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Perhaps we can get the information we want from the outside of the envelope." He produced from his pocket a little electric lamp fitted with a bull's-eye, and, pressing the button, threw a beam of light in through the grille. The letter was lying on the bottom of the box face upwards, so that the address could easily be read. "Herrn Dr. H. Weiss," Thorndyke read aloud.
There were flaring torches all around it, and a "bull's-eye," taken from the head of a locomotive, made an especially brilliant patch of light. The stand had been erected at a point where the city's four principal streets meet, and as far as I could see there were solid masses of citizens extending into these streets.
'To be sure! cried a sleepy-faced carpenter, casting an approving look at the garret-window. 'It'll do him good! said the two women. 'And he shall have it, too! rejoined the man, administering another blow, and seizing Oliver by the collar. 'Come on, you young villain! Here, Bull's-eye, mind him, boy! Mind him!
The water being dense and very dark its light did not penetrate far, but close to the bull's-eye it was sufficiently strong to enable our hero to see what he was about. Having fixed the line, he was about to move in the direction of the wreck when he received one pull on his life-line.
Language is but a poor bull's-eye lantern where-with to show off the vast cathedral of the world; and yet a particular thing once said in words is so definite and memorable, that it makes us forget the absence of the many which remain unexpressed; like a bright window in a distant view, which dazzles and confuses our sight of its surroundings.
The windows were very small; more than half the glass was of the old, blue bull's-eye pattern, no longer to be found at modern glaziers, and each heavy window-shutter had a half-moon cut in its upper panel, to let in the daylight.
It's a sure hunch you're playin'." Smoke now altered his play. He bet more frequently, with single chips, scattered here and there, and he lost more often than he won. "Quit it," Shorty advised. "Cash in. You've rung the bull's-eye three times, an' you're ahead a thousand. You can't keep it up." At this moment the ball started whirling, and Smoke dropped ten chips on "26."
Indeed, I don't for the life of me understand how any man could have acted otherwise, under the circumstances." The listener, listening intently, here put a quiet question "Did you pay her?" which caused the narrator to wince like a galled horse. "Ah, there you hit the weak spot, Miss Urquhart, right in the bull's-eye," he declared, sighing furiously.
More than once he hit the bull's-eye, so to speak, in just that splendid way. Of the others, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is easily first in popular reputation, if not in actual achievement.
Ida, unfortunately, missed the target twice, and so got behind the others, but Brian and Guy were so close together that it remained for the last shot to show which had won the first place. Brian fired, and the little steel dart struck close to the bull's-eye. "Now, then!" cried Guy, reloading the pistol. "I must take extra good aim this time and get a bull. Oh, bother!"
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