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Updated: May 15, 2025
On one side of the smoke-grimed apartment was a shabby leather couch, on the other side a long nest of drawers, while beside the fireplace was an expanding gas-bracket placed in such a position that it could be used to examine anyone seated in the big arm-chair. Pervading the dingy apartment was a faint smell of carbolic, for it was a consulting-room, and the man so intent upon the letter was Dr.
It is ridiculous of me to attach so much importance to a mere likeness." They stood upon the doorstep, but she checked him as he reached out for the bell. "You have seen quite a good deal of him," she said. "Tell me what you think of Lord Arranmore." His hand fell to his side. He stood under the gas-bracket, and she could see his face distinctly.
From his first day at Eckleton he had been taught the simple creed of the Blackburnite, that Eckleton was the finest school in the three kingdoms, and that Blackburn's was the finest house in the finest school. Under the gas-bracket by the door hung the first photograph in which he appeared, the cricket team of four years ago.
With merely an ironing-board and a few dozen meat-skewers, he would provided the ironing-board was not missed in time turn out quite a practicable rabbit-hutch. He could make a gun out of an umbrella and a gas-bracket, which, if not so accurate as a Martini-Henry, was, at all events, more deadly.
She moved about, adjusting a shade, setting a gas-bracket at some self-imposed angle of correctness, giving the sheets of the opened bed a touch of adjustment. It was the price paid for the free exercise of individuality. Already, at twenty-six, ways were becoming habits. These things arranged, she passed to the adjoining room, from to-night given to Alexina.
Then he pushed the gas-bracket so that the light came through the large crystal sphere, and made the Mayoress blink. "Now," he said soothingly, "kindly open your mouth wide." Like all women of strong and generous character, Mrs Simeon Clowes had a large mouth.
In von Graefe's Archiv there is a record of a man of seventy-five who suffered complete avulsion of the eye by a cart-wheel passing over his head. Verhaeghe records complete avulsion of the eye caused by a man falling against the ring of a sharp-worn key. Hamill describes the case of a young girl whose conjunctiva was pierced by one of the rests of an ordinary gas-bracket.
Israels was still there, very white and shaky, as the superintendent struck a match. "Where's that girl?" said the detective curtly. "The one who gave the alarm." "My daughter? She thought you were burglars. She didn't know." "Where is she?" Without waiting for a reply he entered the room whence she had emerged and, striking another match, applied it to a gas-bracket.
There was no reply; no sound of breathing, even. Ha! here was a box of matches at last! He struck a light in feverish haste, and lit the nearest gas-bracket. For an instant he could see nothing, in the sudden glare; but the next moment he fell back against the wall with a cry of horror and despair.
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