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It is possible, that, in smoking one hundred grains of tobacco, there may be drawn into the mouth two grains or more of the same poison; "for, as nicotin volatilizes at a temperature below that of burning tobacco, it is constantly present in the smoke." It is not probable that here, again, so much is absorbed.
And thro' Elvira's gate, where spreads A prospect wide and free, He marked how Phoebus shot his rays Upon the Spanish sea; And bending to the land his eye To notice how the scene Of summer had its color changed To black from radiant green, He saw that, thro' the gate there passed A light that was not day's, Whose splendor, like a dazzling cloud, Eclipsed the solar rays.
We may imagine that eagles find it difficult to pair when they become scarce in their localities; and we all know how hard it has sometimes been to get comme il faut husbands when there has been any number of Protestant princesses on hand. Some such difficulty had, doubtless, brought it about that the countess was still surrounded by her full bevy of maidens.
He eyed her solemnly and said that if she were minded to wed this roaring boy they might both, and soon, earn fortunes to buy them land in a distant shire. The young Poins, in his scarlet and black, drew his sister into a corner of the hall in which the gentry of the Lords that were there had already dined.
And you know very well that if we left them to-morrow there would be the devil to pay. Do we get a penny out of them?" "Oh, no!" laughed Magin. "You administer them purely on altruistic principles, for their own good and that of the world at large like the oil-wells of the Karun!" "Well, since you put it that way," laughed Matthews in turn, "perhaps we do!" Magin shrugged his shoulders.
Carried away by the excitement of the idea, she found a daily paper and sat down in the dainty room prepared for her with so much loving care by Aunt Virginia not three months ago, to study the time-table and lay her plans. There was a through train at half-past eight at night which would exactly suit. She could steal away after supper.
Ghek had evidently hoped to placate her after marriage by things of that sort and had spent lavishly for them. Now, throughout the castle there were many and diverse noises. Sometimes not often there was still the crackling hum of a stun-pistol. There were many more exuberant shoutings. They apparently had to do with loot. There were some squealings in female voices, but many more gigglings.
Mr Dorrit could erect no hum suspicion of that kind on Mr Gowan's frankness. 'Again you are very good, said Gowan. 'Mr Dorrit, I hear you are going to Rome. I am going to Rome, having friends there. Let me begin to do you the injustice I have conspired to do you, there not here.
"I'm I'm all right," the youth declared, finally shaking off the feeling which had numbed him. "Let me get a grip on your boat there! Now you can paddle ashore. I'll not lose my hold this time." "Right it is, then." The rescuer paddled slowly toward the bateaus.
He had destroyed his own happiness that was nothing; he could battle it out, and nobody be the wiser or the worse, save himself; but he had blighted Lucy's. There was the sting that tortured him.
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