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Save for the hissing of the furnace and the clanking of the chain as he strove with all his strength to win freedom, that wonderful evil room was silent as the King's Chamber at the heart of the Great Pyramid. His gaze reverted to the yellow flask. "Oh, my God!" he groaned. Terror claimed him the terror which he had with difficulty been fending off throughout that nightmare interview with Fo-Hi.
I had a devilish close call," and Chip threw back the covers and essayed to step from the bed. His limbs trembled, and throwing up his hands despairingly, he sank back again. A flask of brandy stood on the table, and in an instant Sam had the cork out and had poured some of its contents down his friend's throat.
At first its owner had no meat to spare, but when he found that the visitor had a flask of whiskey he offered for it a large piece of Moose meat; when this was refused he doubled the amount, and after another refusal added some valuable furs and more meat till one hundred dollars worth was piled up. Again the answer was "no."
So I took the said flask and went my ways hastily to my own chamber, and there I looked at the said flask and took out the stopple; and there was a liquor therein, white like to water, but of a spicy smell, sweet, fresh, and enheartening. So I yet thought this was some great treasure, and that much hung upon it, could I find out unto what use it might be put.
We shall relate a few of Madame Pfeiffer's experiences. One day she repaired to a small village in search of food. After wandering from hut to hut, she obtained a small quantity of milk and three eggs. She laid the eggs in hot ashes, and covered them over; filled her leathern flask from the Tigris; and, thus loaded, returned to the encampment formed by the caravan.
"Farewell, dearest!" said the heart-stricken girl; and Juanita left the chamber. Before a silver crucifix, Magdalena knelt in prayer. "Father of mercies, blessed Virgin, absolve me of the sin if sin it be to rush unbidden to the presence of my Judge! My burden is too great to bear!" She rose from her knees, took from a cupboard a goblet of Venetian glass, and a flask of Xeres wine.
One father goes so far, in his fear of heretical influences, as to remunerate by the gift of a slave the dealer Ferdinando Gomez, who had supplied him with "a flask of wine for the sacrament and some other small things," yet he owns F. Gomez to be a rogue.
"We will only just show ourselves to your aunt," said he, quietly but decidedly, as he opened the door. They found Mrs. Garman in her room, sitting comfortably in her armchair. Before her she had a tray, on which stood a bottle of water and a small straw-covered flask of curaçoa.
See the scratches I made on the paper are red." Then hardly giving us more than a moment to let the fact impress itself on our minds, he seized the piece of paper and dashed it into the jar of ammonia. When he withdrew it, it was just a plain sheet of white paper again. The red marks which the gas in the flask had brought out of nothingness had been effaced by the ammonia.
It was allowed that he had pizened his schoolmaster afore he went to sea. But it's dry talking, boys." Golightly drew a flask from his jacket and handed it to the janitor. It was his father's best brandy. The heart of the honest old seaman was touched. "Bless ye, my own pirate boy!" he said in a voice suffocating with emotion.