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It seemed to him like watching a locomotive storming across country in the dark a mile between each glare of the open fire-door: but this locomotive could talk, and the words shook and stirred the boy to the core of his soul. At last Cheyne pitched away the cigar-butt, and the two sat in the dark over the lapping water. "I've never told that to any one before," said the father. Harvey gasped.
Elmur stood with his back against a massive carved bookshelf, and looked at Sagan, who, with a cigar-butt buried in his ragged beard, was walking, with long, uncertain steps, up and down the floor. The tiger in the old man was awake. 'Act I., Scene I., said Elmur at last, and with a smile.
I am not in the market." Farnham crushed a bitter oath between his gleaming teeth, and flung his sodden cigar-butt to the floor. "Do you actually mean you are crazy enough to go with Hicks, after all I 've told you?" "I propose to discover for myself whether his claim is just. If it is, I 'm with him."
His square face, with the heavy smudge of bushy black eyebrows over the fierce blue eyes, and the short, blunt, hooked nose, and grim-lipped yet tender mouth, from the corner of which an extinct and forgotten cigar-butt absurdly jutted, bore, like his great gaunt frame, the ravaging traces of the consuming drink-lust.
We made a landfall that afternoon off some of the high ground in North-east Mallorca, and Haigh gave over champing his cold cigar-butt, and delivered himself of an idea. "Isn't there another harbour in Minorca besides Port Mahon?" I said I believed there were some half-dozen small ones. "Any this west side?" "Ciudadella, about in the middle." "Know anything about it?"
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