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He began to start objections with respect to the borrowed armour; he wanted to stipulate the comforts of a can of flip, and a candle's end, during his vigil; and hinted something of the damage he might sustain from your malicious imps of darkness.
It's dark beyond the candle's flare where run the roads of night. My brother and I have become sleepy. We lop over against my grandfather We awake with a start. There is a gayly lighted horse-car jingling beside us. The street lights show us into harbor. We are home at last. The Man Of Grub Street Comes From His Garret
I find myself, by my expense in bands and clothes this month, abated a little of my last, and that I am worth L679 still; for which God be praised. So home and to bed with quiett mind, blessed be God, but afeard of my candle's going out, which makes me write thus slubberingly. 27th.
Only the candle flames danced drunkenly in a puff of air, flaunting their secret knowledge of the tenant they had lighted. He darted to the tumbled bed and flung aside the covers; he looked beneath it and beneath the couch; he sent a candle's light traveling about the empty whiteness of the bath. No little figure, pitifully silenced, was, hidden there. The room was empty.
He opened the glass of the dull lamp, whose wick, burnt up and swollen like a drunkard's nose, came flying off in little carbuncles at the candle's touch, and scattering hot sparks about, rendered it matter of some difficulty to kindle the lazy taper; when a noise, as of a man snoring deeply some steps higher up, caused him to pause and listen.
Though they talked about the place and cursed it, yet, like moths singed by the candle's flame, they had returned spring after spring to the Hood Gate Tavern to spend the wages needed at home. Their money, too, was awaiting them there in the Company's office. But now they hesitated. Never before had such a thing been known. Formerly there was a rush to the town when the last log had come in.
It is to cast the torterilla at the tiger, and, if possible, get the barbed point to penetrate the creature's skin, and there stick. He makes the attempt, and succeeds. First having put the primed end into the candle's flame, and set the fuse on fire, he launches the "Devil" with such sure aim, that it is seen to fix itself in the jaguar's back, just over the right shoulder.
'I should have been the better for something of this kind, in my last garden expedition, at night; eh, Sam? said Mr. Pickwick, looking good-humouredly round at his follower, who was trudging behind. 'Wery nice things, if they're managed properly, Sir, replied Mr. Weller; 'but wen you don't want to be seen, I think they're more useful arter the candle's gone out, than wen it's alight. Mr.
Having proved his trial candle's rate, he blew it out I have already shown it to you and put his inch-marks on a fresh one. "He put the fresh one into a tin candlestick. Then at the five-hour mark he bored a hole through the candle with a red-hot wire. I have already shown you the wire, with a smooth coat of tallow on it tallow that had been melted and had cooled.
But their eyes met, their glances conquered the dimness of the candle's light and spoke to one another. Rain beat and wind howled outside. Dieppe heard nothing but an outspoken confession that left honour safe and inviolate, and yet told him the sweetest thing that he could hear a thing so sweet that for the instant its sadness was forgotten.
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