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Relentlessly he bore his assailant to the ground and raised his knife. The lightning flared brilliantly again. With a great, choking cry of unutterable horror, Carl fell back and flung his knife away. "Oh, God!" he cried, shaking. "Philip!" He flung himself face downward on the ground in an agony of abasement. With a roar of wind and rain the hurricane beat gustily upon the wigwams.
Although Nina seldom came to the house and he knew that Rosemary saw little of her outside of school, he could not help but see that her influence continued to be remarkably strong. "Nina's an awful chump," declared Sarah who cordially disliked her and was in turn, disliked by Nina. "She is not!" flared Rosemary. "And, Aunt Trudy she has the loveliest blue velvet dress.
They had prepared to search the house, and one had laid his finger on the latch of her bedroom door; but she had flared out with such anger that, mindful of the supper she had already begun to prepare for them, they had desisted, and the whiskey-jug which the old man brought out distracted their attention.
After he had gone a long way without finding her, he came to a big old tree, and there he thought he would light a fire to show her the way if she should happen to see it. As the blaze flared up, he suddenly saw a little black heap on the other side of the tree. Somebody was lying there. He ran to the spot, his heart beating with hope.
Even in that moment of terrible dismay, Brian noted their muskets, and how the lighted matches flared like fireflies in the wind. "Trapped!" groaned one of the men, and they would have rowed out again into the teeth of the storm had not Brian stayed them. "No use, comrades. They have muskets, and there are cannon up above. Row in, and if we must die, then let us die like men and not cowards."
Tremendous flashes of lightning ripped and tore from the relief-points of the bench to the ground-rods, which flared at blue-white temperature under the incessant impacts. Knowing that this corona-loss was but an infinitesimal fraction of the power being used, Seaton's very mind staggered as he strove to understand the magnitude of the forces at work upon that stubborn sphere of energy.
There they stretched the same blackened wilderness of roofs sheltering the same horde of drinking, filthy, cursing, parasitical creatures; there flared the gin-palaces, more of them, more brilliantly lit, more gorgeously decorated. Ten years of my life, and what had I done? What could any one do? The truth seemed suddenly written across the sky in letters of fire.
Somebody, discovering Daddy Neptune's woodpile, had kindled a fatwood torch. Others followed his example, and the red, smoky light flared over enraged faces and glaring eyes of maddened men; over the sweating horses, the baying dogs, and the black corpse with its bruised face.
First a fragile wooden summer-house caught the blaze of a torch and flared up; then a villa itself, and another and another. The flames shot higher and higher, great glowing, wavering pyramids of heat, roaring and crackling, flinging a red circle of glowing light in toward the mainland by Cumæ, and shimmering out over the bay toward Prochyta.
"You don't think she'll go?" O'Shea did not answer. "That is what you'll do, any way," he said; "and ye'll do it the best way ye know how." He sat upon the bed some time longer, wrapped in grim reserve. The candle guttered, flared, burned itself out. The two men were together in the dark.
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