, across the dark...
“Of course, I came out right away. Aunt Pitty told me about you last night and I—I just couldn't sleep all night for thinking how awful it was.Rhett, I'm so distressed!” “Why, Scarlett!” His voice was soft but there was a vibrant note in it, and looking up into his dark...
leathery, olive skinned face broke into a small curt smile of greeting that was yet in some curious way truly friendly. "Ah, you Mikey's little girl," Mrs. Corleone said. She had a heavy Italian accent, Kay could barely understand her. "You eat something?"...
I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells,listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how anyonecould ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. 我在那温和的天空下面,在这三块墓碑前...
Night fell quickly and the golden hues of daylight faded into faint whispers in the darkness. As the cold air draped heavily upon us, people trickled back to their cabins aboard the train, but I lingered on, fascinated by the cosmos. The waxing crescent moon was a beacon floating just ...
Nor did it quit me, when, late at night, I sat in the deserted parlor, lighted only by the glimmering coal-fire and the moon, striving to picture forth imaginary scenes, which, the next day, might flow out on the brightening page in many-hued description. If the imaginative faculty ...
There was also undoubtedly some unspoken sexual attraction between the two fathers. That wasn’t to be Peter’s last caning, either. A drunken fall from grace with sick on the garden path plus the refrigerator being left open all night incurred his father’s wrath. “You’ve upset your ...
The night, O my Lord, is a time of freedom. You have seen the morning and the night, and the night was better. In the night, all things began, and in the night the end of all things has come before me. — Thomas Merton, “Fire Watch, July 4, 1952” ...
When I finished her testing performance, I thanked Mr. Butler and knew the result would be posted on the door of the choral room the next day.1.I couldn’t fall asleep , tossing and turning in bed for a whole night(我在床上辗转反侧了一整夜,无法入睡)By the next morning, I hurried ...
"Once you've got her housed again, stick to her." Phillotson was more evasive to-night. He did not care to admit clearly that his taking Sue to him again had at bottom nothing to do with repentance of letting her go, but was, primarily, a human instinct flying in the f...