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He contracted a severe cold and came near getting poisoned by the chemicals. Recovering, he went with Higbie for an outing to Mono Lake, a ghastly, lifeless alkali sea among the hills, vividly described in "Roughing It." At another time he went with Higbie on a walking trip to the Yosemite, where they camped and fished undisturbed, for in those days few human beings came to that far isolation.
Then opened his eyes; and waking, his glance fell upon a ghastly looking object, pale and bloody, dragging itself along. Coming towards him. Mole gasped. This was real, he knew at once; there was no doubt about that. It was one of the Greek brigands, who had seen him asleep, no doubt, and was about to do for him. Poor Mole. Cold beads of perspiration stood upon his brow.
She was getting high again, not many miles now from the wall of rock. All at once Sage King shied, and Lucy looked down to see a man lying on the ground. He lay inert. But his eyes were open dark, staring eyes. They moved. And he called. But Lucy could not understand him. In a flash she leaped off the King. She ran to the prostrate man dropped to her knees. "Oh!" she cried. His face was ghastly.
This I then first learned is Venetian custom, and sure no other town will ever rob them of it, nor of this that follows. On a great porphyry slab in the piazza were three ghastly heads rotting and tainting the air, and in their hot summers like to take vengeance with breeding of a plague.
He saw the extinguisher lifted by a tiny hand, from beneath, and a small human face, no bigger than a thumb-nail, with nicely proportioned features, peep from beneath it. In this Lilliputian countenance was such a ghastly consternation as horrified my uncle unspeakably.
There lay the child, half covered by the skin, its lips parted in the ghastly semblance of a smile which was due to the indigestion caused by a heavy meal of unusual food, and there sat Samuel with wide open eyes, looking down into the fire without seeing it.
There lay Luke Darvil on the grass still living, but a horrible and ghastly spectacle. One ball had pierced his breast, another had shot away his jaw. His eyes rolled fearfully, and he tore up the grass with his hands. The officers looked coldly on. "He was a clever fellow!" said one. "And has given us much trouble," said the other; "let us see to Will."
"I am prepared to keep that promise," replied Mr. Ripley coldly. The sound of a slight stir came from the doorway between the outer and inner office. There in the doorway, his face ghastly white, his whole body seeming devoid of strength, leaned Fred Ripley. "I had almost forgotten that I asked you to come here," said Mr. Ripley, as he looked up. "How long have you been here?"
The room was hung with black: the gorgeous pall, wrought with the proud heraldry of our line, lay over the coffin; and by the lights which made, in that old chamber, a more brilliant, yet more ghastly, day, sat the hired watchers of the dead. I bade them leave me, and kneeling down beside the coffin, I poured out the last expressions of my grief.
Frank, narrating the interview to Saul Arthur Mann, described the speech as almost mechanical. "I hope you are going to take it nicely," she went on, "that we are going to be such good friends as we always were, and that even the memory of your poor uncle's death and the ghastly trial which followed and the part that Jasper played will not spoil our friendship."
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