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Another hour of the infernal wait on the sandbank, and he would have transferred himself to one of the scores of small boats and been ferried across to Luxor, where he would have dined at the Winter Palace Hotel, whilst waiting to catch the express to Cairo, and perhaps have seen his beloved in the dining-room, or have heard that she was staying there.
What do you ask? You have a short memory, sir, but I remember, I remember with what infernal art you induced me, not to yield to you for you well know, and God is witness to it, that I yielded only to violence but to listen to you with a too trustful ear. No, I see you do not remember it: you have forgotten so many things that it would be lost time to try and refresh your memory.
With one glance and one good night, he hurried out. The wind once more, for a brief moment, held an infernal carnival in the house. They crowded to the window saw a dim form heave up on horseback, and presently vanish. All space lay beyond; but, for them, he was swallowed up by the jaws of the darkness. They knew no more.
This mythology is said to have been unknown in Arabia till long after Mahomet: the only invisible beings we read of in their early traditions are the Gins, which term, though now used for the most part as synonimous with Dives, originally signified nothing more than certain infernal fiends of stupendous power, whose agency was hostile to man.
"And he is kept chained up." "What an infernal shame!" burst from Piers. "I'd sooner shoot a dog than keep him on a chain." "So would I!" said Avery impulsively. The words were out before she could check them. It was a subject upon which she found it impossible to maintain her reticence. Piers grinned triumphantly and thrust out a boyish hand. "Shake!" he said. "We are in sympathy!"
She was aware only that somehow, at the back of her happiness this shadow had always lurked; and that England lay across the seas, at an immense distance. . . . He went on his tone moody, but the words brief and distinct. "For a few months, only; five or six, perhaps; with any luck, even less. That infernal aunt of mine "
"This little chap shall draw for us." "What, this innocent child decide which town shall be given over to fire and blood and pillage!" exclaimed the priest. "An infernal contrivance of yours, Diurbanu!" But meantime the child had reached out a tiny hand and clutched at one of the cards, which it handed to the priest. "Bring me one of the candles," bade the latter.
Archie appeared to be thinking. "Right-o!" he said at last. "No need to get the wind up. I know where he can go. It's just occurred to me I'll put him up at my little shop." The purple ebbed from Mr. Brewster's face. Such was his emotion that he had forgotten that infernal shop. He sat down. There was more silence. "Oh, gosh!" said Mr. Brewster.
The blazing fragments drifted about among the other ships, and two more were soon on fire, their guns going off and their magazines exploding. The rock of Gibraltar seemed to reel. To the murky darkness succeeded the intolerable glare of a new and vast conflagration. The scene in that narrow roadstead was now almost infernal.
"Kate!" cried Terry. "Good God, are you mad?" "Yes," she sobbed. "Mad! Will you stay?" "What infernal nonsense " The gun boomed hollowly in the narrow passage between mow and wall. El Sangre reared, a red flash in the sunlight, and landed far away in the shadow, trembling.
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