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When he stopped: "What am I to do with the girl, Audrey?" "Get rid of her. That's easy." "Not so easy as it sounds." He told her of Dunbar and the photographs, of Rudolph Klein, and the problem as he saw it. "So there I am," he finished. "If I let her go, I lose one of the links in Dunbar's chain. If I keep her?" "Can't Natalie talk to him?
I thus detail the precise mode in which it came into my possession; for the circumstances impressed me with peculiar force. "No doubt you will think me fanciful but I had already established a kind of CONNECTION. I had put together two links of a great chain. There was a boat lying on a seacoast, and not far from the boat was a parchment NOT A PAPER with a skull depicted on it.
From out the most central recess of this melancholy vaulting, depended, by a single chain of gold with long links, a huge censer of the same metal, Saracenic in pattern, and with many perforations so contrived that there writhed in and out of them, as if endued with a serpent vitality, a continual succession of parti-colored fires.
There's a huge inn that offers the long-distance telephone and market reports and golf links and very good horses, and lots of people stop there as a matter of course in their flight between Florida and Newport. They go up and down the coast like the mercury in a thermometer up when it's warm, down when it's cold. There's the secret of our mercurial temperament."
Upon which the cook replied, 'Was he before you upon the rope-ladder? Dickson answered, 'Yes; and I thought I heard something fall. Upon this the alarm was given, and links were immediately lighted, with which the artificers descended on the legs of the beacon, as near the surface of the water as possible, it being then about full tide, and the sea breaking to a considerable height upon the building, with the wind at S.S.E. But, after watching till low-water, and searching in every direction upon the rock, it appeared that poor Henderson must have unfortunately fallen through the rope-ladder, and been washed into the deep water.
"Yes, Roderic, thou shalt obey," exclaimed the inimical goblin, who at this moment burst through a condensed cloud, that had arisen unperceived in one corner of the apartment, and appeared before him. "In vain dost thou struggle with the links of destiny. In vain dost thou exert thyself to escape from the fillets that on every side surround thee.
I have, however, generally observed that where much attention has been devoted to the recollection of names, facts, dates, &c., the higher species of intellectual cultivation have been neglected: attention to them, on the other hand, would never involve any neglect of the advantages of memory; for a cultivated intellect can suggest to itself a thousand associative links by which it can be assisted and rendered much more extensively useful than a mere verbal memory could ever be.
Here Jack drew up another chair and I moved to make more room, so that he could sit next to Brocton, to whom he was soon detailing in eager whispers the result of his visit to the town hall. The others took up the broken links of talk, and this gave me an opportunity of inspecting the company. There could be no doubt about the man on my left.
The Northern Pacific was at many stages in its history closely connected with Canadian affairs. It had originally been projected in New England: the first proposal was to use the Central Vermont and a Canadian road to be built or acquired as the eastern links, then, crossing into Michigan, the railway was to strike northwestward to the Pacific.
A full period, then, consists of four divisions, like hexameter verses. In each of these verses, then, there are visible the links, as it were, of the connected series which we unite in the conclusion.
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