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Only, after the Nineties, or rather before the end of the Nineties, we never settled again with weekly regularity upon one special night out of the seven for the purpose on the contrary, we took, and we now take, our nights as they came and come. They have not been, for that, the less interesting and amusing, not less loud with the sound of battle, not less fragrant with the smell of smoke.
He paused for a moment or two, then added abruptly: "Would you care to go? The matter is important," he went on quietly, "and I am willing to pay you. It means a couple of nights' journey a halt in the mountains during the day and there will be ten thousand francs for you if the 'toys' reach St. Claude safely." I suppose that something in my face betrayed the eagerness which I felt.
Our predecessors in the line seemed to have made no effort to wire this part of the line at all, presumably thinking the line of craters a sufficient protection. A few nights later 2nd Lieut.
Petersburg, a mental condition of such abject misery settled down upon her that the thought of the endless days and nights of idle monotony which would be her lot if she returned home, and the awful void of her mother's absence, became intolerable. She could not do it. She must find some way of escape from such a fate. Just as she was casting about for such a way, Lord Hurdly came to see her.
"The very uncertainty of the action of the currents of the Atlantic which you instance, sir," I said, "shows that what you think impossible might be very possible, and the strange, weird vessel that I saw three nights ago might have come within sight of us again."
So, taking the journey by sufficiently easy stages, sleeping three nights on the way, they calculated to arrive on the eve of the event. The Lady Henrietta would have everything in readiness for them, and her darling Paul was not to be over-hurried. Only guests of the most congenial kind had been invited, and such a number of nice girls!
Denver had to pass Granice's flat on the way to his own, and it became a habit, if he saw a light in the window, and Granice's shadow against the blind, to go in, smoke a pipe, and discuss the universe. "Well this is like old times a good old habit reversed." The editor smote his visitor genially on the shoulder. "Reminds me of the nights when I used to rout you out... How's the play, by the way?
What! do you think my brother is made of iron? Out all night with you then off, with scarce a wink of sleep; then two days and two nights chasing the Combermere, sometimes gaining, sometimes losing, and his credit and his good name hanging on it; then to beat back against wind, heartbroken, and no food on board " "Oh, it is too horrible." "He staggered into me, white as a ghost.
In winter they hibernated there, tangled together in a cluster no doubt; and in summer nights when they were at home, coiled at their ease or gliding ghost-like about their subterranean apartments, I would lie awake and listen to them by the hour. For although it may be news to some closet ophiologists, serpents are not all so mute as we think them.
Then for a thousand and one nights, night after night, she gave him fresh stories, and by the end of that time the Sultan had fallen very much in love with her. Naturally, they lived happily forever after.
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