The sunshine left the floor and the wall, and a dankness from the long grass and the closing flowers and the heavy trees in the adjacent churchyard stole into the room.

With the coming of the dusk conversation languished, and the two sat in silence until the return of the Colonel.
If that gentleman did not light the darkness like a star, at least his entrance into a room invariably produced the effect of a sudden accession of was lights, very fine and clear and bright.

He broke a jest or two, bade laughing farewell to the master of Fair View, and carried off his daughter upon his arm.

Haward walked with them to the gate, and came back alone, stepping thoughtfully between the lilac bushes.
It was not until Juba had brought candles, and he had taken his seat at table before the half-emptied bottle of wine, that it came to Haward that he had wished to tell Evelyn of the brown girl who had run for the guinea, but had forgotten to do so..