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In collecting glass, it is usually best not to leave the part of the cylinder next the tube with too thick walls. This is always the coolest part during the preparation for blowing the bulb, consequently it does not get blown out, and causes an ugly thickened appearance on that end of the bulb.
Saying this, she smiled in such a way that the little cloud of jealousy which had darkened the brow of Cornelius speedily vanished. "How was it?" asked the prisoner. "Well, being asked by his friend, my father told at supper the whole story of the tulip, or rather of the bulb, and of his own fine exploit of crushing it." Cornelius heaved a sigh, which might have been called a groan.
The cool green and white of the draperies softened the plainness of the walls, and a huge, round ball made of red and yellow roses and glittering with diamond dust swung from the centre chandelier and glowed in its light. Smaller balls hung from the side-brackets, each enclosing an electric bulb which shone with soft radiance through the vivid red and pale yellow of the roses.
Ella Stewart says Mrs. Armstrong has aged terribly, and looks as if she is hardly able to walk." I lay and thought over some of these things until midnight. The electric lights went out then, fading slowly until there was only a red-hot loop to be seen in the bulb, and then even that died away and we were embarked on the darkness of another night.
Just think what it would mean to see Reddy, here, banging that big cat over the head with his torch! Oh! it's just too mean for any use! Everything goes wrong just when I'm going to squeeze my bulb, and get the best picture there ever was! Even a rotten old log has to go and break off short " "Hey, Will!
He should write to Julia and offer her a smallish sum down in case the bulb proved to be of no great worth, and a promise of a proportional percentage afterwards if it proved valuable.
Now in that night Boxtel would climb over the wall and, as he knew the position of the bulb which was to produce the grand black tulip, he would filch it; and instead of flowering for Cornelius, it would flower for him, Isaac; he also, instead of Van Baerle, would have the prize of a hundred thousand guilders, not to speak of the sublime honour of calling the new flower Tulipa nigra Boxtellensis, a result which would satisfy not only his vengeance, but also his cupidity and his ambition.
"It will go," said Terry as the machine gently slid out into the avenue and started under his guidance. "This is no warpath!" scoffed Billy. "We got to go a lot faster than this, and we got to whoop. Alice, why don't you whoop?" Alice arose, took hold of the seat in front and whooped. "If I open the throttle, I can't squeeze the bulb to scare people out of our way," said Terry.
The answer was a singular sound half a choking cough, half a smothered bark accompanied by a jet of fire from the strange weapon, and coincident with the tinkling of a splintered electric bulb. Instantly the hall was again drenched in darkness but little mitigated by the light from the bedroom. Heedless of consequences, in his excitement, P. Sybarite pulled trigger.
"Hardly in England, I think," said Ben, "but I am not sure, as I was not thereat the time." In 1636, tulips were publicly sold on the Exchange of London. Even as late as 1800 a common price was fifteen guineas for one bulb. Ben did not know that in his own day a single tulip plant, called the "Fanny Kemble", had been sold in London for more than seventy guineas.
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