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At the same time he put the finishing touch to his picture, and when hung upon his wall, between their photographs, Suzette danced before it, and took half the credit upon herself. Foolish Suzette! she did not know how that old man was her most dangerous rival. He had done what no beautiful woman in France could do weakened her grasp upon Ralph Flare's heart.
This bread and coffee, and a pear which they should eat at noon, would give them strength to labor till nightfall brought its frugal repast. Yet they were happy as crickets, and a great deal more noisy. Here is little Suzette, smiling and skipping, and driving her glances straight into Ralph Flare's heart.
And so, with much unconscious sentimentality, and the two old market people silent before him, Ralph Flare's eyes half closed also, and the lull of the wheels, the long lake streaks of the sedative skies, the coming of great shadows like compulsions to slumber, made his forehead fall and the world go up and down and darken.
As he spoke a few more sparks descended upon Silantiev's scalp and wet cheeks, and went out, while the flare's reflection so played in the ball of Silantiev's eye as to communicate to it an added appearance of death.
I shall not forget this fortitude when I have done with the schooner." "Flare close aboard!" roared Stumpy; then: "Seize my soul if I see the boat, though, mistress. Satan! Now the flare's gone out!" "Whereaway?" cried Dolores shrilly. Big Milo was out there in the blackness. "Right under the bows!" bellowed the lookout. "Luff, or bear away; ye'll run him down!"
He had slept longer than he intended and though he had asked Bessie to call him when she came back on duty two hours earlier, he had not been called. "You needed the sleep, captain," she told him unrepentant. "I checked with the Cow. The flare's predicted to continue for another eight hours. We're simply in standby." However, various observatories on Earth had not been asleep.
"We shouldn't be too far off-orbit by the time the flare's over, either, even with that jet constant. It'll take quite a bit of work, but we should be able to get her back into position with not too many hours of lost worktime. "Except for Thule, I'd say we got off fairly light. "Yes," he added grimly, "it looks like that's what your saboteur was.
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