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"You have news?" the sheik said, as they came up to the fire by which he was sitting. The moon was shining brightly, lighting up the wide expanse of sand round the grove. "The Franks have come," one said. Edgar sprung to his feet with an exclamation of surprise and alarm. "When did they come?" the sheik asked.
Miss Maud Chilvers, of Aldershot, burst into Roland's life like one of the shells of her native heath two days later at about five in the afternoon. It was an entrance of which any stage-manager might have been proud of having arranged. The lighting, the grouping, the lead-up all were perfect. The family had just finished tea in the long drawing-room.
Dementia frequently takes the form of er you might say unnatural cunning." "I'll speak to Mrs. Vick. There's a scrap-book of Kodak pictures there on the table. I was looking through it today. She and her brother, Cale, made heaps of pictures. You might be looking through it while I go upstairs." Thane was lighting a cigarette.
They might have no reference whatever to the Mayor and his partner but under the circumstances it was at any rate a curious coincidence, and he had an overwhelming intuition that something lay behind that entry. But what? That evening, as Bent and his guest were lighting their cigars after dinner, Bent's parlour-maid came into the smoking-room with a card.
Lighting his pipe, he tried to concentrate his thoughts, and by and by made an abrupt movement. He had it! When he was in British Columbia, engaged on the construction of a section of the railroad that was being built among the mountains, he met a young Englishman at a mining settlement.
Confirmed in his determination by this miracle for it could be nothing less the Emperor saddled his favourite horse, which alone remained awake, and set out on his quest. It was a beautiful night in late autumn. The moon hung like a silver shield in the deep blue arch of the sky, casting weird shadows on the slopes and lighting the gloom of the ancient forests.
The ceremony was conducted mysteriously and without lighting a single candle more than ordinary. I do not pretend to say that oxygen has any of these weaknesses, nor that he is any more partial to marrying with one body more than with another. In the good God's great world, outside of the family of man, they know nothing of our foolish pride, of our little weaknesses.
As the rich and solemn strains swept grandly through the spacious Temple, Niphrata stretched out her hands toward the High Priestess, a smile of wonderful beauty lighting up her fair child-face.
He came in, not seeing that any one was there at first; for they had never thought of lighting a candle. Kinraid stepped forward into the firelight; his purpose of concealing what he had said to Sylvia quite melted away by the cordial welcome her father gave him the instant that he recognized him. 'Bless thee, lad! who'd ha' thought o' seein' thee?
Yet it must not be supposed that we spent any great time in the cabins; for we were pressed for food, and made haste under the directing of the bo'sun to discover if the hulk held victuals whereby we might be kept alive. To this end, we removed the hatch which led down to the lazarette, and, lighting two lamps which we had with us in the boats, went down to make a search.
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