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Updated: June 9, 2025
To his idea they were only naughty children, their minds reasoning no more clearly than they saw the streets through the tiny little squares of bottle-glass in the windows of their homes. All at once they came face to face with Detricand. The chevalier stopped short with pleased yet wistful surprise.
A fierce gust came howling up the little river between its leaning houses and broke in rain upon the bottle-glass quarrels of the window. Nicky-Nan started, as though it were a hand arresting him. The rain the last, for many weeks, to visit Polpier cleared up soon after midday. The weather and the set of the wind always come first in a Polpier man's interest.
Beside her a long window, warmly curtained, sent out a stream of ruddy light. From the opposite house issued cheery voices and tinkling laughter, and the steam of cooking. And before and behind, whichever way she looked, firelight flashed through diamond panes and glowed in the heart of green bottle-glass.
If it should prove that he has deceived me, let it pass; but if he has been the means of deceiving you there are little things about him that I know, the common gossip of that ancient tavern whose leaded bottle-glass windows watch the sea, which I will tell at once to every judge of my acquaintance, and it will be a pretty race to see which of them will hang him.
Boys, however, were their only dread, and fruit their only care, when they looked complacently at the bottle-glass on the wall, and, so far, they were right in their feeling of security, for boys found the labour, risk, and danger to be greater than the worth of the apples and pears. But it was otherwise with men.
Americans in this matter are more Continental than English in their taste. Was it not in Marseilles that his friends induced Mark Twain to be shaved by a barber worthy of the bottle-glass or sea-shell stage of his profession? They pretended that his performances were equal to those of the barber on board the ship that brought them from America.
All round him was much as he remembered it; he first went to the door and found it securely fastened, as it often was for days together; he glanced at the windows to assure himself that they were bottle-glass too, and then went to them to look out.
"No, no; only that wonderful window of yours the one filled with bottle-glass which always reminds me of a bull's-eye lantern standing on a preserved-beef tin, or the top of a toy lighthouse." Porson peered at the offending window through his spectacles. "Certainly, now you mention it, it does look a little odd from here," he said; "naked, rather.
“What do you mean?” she asked a little faintly, realising dimly that she was being regarded as a fellow-conspirator in some unlawful project. “The wall is high, there is bottle-glass on the top, and I shall find it hard to bring away a fresh pair of trousers, and probably draughty if I don’t.
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