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Is that a real Elysian brightness, cries many a timid wayfarer, or the reflex of Pandemonian lava? Is it of a truth leading us into beatific Asphodel meadows, or the yellow-burning marl of a Hell-on-Earth? Ever higher and dizzier are the heights he leads us to; more piercing, all-comprehending, all-confounding are his views and glances.
By degrees he began to regain confidence, he kept urging himself to have courage and be calm. "Some foolishness, some trifling carelessness, and I may betray myself! Hm... it's a pity there's no air here," he added, "it's stifling.... It makes one's head dizzier than ever... and one's mind too..." He was conscious of a terrible inner turmoil.
The Adolf Scherer of that day though it is not so long ago as time flies was even more solid and impressive than the man he afterwards became, when he reached the dizzier heights from which he delivered to an eager press opinions on politics and war, eugenics and woman's suffrage and other subjects that are the despair of specialists. Had he stuck to steel, he would have remained invulnerable.
The more he looked into the nature of Natacha the dizzier he grew. What abysmal obscurities were there in her nature! Nothing interesting happened during dinner. Several times, in spite of Rouletabille's obvious impatience with her for doing it, Matrena went up to the general. She returned saying, "He is quiet. He doesn't sleep. He doesn't wish anything. He has asked me to prepare his narcotic.
He was swung into space, and all the life that had been so stationary, the booths, the lights, the men and women, the very stars went swinging with him as though to cheer him on; the horse under him galloped before, and the faster he galloped the wilder was the music and the dizzier the world. He was exultant, omnipotent, supreme.
Look, the will of steel is flinging men up into the air now. It is conquering the heavens. Why? That it may rush the faster. It craves for yet more speed, quicker, quicker, dizzier yet, hurrying wherefore? whither? Alas! it knows not itself. Are the children of the earth grown so homeless? Do they fear to take a moment's rest? Do they dread to look inward and see their own emptiness?
When you know I really said it first!" Her eyes were saying it again now; and he, bereft of words, mutely held out his arms. If she paused an instant, it was because she felt even dizzier than he. But the power of his longing drew her like a physical force and, as his lips claimed hers, the terror of love and its truth caught her and swept her from known shores into uncharted seas....
A dozen dusky figures shot out of the obscurity. One raised a tomahawk aloft, but another stopped the arm in its descent. He was conscious that the dusky figures stood about him in a ring, looking at him intently. But he was fast growing dizzier, and his eyelids were uncommonly heavy. He gave back their looks with defiance, and then he sank to the ground, unconscious.
Getting fainter and dizzier, I ran on; the ground got more broken more and more still, till I staggered and fell, and rose again, and ran on in the blind anguish of the hunted. Again the thought of Alice nerved me. I would not be lost and wreck her life: I would fight and struggle for life to the bitter end. With a great effort I caught the top of the wall.
Mr Abney's reedy tenor voice was issuing directions, each of which reached a dizzier height of futility than the last. Glossop was repeating over and over again the words, 'Shall I telephone for the police? to which nobody appeared to pay the least attention. One or two boys were darting about like rabbits and squealing unintelligibly.
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