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One rod more, and we were out of the woods. It took us a moment to comprehend the scene. Things looked very strange at first; but quickly they began to change and to put on familiar features.
It was the voice of the visitor who had come to the Harris Street house on the previous night, the tall, loosely-built, closely-knit figure in the easily fitting Service-dress that now stepped across the gulf that had suddenly opened between the two old friends, and laid a hand in pleasant, familiar fashion upon Saxham's heavy, rather bowed shoulders.
From the unparalleled splendor of our printing, paper, engraving, illuminating and binding, luxury has caused more books to be purchased, while from the growth of time-absorbing dissipation, it causes fewer to be read. I believe we were much more familiar with our native poets in their former plain garb than since they have been attired in the gorgeous dress which now decorates our shelves."
There was indeed a new sovereign upon the throne. That most regal spirit which had well expressed so many of the highest characteristics of the nation had fled. Mankind, has long been familiar with the dark, closing hours of the illustrious reign.
In his descriptions he often catches the expression of rural scenery, a very different thing from the mere looks, with the trained eye of familiar intimacy. A somewhat shy and hermitical being we take him to be, and more a student of his own heart than of men.
Something in his pose, half rustic, half braggart, seemed familiar to Gaspard. The next second the two were in each other's arms. "Gawain Champernoun!" cried Gaspard. "When I left you by the Isle of Pines I never hoped to meet you again in a Paris inn? What's your errand, man, in this den of thieves?" "Business of state," the Englishman laughed.
They quoted, moreover, this startling explanation of the whole affair: that the magician who exhibited the Veiled Lady and who, by the bye, was the handsomest man in the whole world had bartered his own soul for seven years' possession of a familiar fiend, and that the last year of the contract was wearing towards its close.
"Yes," replied Mr. Ellington, "I visited America a few years ago, but why do you ask?" "Because your features are familiar to me," he answered, and then enquired, "Were you ever in New Orleans." "No, sir no," replied Mr. Ellington, coloring as he spoke, "I was always afraid of the climate."
My voice sounded so feebly, it failed to reach him. I went up to the door and called again: "Amulya!" He had gone. "Who is there?" "Rani Mother!" "Go and tell Amulya Babu that I want him." What exactly happened I could not make out the man, perhaps, was not familiar with Amulya's name but he returned almost at once followed by Sandip.
Yet even here homage was paid, awkwardly indeed and sullenly, to the literary supremacy of our neighbours. The melodious Tuscan, so familiar to the gallants and ladies of the court of Elizabeth, sank into contempt. A gentleman who quoted Horace or Terence was considered in good company as a pompous pedant.
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