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A voice Bernard's called from within, "Good night, old fellow, thanks for a pleasant evening. I'm being washed now." The night was overcast, warm, quiet, and very dark under the trees: there was husbandry in heaven, their candles were all out.
'Dog-cart name behind Right Honourable the Earl of Scamperdale lad with cockade everything genteel'; adding, 'by Jove, they'll take you for me! Having settled all these matters, and arranged how the information was to be communicated to Jawleyford, the friends at length took their block-tin candlesticks, with their cauliflower-headed candles, and retired to bed. When Mr.
Once in a week one of them ploughed through the drifts to the cottage at the foot of the third valley, and got as he needed flour and candles, soap or matches. It had not yet occurred to either of them to Senhouse it never did occur to beg the sight of a newspaper. But Saint Valentine's call stirred the deeps of Glyde, who now said that he must have news.
He had gazed with peculiar favour at Croisette's girlish face, I thought: Marie and I were dark and ugly by the side of the boy. But he turned from him now with a queer, excited gesture, thumping his gold-headed cane on the floor. He called his servants in a loud, rasping voice, and left the room in seeming anger, driving them before him, the one carrying his dag, and the other, two candles.
"Isolated the grandmother," said Bobus. "That has nothing to do with it." "I'm sure of it. I'll show you how it acts." "I'll show you just the contrary." "Not to-night," cried their mother, as Bobus began to relight the lamp. "You two explosives are quite perilous enough by day without lamps and candles." "You endure a great deal," said Mr. Ogilvie.
At the foot of the steps was a long narrow room with one small window; it was directly over the part where the animals were. The hall was lighted with quite a handsome Venetian glass chandelier in which we used candles.
After the people had all congregated about the platform and the royal party and the visitors were seated in the grandstand, the Wizard skillfully performed some feats of juggling glass balls and lighted candles. He tossed a dozen or so of them high in the air and caught them one by one as they came down, without missing any.
That would make it somewhere in the close neighbourhood of a quarter to twelve when the maid left her mistress; and it was three o'clock in the morning, was it not, when the murder was discovered? Hum-m-m! Singular, most singular, amazingly so!" "What?" "The condition of these two candles. Look at them," said he, taking one out of the silver holder and extending it for Narkom's examination.
A three-socketed candle-stick filled with partially burned candles which doubtless had been knocked from the table was mute evidence of how the tiny flame had started upon its short march.
Last night, at ten o'clock, I lit these candles, and you promised to work for only two hours more. Look at them now, and see what you have been doing." "Indeed, I do believe that I have been here all night," said Gluck, with naive astonishment. "But I assure you, Marianne, that I fully intended to go to bed at the end of two hours. Is it my fault if the night has seemed so short?
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