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"You assure me she can not leave her bed for two weeks to come?" he continued, anxiously. "I can safely promise that," replied the doctor, wondering at the strange, satisfied smile that flitted like a meteor over his companion's face for one brief instant. "This will defray her expenses in the meantime," he said, putting a few crisp bank-notes into the doctor's hand.
"Hardly at all. He is a recent comer among us." "Well, I shall probably want to make his acquaintance, later." "Have a care, then. He is very jealous of his precious meteor, and guards the ruins of the barn, where it lies, with a shot gun." "Indeed? He promises to be an interesting study. Meantime, I'd like to look at your son's clothes." From a closet Mr.
He held out a flat, insulated disk, cover thrown back to reveal a tiny golden meteor, at the sight of which the officer's truculent manner altered markedly.
This celebrated star, first seen by Tycho Brahe in the constellation Cassiopeia, never changed its position, or presented the slightest perceptible parallax. It could not therefore have been a meteor, nor a planet regularly revolving round the sun, nor a comet blazing with fiery nebulous light, nor a satellite of one of the planets, but a fixed star, far beyond our solar system.
The rest of the night we passed in melancholy conjectures on the light which had deserted us, which the major part of the sailors concluded to be a meteor.
Certainly, if the meteor kindled up the sky, and disclosed the earth, with an awfulness that admonished Hester Prynne and the clergyman of the day of judgment, then might Roger Chillingworth have passed with them for the arch-fiend, standing there with a smile and scowl, to claim his own.
"Oh, I know all," she cried; "don't speak nay, wait now till I return." And the creature was off like a September meteor disappearing in the west, as if to make up again to the sun, far down away behind the hills from whence it had been struck off in the height of the day. What can the strange creature mean?
Then he saw a strong, thick rainbow burning at the edge of the fog, a jewel laid in cotton wool. Its arch just reached the top of the bank, and one brilliant foot was planted on Meteor Island. "That signifies that I shall soon be out of my trouble," he thought, joyfully. The fog lifted; the green shore stood out again mistily, then more vividly, like a creation of the brain.
By this time the curiosity of the English chevaliers was partly gratified in beholding the Hippogriff at rest, and Rogero, to renew their surprise and delight, remounted the animal, and, slapping spurs to his sides, made him launch into the air with the rapidity of a meteor, and directed his flight still westwardly, till he came within sight of the coasts of Ireland.
"Patience, monseigneur, for you do not know what Colbert is study him quickly; it is with this dark financier as it is with meteors, which the eye never sees completely before their disastrous invasion; when we feel them we are dead." "Oh! Gourville, this is going too far," replied Fouquet, smiling; "allow me, my friend, not to be so easily frightened; M. Colbert a meteor!
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