1 THE sun rose upon a tranquil world, and beamed down upon the peaceful village like a benediction.
2 Her troubles were instantly at rest, her soul at peace again; for the "indifference" was broken up.
3 Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.
4 His soul was at peace, now that he had settled with Sid for calling attention to his black thread and getting him into trouble.
5 It was the cool gray dawn, and there was a delicious sense of repose and peace in the deep pervading calm and silence of the woods.
6 But at last the battle was done, and the forces retired with weaker and weaker threatenings and grumblings, and peace resumed her sway.
7 The peaceful face reflected somewhat of peace and healing into his own spirit, and his thoughts wandered away to bygone times and dreamy memories.
8 The peaceful face reflected somewhat of peace and healing into his own spirit, and his thoughts wandered away to bygone times and dreamy memories.
9 Two or three glimmering lights showed where it lay, peacefully sleeping, beyond the vague vast sweep of star-gemmed water, unconscious of the tremendous event that was happening.
10 Not long after, as Tom, all undressed for bed, was surveying his drenched garments by the light of a tallow dip, Sid woke up; but if he had any dim idea of making any "references to allusions," he thought better of it and held his peace, for there was danger in Tom's eye.
11 It seemed to him that life was but a trouble, at best, and he more than half envied Jimmy Hodges, so lately released; it must be very peaceful, he thought, to lie and slumber and dream forever and ever, with the wind whispering through the trees and caressing the grass and the flowers over the grave, and nothing to bother and grieve about, ever any more.