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I made for the main hall, where valuable papers were kept, and at the door, cannoned against one of our men, who shrieked with fright and begged for mercy. "Coward!" said I, giving him a cuff. "What has happened?" A flare fell on us both, and he recognized me. "The De Meurons!" he gasped. "The De Meurons!" I left him bawling out his fear and rushed inside. "What has happened?"

It was not even the suddenness of the shock, or the sense of void, that threw Adams into the depths of Hamlet's Shakespearean silence in the full flare of Paris frivolity in its favorite haunt where worldly vanity reached its most futile climax in human history; it was only the quiet summons to follow the assent to dismissal. It was time to go.

Unpleasant as was the coming in contact with these bodies, Ainsley knew that their being there was of considerable service to him. He and his men crawled in a scattered line, and whenever the upward trail of sparks showed that a flare was about to burst into light, the whole party dropped and lay still until the light had burned itself out.

Toby sat in the stern of a boat with a single rower in front of her, and trailed her fingers through the magic water. She was bare-headed, and the breeze of the summer night stirred tenderly the golden ringlets that clustered about her bow. Her face, seen now and then in the flare of the rockets, had a strange look, almost a look of dread.

We sent up a flare, and at sight of it the lighthousemen, away on the Monk, began banging, and small blame to them!" As he finished his story Captain Whitaker stood up and reached out a hand to open a glass-fronted cupboard in which he kept his books and papers. The Commandant, mistaking his movement, rose also. "No, no, sir," the Captain corrected him. "Sit down and finish your breakfast.

By the couch came the tall dog, and crouched, staring up in the master's face; then the younger man turned his face towards Byrne and the girl. Those thin-cut nostrils expanded, the lips compressed, and Byrne dared not look into the flare of the eyes. "Who done this?" asked Barry, and still the shiver of cold metal rang in his voice. "Who's done this?" "Steady, lad," said Joe Cumberland faintly.

There was only one point at the far end whence a view of the stage that had been erected for the dancer could be obtained. Towards this Saltash turned. "We shall see her from here," he said. The place was but dimly illumined by the flare of the many lights below two great crystal candelabra that hung at each end being left unlighted.

Barr-Smith bowed not the knee to the Baal of western clothes-monotone, but daily sent out his sartorial orisons, keeping his windows open toward the Jerusalem of his London tailor, in a manner which would have delighted a Teufelsdröckh. He was a short man, with protruding cheeks, and a nose ending in an amorphous flare of purple and scarlet.

Wood over here!" "Where's Andy Blair?" "I don't know. Oh you Swipes! What you got!" "All right! This'll make a flare, all right!" "Oh, for the love of Peter! Look what Swipes has!" Harry, otherwise "Swipes" Morton, was convoying four laboring and perspiring freshmen who were carting over the campus a big box that had ones contained a piano. "Oh, you Swipes!" "Where'd you crab that?"

We dream that we are conquerors of Earth; We think that we are mighty, that we dare Scorn your grim power till we glimpse the flare Of burning Death 'mid holiness of Birth. What is our godliness and wisdom worth Against your strength embattled unaware? You are the Master, ever, everywhere, Deadly and gentle o'er the wide World's girth.