Saying nothing of her last night's alarm, Helen went down to breakfast a little paler than usual, but otherwise unchanged.

She saw how Mary grew daily paler, sadder.

The faces of the columns looked more rigid, paler, in the glow: men facing death have no time for fresh morning thoughts.

There might have been something in the little convent girl's face, had his eye been more sensitivetrifle paler, maybe, the lips a little tighter drawn, the blue ribbon a shade faded.

Her great eyes opened wider than before, her face shaded paler momentarily, the soft oval chin trembled.

For perhaps a minute thereafter she sat so, her great eyes unconsciously opening wider and wider, her brown skin shading paler second by second.

Do you get yellow cream like this in the village, Mr. Maxwell?" "No, Mrs. Wood," he said; "ours is a much paler yellow," and then there was a great tinkling of china, and passing of dishes, and talking and laughing, and no one noticed that I was not in my usual place in the hall.

The stars seemed brighter than everno, one on the eastern horizon twinkled paler; the blue-black sky had faded; another star paled; others lost their diamond lustre; a silvery pallor spread throughout the east, while the increasing chorus of the birds grew in my ears.