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The factory hooters would sound: the boy would come to his senses, swallow down his mouthful, take a long drink at the Wallace fountain near by, slip back into his hunchbacked shell, and go limping and hobbling back to his place in the printing works in front of the cases of magic letters which would one day write the Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin, of the Revolution.
Joanna changed for it into smart, stiff silk blouses, with a great deal of lace and guipure about them, while Ellen wore a rest-gown of drifting black charmeuse. Mene Tekel was promoted from the dairy to be Ansdore's first parlourmaid, and wore a cap and apron, and waited at table.
He dreaded not so much the revelation, for he could reply to or deny its truth; he cared little for that mene, tekel, upharsin, which appeared suddenly in letters of blood upon the wall; but what he was really anxious for was to discover whose hand had traced them.
But a sign shall be seen this night amongst them MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN, shall be read on these walls, as distinctly as the spectral handwriting made them visible on those of Belshazzar!" "For God's sake," said I, dreadfully alarmed, "it is impossible you can meditate violence in such a presence!"
See I not in yonder letters a 'Mene, mene, Tekel, Upharsin'? Look to thyself, Batuschca." And I remained for two hours, leaning against the wall, staring at the shop.
The 'MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN' that glittered in unearthly characters on the wall at Belshazzar's feast, was written by electricity; and the Chaldean kings and priests understood a great many secrets of another form of electric force which the world to-day scoffs at and almost ignores I mean human electricity, which we all possess, but which we do not all cultivate within us.
Joanna was not the kind to waste her emotions in the sphere of thought. She burst out of the room, and nearly knocked over Mene Tekel, who was on her way to Ellen with a jug of hot water. "Give that to me," she said, and went to her sister's door, at which she was still sufficiently demoralized to knock. "Come in," said Ellen. "I've brought you your hot water."
Tekel: you are weighed in the scales and found wanting. Peres: your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians." Then at Belshazzar's command Daniel was clothed with purple and a chain of gold was put about his neck, and he was proclaimed the third ruler in the kingdom. But on that very night Belshazzar, the Chaldean king, was killed, and Darius, the Mede, received the kingdom.
Tolhurst, Ellen, Mene Tekel she had never written so many letters in her life, but every day she thought of some fresh thing that would be left undone if she did not write about it. When she had finished her letters she went out and listened respectfully to the band. The afternoon was generally given up to some excursion or charabanc drive, and the day finished rather somnolently in the lounge.
Without reflecting, without hesitation, he ran toward the house, and thanks to his stylish clothes and determined mien, easily secured admittance. While these short scenes were occurring in the street, in the dining-kiosk of the greater gods there was passed from hand to hand a piece of parchment on which were written in red ink these fateful words: Mene, Tekel, Phares Juan Crisostomo Ibarra
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