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It shares the grasp the spongy moss may take on the slippery surface, or when the root, thin as whipcord, of a certain fig-tree has crept across the face of the grey rock forming a ridge or barricade against which decayed vegetation accumulates, there the BAEA flourishes, displaying an indeterminate line of mauve flowers above oval, crimpled leaves.
Smith there should be nothing of that kind. He thinks classical allusions corrupting. Of course he's wrong good people always are but perhaps we ought to humour him, as he is the curate, you know." Esmé assented with a graceful bend of his crimpled head, and in a clear and deliberate voice began to speak.
And without looking he could see that horrible, red stream creeping toward him like some monster in a nightmare. His flesh crimpled with physical repulsion, but he meant to try; perhaps he could shoot the man in the mask, so that there would be another huddled, lifeless Thing on the floor, and another creeping red stream.
'Do you think he is dying, Rosey? asked the Colonel, approaching the bedside. 'Shore, massa, he'm gwine fass. Look at 'em. The boy had dwindled to a skeleton, and the skin lay on his face in crimpled folds, like a mask of black crape. His eyes were fixed, and he was evidently going. 'Don't you know massa, my boy? said the Colonel, taking his hand tenderly in his.
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