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Whirling torrents of steam were pouring up from the advancing waters, which had rushed, it must be remembered, through nearly incandescent gaps in the sea defences, and this vast uprush of vapour soon veiled the flaring centres of explosion altogether. 'The waters came at last, an advancing cascade. It was like a broad roller sweeping across the country. They came with a deep, roaring sound.
And as he stood there, his long, aged sunken face, on which life's hardships had left their mark, seemed transformed by the wondrous brilliancy of his flaring, dreamy eyes. Enthusiasm bore him up he was going to his death in all the splendour of his dream.
Greville had prophesied, he found the little town in a decidedly lively condition. Barrels of wine were being broached in the streets by the light of flaring torches, and most of the men were in an excited condition. The Cheap Jacks were still doing a brisk trade, and at the jewelry stall Everard was able to buy the souvenir he wanted for Carmel.
The next morning Hemanta, fagged after a sleepless night, and looking like one distracted, called at the house of Peari Sankar Ghosal. "What news, my son?" Peari Sankar greeted him. Hemanta, flaring up like a big fire, said in a trembling voice: "You have defiled our caste. You have brought destruction upon us. And you will have to pay for it." He could say no more; he felt choked.
"Read all about de cop and de millionaire dat captured de white slavers!" The lad shoved a paper at Bobbie, who tossed him a nickel and hurried on, quizzically glancing at the flaring headlines which featured the name of Reggie Van Nostrand and his own. The quickly made illustrations, showing his picture, the machine of the young clubman, and the house of slavery were startling.
"Well, that's all right, now," said Colonel Manysnifters, flaring up, "we don't expect you Northerners to feel as we do about it! We " "Come, come, Manysnifters," said Senator Bull pacifically, "don't get excited. Don't let the 'nigger in the wood-pile' spoil this occasion. Calm yourself." "Oh, I'm not excited.
An armed watchman stood before the tightly closed front of the lapidary's booth, above the portal of which a flaring torch was stuck in a sconce. "The house of Atsu?" the watchman repeated after Kenkenes. "Atsu is no longer a householder in Memphis." "When did he depart?" "Eight or nine months ago, at the persuasion of the Pharaoh."
The many flaring gasoline torches outside, however, cast a radiance that enabled Andy to pretty accurately make out the situation. He traced two shadowy figures making a circuit of the tent. He could see Marco push back Wagner. The latter was unsteady of gait and voice. Andy theorized that he had been commissioned by his aunt to pursue him. Wagner had come down to Centreville with two assistants.
These shows were always given at nighttime; a circle of torch-bearers surrounded the stage in the center, and above, all the tiers of seats were dark. He would look up at the soft blue of the summer sky, and at the vast dim mountain hovering like a cloud in the west, and then at the scene illumined by a flaring light, and contrasted with violent shadows.
"But it must be the end, Marie," he urged, firmly. "It is costing me more than you can know, but I must positively be free." "I know it," she answered. "I will let you alone, Dick. You may marry you may do as you like from now on." "Then it is positively settled," he said, a new light flaring in his eyes. "For good and all, we understand each other."
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