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The scenes themselves are the works of highly educated artists, and never degenerate into the rough daubs with which most playgoers are familiar. The building is fire-proof, and is warmed and ventilated in a peculiar manner. The great central chandelier and the lights around the cornice of the auditorium are lighted by electricity. The plays presented here are superbly put on the stage.
He took no dark-alley chances, but headed for the bright lights of the main streets where he would be safe from any possibility of a second ambush. His brain was as busy as his eyes. Who had planned this attempt on his life and so nearly carried it to success? Of one thing he was sure.
"Why, Captain Osborn, to tell you the truth, I don't think it will be steady to one point long. It may at first blow hard from the north, but it's my idea it will shift soon to some other quarter, and blow still harder." "What think you, Mackintosh?" "We'll have plenty of it, and a long steady gale, that's my notion; and the sooner we ship the dead lights the better."
PROKÓFYEVNA. Is he asleep? KARP. Don't know. I guess not; he hasn't that habit. It isn't time yet, anyway. What do you think? In St. Petersburg it isn't dinner-time yet, it's still morning. PROKÓFYEVNA. What's that, good heavens! KARP. Why, at times in the winter, when it's already dusk and the lights are lit everywhere, it's still considered morning. PROKÓFYEVNA. What's the wonder!
Dimmed were the lights that were wont to make a fairyland of St. Mark's Square, and in the daytime the red, white, and green of the Italian flag supplied almost the only color, while the only music was the martial call of Garibaldi, to which countless marched to the field of battle. "To arms! Haste! Haste! ye martial youth! On every wind our banners fly, Rise all with arms, all with fire!"
"Here we sat and smoked until the air inside was as thick as the fog that blotted out the lights of the city and towns opposite. Of course the talk was of the rotten state of San Francisco. I never heard the whole story before, and it made my hair stand on end.
I quickly seized her and called for you. She then glided from my fingers and disappeared. Like General d'Espagne, I say there must he a trap-door somewhere in this room. Call Roustan, take lights, and examine the walls and the floor." The valet de chambre hastened to fetch Roustan: they took lights and made a thorough examination, but in vain.
Well, it was in the year 1755, on the 2nd December, that one o' the keepers went to snuff the candles, for they only burned candles in the lighthouses at that time, and before that time great open grates with coal fires were the most common; but there were not many lights either of one kind or another in those days. On gettin' up to the lantern he found it was on fire.
He was still beset by uncertainties when he went out to Waverton next morning. Impatient for some form of action, he made an early start. On the way he considered Rodney Temple's words of the previous afternoon, saying to himself: "In the Street called Straight there are lights to show the way, by Jove! Gad! I should like to know where they are."
I have known him impress or convert the most unlikely people by nothing but a bare sincerity. Just now while the servants were handing champagne he and I were standing a little way off under the gallery. His eyes are weak, and he can't bear the glare of all these lights. Suddenly he told me the story of his father's death." She paused, and drew her hand across her eyes.
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