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She dreamed that she was descending endless stairs and dark corridors, with a heavy, shapeless burden on her shoulders. A bright, constantly-changing flame flickered before her; now red, now yellow, now green, it flitted before her from side to side. She knew that if she could reach it, the burden would fall from her.
Young Brian?" "Don't you approve?" said Saltash. "I don't think it'll come off," said Larpent with decision. "Why not?" An odd light flickered in the younger man's eyes for an instant. "Are you going to refuse your consent?" "I?" Larpent shrugged his shoulders. "Are you going to give yours?" Saltash made an elaborate gesture. "I shall bestow my blessing with both hands."
But this sense of the absurdity of the situation which played upon the surface of his distress flickered and fled at sight of his wife bustling cheerfully about, and he was tempted to go down and get Barker out of the house, and out of Boston if possible, without letting her know anything of his presence. "Well?" said Mrs. Sewell, meeting his face of perplexity with a penetrating glance.
The lamp flickered and died down, but we didn't trouble to relight it. Outside the night grew darker and darker, and through the open hatch we could just see a solitary star shining down on us from between two banks of cloud. Cool and sweet, a faint breeze drifted in from the silent marshes. Then, quite suddenly, it seemed to me, a strange madness and music filled the night for both of us.
Indeed, her candle of vital religion had well-nigh flickered out. Scarcely a member could be found who would testify to a real experience of salvation from sin. There were three things for which the members of this particular church were remarkable, namely, they were great sticklers for the faith of their church, they were all holiness-fighters, they all used tobacco in some form.
Then and nothing else, for how could any one doubt it, on seeing the fresh roses on their cheeks, and the tender flame which flickered like a mystic night-light in their eyes, which had, for the moment, become the eyes of innocent young girls again?
They clumped out to the livery buggy, they packed the kit and the box of lunch into the back, crying to each other that it was a magnificent day. Kennicott had borrowed Jackson Elder's red and white English setter, a complacent dog with a waving tail of silver hair which flickered in the sunshine.
His eyes, burning now with a grim light, flickered over Gerald's person and found nothing in it to entertain them. He saw a slouching figure in shirt-sleeves and the foundations of evening dress, a disgusting, degraded figure with pink eyes and a white face that needed a shave. And all the doubts that had ever come to vex Mr.
Again the flame of life went down, and again flickered up in pain. "Harry you'll stay by father and help him, won't you? This cruel war is almost over. Don't cry. Kiss me. Say do you remember the old times we had fishing? Kiss me again, Harry brother in blue you're on my side. Oh I wish I had time to tell you. Come close put your arms around my neck it's old times again."
But these were questions the answers to which had to be deferred for the present, for it began to appear doubtful if they had arrived in time to fan the wanderer's vital spark back into flame. But at length their ministrations met with their reward. The man's eyelids flickered and a deep sigh escaped his lips. Before long they could press the water canteen to his mouth.
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