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Every one's eyes rested upon him, that is, all but Arnold's, which seemed holding some secret communion with the cupids on the ceiling, and the look of convulsive agony that swept across Ruth's face was unnoticed.
Opposite, and as far from him as the space will admit, is Bloxam, his right arm upraised, and his hand holding a pistol pointed upwards. In the background stands Beauchamp, in an attitude expressive of intense anxiety. Having reached the ceiling, the curtain slowly commences to descend.
For just inside on the pavement whose tesselations are not less lovely than the ceiling mosaics indeed I often think more lovely are the porphyry slabs on which the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa asked pardon of Pope Alexander III, whom he had driven from Rome into an exile which had now brought him to Venice.
She put her cheek against his for a minute, took her arms away and turned into the west sitting-room where a fire was leaping and making soft, living shadows on the ceiling. In the middle of the room she stopped him with a hand on his arm. "Look at the shadows," she said, in a low voice, as if they might hear and flee away.
Sonetchka also laughed unceasingly, whether we were whirling round in a circle or whether we stood still to watch an old lady whose painful movements with her feet showed the difficulty she had in walking. Finally Sonetchka nearly died of merriment when I jumped half-way to the ceiling in proof of my skill.
Sweetwater, in whom satisfaction was fast taking the place of impatience and regret, pushed the window to before asking George this question: "Did you hear the voice of the man whose action attracted, your attention outside the Clermont?" "No." "Did you note just now the large shadow dancing on the ceiling over the speaker's head?" "Yes, but I could judge nothing from that."
For a whole month past he had been wholly engrossed in his attempt to solve the mystery surrounding the two cases on which he was engaged, the Beltham case, and the Langrune case, and his mind was leisurely revolving round them now as he sat in his warm room before a blazing wood fire, and watched the blue smoke curl up in rings towards the ceiling.
As the evening wore away the charm of the room grew upon me. Vistas hazy with tobacco smoke opened up; the ceiling lost in the fog gave one the impression of out-of-doors like a roof-garden at night; a delusion made all the more real by the happy uproar.
It were long reading the inventory of articles he had brought together there for the edification and amusement of such as might become his idols. They were everywhere apparently books, pictures, musical instruments on the floor, a carpet to delight a Sultana mother over the walls, arras of silk and gold in alternate threads the ceiling an elaboration of wooden panels.
Then she ran off merrily, and shut herself up in the room with the blue ceiling. And when she had let Serge knock at the door twice, she softly set it ajar, and received him with an old-fashioned courtesy. 'Good morrow, my dear lord, she said as she embraced him. This amused them extremely. They played at being lovers with childish glee.
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