He had likewise had the misfortune of buryingburythis beloved wife herself , about five years before the time in which this history chuseschuseto setsetout .
At length the sun setsetin a flood of glory , behind the distant western hills , and as darkness drewdrawits veil around the secluded spot the sounds of preparation diminisheddiminish; the last light finally disappeareddisappearfrom the log cabin of some officer ; the trees castcasttheir deeper shadows over the mounds and the rippling stream , and a silencesilencesoon pervaded the camp , as deep as that which reigned in the vast forest by which it was environed .
Then I setsetdown in a chair by the window and triedtryto think of something cheerful , but it war n't no use .
I setsetdown again , a-shaking all over , and gotgetout my pipe for a smoke ; for the house was all as still as death now , and so the widow would n't know .
So he setsetdown on the ground betwixt me and Tom .
The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been setsetin the forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon .
Here , in a new shrine -- in a hall inlaid with precious stones , under a roof supported by pillars of gold -- the moon-god was setsetup and worshippedworship.
Accordingly after teateaMrs. Rachel setsetout ; she had not far to go ; the big , rambling , orchard-embowered house where the Cuthberts lived was a scant quarter of a mile up the road from Lynde ’s Hollow .
Early in the day Dorothea had returnedreturnfrom the infant school which she had setsetgoing in the village , and was takingtakeher usual place in the pretty sitting-room which divided the bedrooms of the sisters , bent on finishing a plan for some buildings ( a kind of work which she delighted in ) , when Celia , who had been watchingwatchher with a hesitating desire to propose something , saidsay--