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I think I shall give them both notice, and advertise at once. They say that advertising is the best way. The fish was ill fried, the eggs were hard, the toast was soot-smeared. For the moment Alma made no remark; but half an hour later, when Harvey and the child had rambled off to the sea-shore, she summoned both domestics, and demanded an explanation of their behaviour.
"If you can't get your own consent to use it, give it to me when I've emptied the other." She breathed a dismayed "Yes ..." and wonderingly consulted his face, since he did not stir other than thoughtfully to replace his pistol on the desk, then stood staring at his soot-smeared palms. "What is it?" she demanded nervously. "Why do you hesitate?"
In my brief interview with her in the twilight of the evening before I had heard only the ridiculous jargon of a woman without a palate, and I had seen only an old crone with a soot-smeared face. But now the maimed voice echoed in my ears like the sound of the little old melodeon with the broken strings which had been my mother's. "I must be going now," she said, rising with an effort.
The train was jolting slowly over cross- tracks in some dismal suburb, full of long soot-smeared warehouses and endless rows of freight cars, beyond which lay brown marshland and slate-grey stretches of water. "God! that must be the Atlantic Ocean," cried Fuselli in excitement. "Ain't yer never seen it before? That's the Perth River," said Bill Grey scornfully. "No, I come from the Coast."
Patches of white heat glare from the opened furnace doors like the teeth of some great dark, dingy devil grinning across the smoky vapors of the Pit. Half naked, soot-smeared fellows fight the furnace hearths with hooks, rabbles and paddles. Their scowling faces are lit with fire, like sailors manning their guns in a night fight when a blazing fire ship is bearing down upon them.
Tell me, in your long journey from the brink, have ye chanced to see a cleft mountain with two peaks on either hand?" "You mean, master " "A mountain; a high jut of land, with two tops, side by side like two grave-mounds?" Rigvin stood a moment in thought, his soot-smeared brows wrinkled with the effort of trying to remember. Then all at once he looked up quickly with a smile.
The old tie had given way, and they came down with a rush, to the intense astonishment of all; but the distance to fall was only about five feet, and the wonder connected with the fall was as nothing to that felt by Helen and her father, as the smallest figure of the trio struggled to his feet, and revealed the dusty, soot-smeared face of Dexter, with his eyes staring wildly from the Doctor to Helen and back again.
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