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Colonel Wind, however, succeeded in bursting in, overturning a few light articles, causing the flames to sway, leap, and roar wildly, and scattering ashes all over the room, but his triumph was short-lived. The instant the visitors entered he was locked out, and the door shut against him with a bang. "It do come rather awkward, sir, 'avin' no entrance 'all," said David, as he made the door fast.
It remained suspended for a while exactly over the city of Paris, as if to wait till public curiosity was fully satisfied, then, having reached a height at which it encountered a more rapid current of air, it suddenly disappeared, driven by the wind towards the south.
He extended his hand again, but she repeated, in her soft, deceitful voice, "Yes, a perfectly beautiful night." Then he observed Sylvia Whitman standing beside them. "It is a nice night enough," said she, "but you'll both catch your deaths of cold at this open window. The wind is blowing right in on you."
This, however, was a difficult task just then, as the wind was behind them. When geese, as a general thing, wish to quickly rise up high in the air, they turn and go against the wind. In some way or other it speedily seems to lift them up.
A wind entered the night outlining itself in the wild undulations of the rain reaching for the pavements. Dorn forgot his companion, as they pressed on. Disheveled rain ghosts crowded around him. The fever that had burned in him during the day seemed to have become a part of the storm. The leap and hollow blaze of the lightnings gave him a companionship.
It was almost dark when we drove home through the narrow lanes; the hedgerows glimmered strangely in the dusk; a fresh sea-ladened wind blew in our faces across the downs, the lights shone from the Preventive station, and across the vague mist glimmered a star or two. How fragrant and still it was, only the soft washing of the waves on the beach to break the silence!
There are three or four hundred vessels in the same predicament. The wind has been such that it has been impossible for any of them to get under weigh; but I must confess I feel considerably anxious on your account.... After I had finished it I was displeased with it, and concluded not to offer it, but to attempt another.
He's breathin' like the north wind sighin' through a knot-hole." He watched her disappear. "For the sight o' a good woman, O Lord, we thank Thee," he murmured, "an' for the sight o' a good woman with grit, we thank Thee some more. Great grief, why wasn't I born good an' good-lookin' 'stead o' fat an' no account?"
Then for a whole month the South Wind blew without ceasing, and no other wind arose, save only the East and the South. 'Now so long as my company still had corn and red wine, they refrained them from the kine, for they were fain of life.
Nicholas's dog-driver stared, winked, and wiped his weeping, smoke-reddened eyes. "Is he in there?" Mac looked towards the tent. Andrew nodded between coughs. "What's he doing in there? Call him out," ordered Mac. "He no walk." Mac's hard face took on a look of cast-iron tragedy. The wind, veering round again, had brought the last words to the priest on the other side of the fire.
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