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After a few mathematical details, he returns to things closer to his heart, the Church's atmosphere of holiness, the emblematic radiance of the candle's light, the ecstasy of worshippers who seemed "to breathe the air of Paradise." And Saint Gregory's is the religious, uncritical spirit of his day, whose interest was in ecclesiastical establishment rather than ecclesiastical architecture.
For it was the body of Josef, the little servant, slain in guarding the King. I felt a hand on my shoulders, and, turning, saw Sapt, eyes glaring and terror-struck, beside me. "The King? My God! the King?" he whispered hoarsely. I threw the candle's gleam over every inch of the cellar. "The King is not here," said I. His Majesty Sleeps in Strelsau
I have sometimes, by means of sitting up in bed, holding the book high, and using great concentration, devoured a whole chapter between the first sputtering sound of the candle's death-rattle and the moment of its actual demise. Indeed, I have more than once finished a chapter, when within half a page of it, by matchlight. But that, of course, was gross extravagance.
'I take it, you think we doctors can work miracles. 'Quite the reverse, Sir, retorted Dangerfield, with a cold scoff. 'But you say he may possibly live six weeks more; and all that time the wick is smouldering, though the candle's short can't you blow it in, and give us even one minute's light?
And in one little distant corner of the long room a gray-haired gentleman and two young ladies sat round a small plain table, on which burned a solitary candle; and a little way apart in this candle's twilight an old lady sat in an easy-chair, thinking of the past, scarce daring to inquire the future. Josephine and Rose were working: not fancy-work but needle-work; Dr. Aubertin writing.
There, you're up now safe. Yonder candle's the house." "Go and ask whether they can give us a night's lodging." "Is it ask? when I see the light! Sure they'd be proud to give the traveller all the beds in the house, let alone one. Take care of the potatoe furrows, that's all, and follow me straight. I'll go on to meet the dog, who knows me, and might be strange to your honour."
'I'm i' bed, and canna be bothered; candle's aat, and we ha' no matches upstairs; go home and come agean in th' mornin', and I'll lend the' some. Remember me to the' friend, good-noight: whereupon he shuffles daan into bed agean, and tries to compose himsen to sleep.
So a candle is a little gas manufactory in itself, that burns the gas as fast as it makes it." "Haven't you pretty nearly come to your candle's end'!" said Mr. Wilkinson. "Nearly. I only want to tell uncle, that the burning of a candle is almost exactly like our breathing. Breathing is consuming oxygen, only not so fast as burning.
"On'y here, Master Mark," replied the boy. "Candle's gone out." "Why, Dummy! Have we been to sleep?" "I s'pose so, Master Mark. Po-o-o-o-f-f-uf! There we are!" He had obtained a light, the match burning up brightly, and then the candle, after the fluffy wick had been burnt and blown. "How tiresome! I don't know, though. I feel rested."
Yet the impression made upon Rodriguez was as of some old darkness that had been long undisturbed and that yielded reluctantly to that candle's intrusion, a darkness that properly became the place and was a part of it and had long been so, in the face of which the candle appeared an ephemeral thing devoid of grace or dignity or tradition.
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