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The third fly, called "chufwa," pitched a weak alto-crescendo note, was a third larger than the house fly, and had long wings. If this insect sang the feeblest note, it certainly did the most work, and inflicted the most injury. Horses and donkeys streamed with blood, and reared and kicked through the pain.
He had not conned his surroundings that afternoon for nothing, and when they had reached a quiet place among some firs he hung the lantern to the branch of a tree, opening the little ornamental door so that the light streamed out. There was not much of it, but it would serve, and without a word, like two old warriors, they took off their coats.
With a heavy heart I looked round me. The old furniture renewed, perhaps, in one or two places asserted its mute claim to my recognition in every part of the room. The tender moonlight streamed slanting into the corner in which Mary and I used to nestle together while Dame Dermody was at the window reading her mystic books.
She was high up in the tenement and the moonlight came softly over the house roofs of the city into the bare, cold, cheerless room. She stared at the stockings and tears streamed down her wasted cheeks. She had hung them low at the suggestion of the littlest girl so the children could easily get at them in the morning. After a time she fell down on her knees. She pressed them against her face.
He shoved a brown velvet curtain aside and entered a small, dark room which opened from his study. A pressure of the finger upon the blinds caused them to spring open, and the broad daylight streamed through the high windows. The walls, which were hung with brown velvet, formed an octagon, and opposite the broad windows were two pictures in gold frames. The vicomte's look rested on these pictures.
'See! they have placed a light within yon arch: by that let us guide our steps. The air was now still for a few minutes: the lamp from the gate streamed out far and clear: the fugitives hurried on they gained the gate they passed by the Roman sentry; the lightning flashed over his livid face and polished helmet, but his stern features were composed even in their awe!
The plumes of the riders streamed gracefully on the breeze; their feathers shone; their weapons glittered in the bright sunlight. Never was there more complete surprise.
"Opens on the outside," prompted Braceway, "underneath, near the instep." The chief, after fumbling with it a moment, got it open. The jewels streamed to the floor, a little cascade of radiance and colour. He picked them up, getting down on all-fours so as not to miss one. "Don't be unreasonable," Bristow complained as he slipped on another shoe. "Let me have a clean shirt and collar."
The pale light streamed through the small window panes and threw the shadows of the broad framework lattice-wise on Lavinia's bed which was next the window. In daylight she had but to lie on her right side and she could see across the fields and the rising ground each side of the Fleet river to the villages of Islington and Hornsey. Gradually the latticed shadow crept upwards.
We reached Vienna on August first. A startling change had come over the city since I had left it only a few weeks before. Feverish activity everywhere prevailed. Reservists streamed in by thousands from all parts of the country to report at headquarters. Autos filled with officers whizzed past. Dense crowds surged up and down the streets.
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