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More wood! more wood! to appease that great flaming monster that shot tongues of fire now to the very heavens. More wood! more wood!" "Look out, the police!" They came, with their truncheons, in a line down the Common. Olva was flung into the heart of a heaving mass of legs and arms. He caught a glimpse of Bunning behind and he thought that he saw Craven a little to his right.
In the afternoon a fine herd of deer was descried and the Indians, who are always anxious for the chase and can hardly be restrained from pursuing every animal they see, set out immediately. It was late when they returned, having had good success and bringing with them five tongues and the shoulder of a deer. We made about twelve miles this day.
“They are the seven deadly sins, who would each have a tongue for itself, and yet without tongues are enough to frighten Rank,” answered the princess. “And who am I, then,” asked Pedro, “to be so exalted now?” “You are the wise man who strove to do his best, yet tried not to exalt himself above his position,” sweetly answered the princess.
The temperature mysteriously fell more and more, until it was cold, very cold. And those pale, heatless flames, icy as serpent tongues played along the darkening heavens, and mocked at us who craved warmth and shelter. I felt my own body shiver. She looked at me startled. "You are cold," said she. "No," I answered, "only angry because I am so weak." We sat silent for very long intervals.
'He! he! he! said the man in black; 'that is more than Mezzofante could have done for a stanza of Byron. 'A clever man, said I. 'Who? said the man in black. 'Mezzofante di Bologna. 'He! he! he! said the man in black; 'now I know that you are not a gypsy, at least a soothsayer; no soothsayer would have said that 'Why, said I, 'does he not understand five-and-twenty tongues?
But I didn't mind it, not I; and I didn't give her word or look in reply; for well I know that women's tongues cannot be stopped, not even by the Fourth Commandment." Then Andrew sat down and was silent, for a happiness like his is felt, and not expressed.
Even as Macpherson, ingenious, if not ingenuous, gathered Ossian from the lips of Highland hussifs, and made the world with modern Attila to back it, wonder at the stores that are hived on old wives' tongues; even so might any other literary, black-smith hammer from the ore of common gossip a regular Vulcan's net of superstitious "facts."
I said that you were the chosen Emperor of the Faithful, the coming king of the world, but he replied that the prophets of old taught their disciples with their own tongues." It was a bold lie, but the Khalifa was flattered, and made a motion of assent.
Hugh Crombie was one for whom most of the wise men, who considered the course of his early years, had predicted the gallows as an end before he should arrive at middle age. That these prophets of ill had been deceived was evident from the fact that the doomed man had now passed the fortieth year, and was in more prosperous circumstances than most of those who had wagged their tongues against him.
Thinking of that which was to come, his mouth twitched to a smile; he flattered himself he had kept his neighbours well scandalised during his life; now, from his death-bed, he would send widening circles of amazement over the whole county, and set tongues clacking and heads wagging at the last freak of that old reprobate, Ruan of Cloom.
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