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Updated: June 9, 2025
"But ... Ellen ... it ain't seemly to show the natural shape of your body as you're doing." "I've been told my figure's a very good one." "And whoever dared make such a remark to you?" "It was a compliment." "I don't call it any compliment to say such things to a young girl. Besides, what right have you to go showing what you was meant to hide?" "I'm not showing anything I was meant to hide.
On a stepped base, not very different from that in the cave but much larger, sat a figure, draped in a cloak on which was graved a number of stars, doubtless to symbolise the heavens. The fastening of the cloak was shaped like the crescent moon, and the foot-stool on which rested the figure's feet was fashioned to suggest the orb of the sun.
A sheep is worth so much in the market, and I ought to give it and no more. A secretary is worth so much in the market, and I ought to give it and no more. However, I don't mind stretching a point with you. 'Mr Boffin, you are very good, replied the Secretary, with an effort. 'Then we put the figure, said Mr Boffin, 'at two hundred a year. Then the figure's disposed of.
The most striking feature of the figure was a dismal skull, that was outheld from the region of the waist by two great hands placed there arbitrarily and without any relation to the figure's arms; and for a crest repeating the motive of the gate-way it had two serpents' heads, the bodies pertaining to which were twisted and involved about the whole mass.
He tried to make out the man's identity by his figure's outline, but the robes which were piled above him forbade that. Yet within himself he was sure that his guess was correct. What was more likely than that Antoine should have met the fugitive wandering up the Forbidden River, perhaps sick and starving, should have taken his confession and compassionately have brought him back?
Some say that he saw a look on the face of the image that set a horror tingling through his soul, but it is held in Yarnith that he found the marks of instruments of carving about the figure's feet, and discerning thereby that Yarni Zai was wrought by the hands of men, he fled down the valley screaming: "There are no gods, and all the world is lost."
Drawing close, Hal raised his revolver, reversed, and held it ready to bring down on the figure's head the moment they should come together. There was a sudden exclamation from the figure in the tent; and with it Hal dropped his arm; the exclamation was a single word: "Hal!" It was the voice of Chester. Hal stopped abruptly. Stubbs also panted up and came to a halt.
Blanca answered: "She's not the type at all too matter-of-fact. Besides, I don't want a lady; the figure's to be half draped." Hilary smiled. Blanca knew quite well that he was smiling at this distinction between ladies and other women, and understood that he was smiling, not so much at her, but at himself, for secretly agreeing with the distinction she had made. And suddenly she smiled too.
He derived this impression from something in the turn of the head, and in the figure's action of consideration, as it went on at a sufficiently sturdy walk. But when the man for it was a man's figure pushed his hat up at the back of his head, and stopped to consider some object before him, he knew it to be Daniel Doyce. 'How do you do, Mr Doyce? said Clennam, overtaking him.
It was a fatal mistake. He had set in motion the machinery which operated the figure's left arm, and it moved that limb in towards its body, and hugged the sergeant to its breast, with a vice-like grip. Then it started in a faltering and uneven, but dogged, way to walk towards the river. "Immortial Saints!" gasped the sergeant, "he's squazin' the livin' breath out uv me.
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