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Now London meant no more to me at that time than a place where, upon rare occasions, one dined in splendour, went to a huge and gilded music-hall, cultivated a bad headache, and presently sought to ease it by eating a nightmarish supper, and eating it against time.
The reclining position gave her some relief, but that odd, nightmarish over-stimulation continued; in fact, it increased until it became almost unbearable. She closed her eyes only to behold a whirling confusion of shapes and visions. Gradually her mind became peopled by distorted fancies. The moments crept on and the phantasmagoria continued... Lilas realized at last that she was ill.
Everything in that place was strained and uneasy and abnormal the candle shades on the table, the mass of faked china fruit in the centre dish, the gaudy hangings and the nightmarish walls. But the food was magnificent. It was the best dinner I had eaten since 1914. 'Tell me, Mr Brand, said Miss Doria, her long white face propped on a much-beringed hand. 'You are one of us?
'Nightmarish' isn't an exaggeration, honestly. By all the empty, senseless conventions I ought to seal my lips on my love and to go dumbly away, because I'm engaged to Ruth Gardner." He turned abruptly to her. "Do you think I should?" Her hands were locked together in a clasp that expelled the blood and left them white. Her regard had the intentness of a stare.
Keith, ever avid of fresh things, regretted his lost opportunities. He was in one of this acquisitive, Corsair moods. He said: "I could take geology by the throat just now. It's disgusting, not to know things!" His companion, meanwhile, beheld the panorama in all its nightmarish splendour, as it drifted past him.
When he had successfully started the car, and they were sliding down the Moorthorne hill together, side by side, their shoulders touching, Denry threw off the nightmarish effect of the bankrupt household. After all, there was no reason why he should be depressed. He was not a bankrupt. He was steadily adding riches to riches. He acquired wealth mechanically now.
It had something nightmarish in it, as, for instance, the dream of a wild sea-bird loaded with chains. Yet what else could he want to look at? Her beauty would sometimes come to his heart with the force of a spell, so that he would forget where he was.
"You know, Fyne," I said, "a man in jail seems to me such an incredible, cruel, nightmarish sort of thing that I can hardly believe in his existence. Certainly not in relation to any other existences." "But dash it all," cried Fyne, "he isn't shut up for life. They are going to let him out. He's coming out! That's the whole trouble. What is he coming out to, I want to know?
The car raced on down the persistently empty road; the few houses they passed might have been tenantless for any signs of human life about them. In the far distance Patsy could see a suspension-bridge, and she wished and wished it might be closed for repairs something, anything to bring to an end this hideous, nightmarish ride. She groaned inwardly at the thought of it all.
"We can't make it!" Tom gasped. "We'll have to fight!" Both swimmers were armed with skin diver's knives as a precaution. The two maneuvered to meet the killer's onslaught. This time its broad nightmarish head was aiming straight at Tom. He jetted off to the right, but the monster veered instantly. Its lashing tail gave Mel a stunning blow.
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