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Updated: May 18, 2025
We must be very careful; and let us arrange this, Larry, that if there is trouble and we get separated, we will neither of us come back to our lodging, but will meet at that burned-out village three miles along the western road. If anything happens to me, go to the first house I went to, and see Mr. O'Brian, and tell him that I have been taken. If there is anything to be done he will do it.
Not a feature, not a limb, not a fragment of clothing was left undestroyed; yet none the less here, stretched across the bed of the burned-out fire, with face upturned, with one arm doubled beneath the head and the other with clinched hand outflung, lay the image, the counterpart, nay, the identity of the man they sought! It was a death mask, wrought by the pity of the destroying flames.
She saw without compassion the graying hair, the tired eyes of anxiety, the lines of brooding and despondency deepening in faces she remembered as carefree and hopeful, the look of resignation that comes to the weaklings who have lost their grip, the emptiness of burned-out passion, the weary languor of repeated failure she saw it all through the eyes of her relentless hatred.
Adhelmar rode again to Puysange, and as he went he sang. They Kiss at Parting When he had come to Puysange, Adhelmar climbed the stairs of the White Turret, slowly, for he was growing very feeble now, and so came again to Melite crouching among the burned-out candles in the slate-colored twilight which heralded dawn. "He is safe," said Adhelmar.
Men of nervous temperament, like Cecil, can bring out of an exhausted body an energy, an outburst of final and intense effort, of which those of stronger physique do not seem capable. But it drains the remaining vital forces, and the reaction is terrible. Was it this flaming-up of the almost burned-out embers of life that animated Cecil now?
She turned the pages hastily, and finally the fluttering of the sheets stopped. "Oh, yes," she said, "here's the place the rest she's told you. Let me see Oh: 'And, Molly, what do you think? there's a duke after Jeanette a miserable, little, dried-up, burned-out, poverty-stricken Italian duke.
The yawning chasm was not the same. It circled wider, redder, deeper. It was a weird, ghastly mouth of hell. Gale stood fascinated, unable to tell how much he saw was real, how much exaggeration of overwrought emotions. There was no beauty here, but an unparalleled grandeur, a sublime scene of devastation and desolation which might have had its counterpart upon the burned-out moon.
"You have your gun?" he said, as though asking a question. "If you mean business, go ahead. I'll let you get your gun out and then I'll get you and you know it!" And with insulting ease he flicked his burned-out cigarette in the foreman's face. Without a word High Chin whirled his horse and rode toward the hills. Waring sat watching him until Lorry spoke.
"I love you, Lilly." "And I have a husband and a thirteen-year-old child, making of the triangle a rectangle." "You have held me off on that dagger point now for ten years. Good God! women don't martyrize themselves to a past these days. What are you doing with your life? Sacrificing it on the altar of the old burned-out husk of a marriage? Canonizing a mistake!"
I peeped and poked and looked in every possible direction, with my heart in my mouth, and was at last rewarded by catching a glimpse of something yellow moving behind a bush. At the same moment, from another bush opposite me out burst one of the cubs and galloped back toward the burned-out pan.
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