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Updated: June 23, 2025
For now that she was in the room all their fear and wonder had vanished. It was dusk, and so they lighted all the candles and poked the fire, before they turned to entertain their guest. But the candles did not burn very well, very faintly and flickeringly, and the fire fell lower and lower, instead of growing higher and higher as they nursed it.
"I like you awfully, I say," he repeated. "Thanks, I'm sure," she said. The others were laughing, sprawling in their chairs, and sipping curacao and taking a sandwich or a cigarette. Aaron Sisson alone sat upright, smiling flickeringly. Josephine watched him, and her pointed tongue went from time to time over her lips. "But I'm sure," she broke in, "this isn't very interesting for the others.
She was sitting there before him the mother of his children, of the sleeping ones, of the buried ones the butterfly broken on the wheel of years: lustreless and useless now in its summer. She sat there with the whiteness of death. The Christmas candles looked at her flickeringly; the little white candles of purity, the little red candles of love.
She stood leaning for a space against the panels with her hands stretched out gropingly against the woodwork. Her lips moved vacantly, then her knees gave way and she crumpled down and lay insensible on the floor. After awhile her lashes trembled and rose flickeringly upon the vague perplexity of returning consciousness.
He departed for Sarum, and stayed away until March was in. He returned with certain information, absorbed by Senhouse with far- sighted patient eyes and in silence. The only indication he afforded was inscrutable. His cheek-bones twitched flickeringly, like summer lightning about the hills. Sanchia, Glyde said, was well and in London.
From the end of the first fortnight in life, when it appears for the first time, and as it were flickeringly, the child's smile begins to grow definite and, gradually, more frequent. By very slow degrees the secrecy passes away, and the dryness becomes more genial. The child now smiles more openly, but he is still very unlike the laughing creature of so much prose and verse.
She was silent for a moment, staring into the heart of the fire where the red and blue flames played flickeringly over the logs. "I've been taking a look into the past," she said, at last, "It's it's rather a dreary occupation." "I know," he said quietly. "I know."
The lamps burned flickeringly; for this I knew by the tremulousness of the monotonous strains. But, suddenly these strains diminished in distinctness and in volume. Finally they ceased. The perfume in my nostrils died away. Forms affected my vision no longer. The oppression of the Darkness uplifted itself from my bosom.
The cool shadows and thin lights touched it flickeringly as it went, and never a grass-top stirred to mark its sinister approach. Without a sound of warning it came straight up to the stone, and darted its narrow, cruel head into the hole. There was a sharp squeak, and instantly the narrow head came out again, ejected by the force of the mouse's agonized spring.
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