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Would it matter now if we were bankrupt, and our Empire among the things that were, if only we were turning to sackcloth and ashes because of that dousing of the glim in the heart of the young?
"My God, man, he dived out head first; I saw him. He'll be dead as a door nail now. Come on with that lantern, Turner. Where in thunder is the ladder does any one know?" "You think he lies on the roof?" "Why not? That's where he must have struck, ain't it, Shorty? I don't know though; it is so steep he'd most likely roll off. Here, you, let me take the glim. There's nothing here in these boxes.
"Damn that 'Dismal Jimmy' owl!" he ejaculated testily, in a low tone "an' thim ki-oots! . . . beggars all seem to be givin' us th' ha! ha! as if they knew. P'raps he has beat ut on us afther all? . . . 'Tis harrd tu say we cannot shpot a glim from this side winders all face east. Now! luk a-here, all av yez!"
"With that other cove driving up and going in without ever showing a glim?" Raffles nudged me, and I saw what I had done.
He rushed back to the wheel. The tiller ropes were new, and he could trust them, fortunately. From the cabin hatchway emerged Mrs. Bascom bearing the lighted lantern. "Good!" snapped Seth. "Now we can see what we're doin' and, if we show a glim, maybe we won't run down no more dories. You go for'ard and No, you take this wheel and hold it just as 'tis. JUST as 'tis; understand?
Was this the Happy Harry gang after him again? He hoped not, yet the fact that the persons had on masks made the hold-up have an ugly look. Once more Tom flashed the light on the throng. There were exclamations of dismay. "Douse that glim, somebody!" called a sharp voice, which Tom could not recognize. A stone came whizzing through the air, from some one in the crowd.
"I see your point, old chap, and out goes the `glim'." And so saying he took down the lamp, opened, and extinguished it. "It is well," approved the king, with a sigh of relief. "Now can I talk without fear of discovery." Know you also the story of Seketulo, whom the Four Spirits made king in M'Bongwele's stead when they first came among the Makolo?" "Yes, we know," answered Dick.
Now, old Meg, d n me if I can understand a glim of this story of yours, or what good it will do you to hang the one wench and torment the other; but, rat me, I will be true to my friend, and serve ye the way ye like it.
He crossed to her side. "Well, Caroline," he said, cheerfully, "I'm home again." She turned. "I see you are," she answered. "Humph! your eyes must be better than mine then. I can't see anything in here. It's darker than a nigger's pocket. Suppose we turn on the glim." He struck a match as he said it. By its light he saw her face.
In crossing the great hall, to enter the drawing-room, he encountered Galleygo, when the following discourse took place. "I should think the master-at-arms has not done his duty, and dowsed the glim below, Master Steward," said the rear-admiral, in his quiet way, as they met; "the laughing, and singing, and hiccupping, are all upon a very liberal scale for a respectable country-house."
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