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Slingerland was his appreciative listener. "Wal," he would say, shaking his grizzled head, "I reckon I don't believe all your General Lodge says is goin' to happen." "But, man, can't you imagine what it will be?" protested Neale. "Take thousands of soldiers the riffraff of the war and thousands of laborers of all classes, niggers, greasers, pigtail chinks, and Irish.
Thoughts many and disquieting haunted his mind, and his supper had been but light. Whereby it befell that midnight came and went, and Tedaldo was still awake. As thus he watched, he heard shortly after midnight, a noise as of persons descending from the roof into the house, and then through the chinks of the door of his room he caught the flicker of an ascending light.
But at all events I went forth from the lilac clump by the well, and picked up my full water cans with a heart wondrously strengthened, and so up the path to Heathknowes with a back straight as a ramrod, because of the eyes that I knew were watching me through the chinks in the wall of summer blossom. But I found a very necessary stimulus in the details of the examination for the bursary.
The workers plied their tools industriously, while Kamapua shouted threats and defiance through the chinks in the wall before the cavern door. His taunts were vain. While the sinking of the shaft was in progress, a strange new power was coming upon Pele. The gods of the earth and air had seen this assault and had resolved to take her part.
It is good for the medical students to live in close neighborliness with this bit of actual service. One student in writing of her future plans mentions that, as an "avocation" in the chinks of her hospital work, she plans to raise private funds and found a little orphanage all her own! Early Rising.
Just as some unusually vivid flash of lightning revealed the hidden depths of a crevasse, bringing plainly before the eye chinks and crannies not discernible in the strongest sunlight, so did the glimpse of Spencer's soul illumine her understanding. He was not only safeguarding her, but thinking of her, and the stolen knowledge set up a bewildering tumult in her heart.
They invaded all accessible nooks and crannies of the room; big folios were bursting out from the larger gaps, and thin quartos trickling through chinks that otherwise would have been choked with dust; and even from the mouldings above the doors bracketed shelves thrust out, upon which rows of volumes perched, like penguins on a ledge of rock.
Light only came in through doorways and chinks in the woodwork in long shafts, but such light! golden afternoon sun into a temple of gold, you can imagine the effect when it struck gilding how it flamed, burned, and lit up remote corners of the shadowy interior with subdued yellows!
"Yes," admitted Ned, "I told him we were going to Peking by way of Tientsin. I should not have done that." "Oh, it can do no harm, and may be for your benefit. If the lad was not killed by the Chinks, he is doubtless on his way to Peking." "Then you think he knew there was something wrong because we did not meet you?" asked Ned. "Yes; he acted queerly."
As soon as evening arrives, the geckoes are to be seen in every house in keen and crafty pursuit of their prey; emerging from the chinks and recesses where they conceal themselves during the day, to search for insects that then retire to settle for the night.
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