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Already he floated above the common world, looking down upon its tortured contours and half-defaced frontiers for the true poet is a fakîr who quits his physical body at the beck of inspiration, to return laden with strange secrets. Jules Thessaly's letter explaining his extraordinary breach of good behaviour had been characteristic of the man.
We have heard of so many of your predictions coming true, that we are really anxious that you should tell us something of the future. "The fakir nodded his head, went into the temple, and returned in a minute or two with two small pipes used by the natives for opium smoking, and a brazier of burning charcoal. The pipes were already charged.
Brown swung the Beluchi out in front of him where he could hear the fakir better. "I'll hang you, remember, after I've hanged him, if anything goes wrong!" "He is saying, sahib, exactly what you said." "He'd better! Listen now! Listen carefully! Look out for tricks!" The fakir paused a second from his high-pitched monologue, and a murmur from the darkness answered him.
With his own hand he took the noose from his neck and, now that the flames had died away to nothing but spasmodic spurts above a dull red underglow, there was no one in the watching ring who could see Brown's sword-point. Only Brown and the fakir knew that it was scratching at the skin between the fakir's shoulder-blades. "It is done!" said the fakir presently. "Now take me back to my dais again!"
That is why I hate to see a girl like Viola Lambert put in their class by a self-seeking fakir like Clarke." "Is he self-seeking or is he only a fanatic?" asked Kate. "I believe him to be quite sincere that's why he's so dangerous. He is willing to walk hot plough-shares to advance his faith. What are his relations to Viola? Do you suppose she has actually promised to marry him?"
He moved just as I fired, and though I hit him, it was not on the fatal spot, and he charged right down among us. He caught the very three men the fakir said were doomed, and dashed the life out of them; then he came at me. The bearer had run off with my second gun, and he seized me and flung me up in the air.
In India they fear and hate the very name of the spirits whom the Spiritualists venerate so deeply, yet many an ignorant fakir can perform "miracles" calculated to turn upside-down all the notions of a scientist and to be the despair of the most celebrated of European prestidigitateurs.
Too long hast thou sat there, on crossed legs, wearing thy ankle-joints to horn; like some sacred Anchorite, or Catholic Fakir, doing penance, drawing down Heaven's richest blessings, for a world that scoffed at thee. Be of hope! Already streaks of blue peer through our clouds; the thick gloom of Ignorance is rolling asunder, and it will be Day.
When the fakir was put back on the stone, he and it at once resumed their appearance, as of one single body, solidly joined to the ground, and not a line of the fakir's body had changed. By all appearance, his bending body and his head thrown backward sought to bring him down; but for this fakir there was evidently no such thing as the law of gravity.
These fakir academies are not only a disgrace but a danger in America, and here, as in other matters, Germany has a right to smile grimly at certain of our hobbledehoy methods of government.
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