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Updated: June 10, 2025
As if life were not sad enough, good heavens! And then, after all, Sidonie had always been a good girl; why should she not be a good woman? Night was falling. M. Chebe rose gravely to close the shutters of the shop and light a gas-jet which illumined the bare walls, the empty, polished shelves, and the whole extraordinary place, which reminded one strongly of the day following a failure.
From time to time she sat back on her heels to ease the strain of her position, and with one smoking hand, white and parboiled with the hot water, brushed her hair, already streaked with gray, out of her weazened, pale face and the corners of her mouth. It was very quiet. A gas-jet without a globe lit up the place with a crude, raw light.
Jack, however, had no eye for these details; his attention was centred in a group of boys who were struggling under the single gas-jet, which was flaring away in a manner which showed it had evidently been turned up in a hurry. "Here, leave that chap alone!" he exclaimed, plunging into the centre of the scrimmage. "Let him alone, I say!" "Hallo! it's Fenleigh J.," cried Garston.
"What was it?" asked Barkhouse, as we stopped on the upper landing and gazed into the obscurity. "I thought I heard a noise," said I. "Who's there?" "It was a rat," said Porter. "I've heard 'em out here of nights." "Well, just light that other gas-jet," I said. "It will help to make things pleasant in case of accidents."
She went along the narrow walk to the rear, avoided the missing step without thinking about it, and entered the kitchen, where a solitary gas-jet flickered. She turned it up to the best of its flame. It was a small room, not disorderly, because of lack of furnishings to disorder it.
There was a strange medicinal odor as of cubeb cigarettes in the air. After a little pause, he tiptoed noiselessly up the side aisle toward the end of the church toward the light above the gallery. This radiance from a single gas-jet expanded as he advanced, and spread itself upward over a burnished row of monster metal pipes, which went towering into the darkness like giants.
Ah! what scenes shift and shuffle in the twinkle of the gas-jet in this opalescent liquid; the hot shimmer of the arena at the Seville bull-fight, with its swirl of color and movement; the torchlight procession of pilgrims round the church at Lourdes, with the one black nun praying by herself in a shadowy corner; the lovely valley of the Tauba, where the tinkle of the sheep-bells mingles with the Lutheran hymn blown to the four winds from the old church tower; wines that were red sunshine that was warm mandolines !" His voice died away as in exquisite reverie.
The old lady was in a comfortable state of dishabille; the little girls each wore big checked gingham aprons like Julia's, and buttoned down the back with the same big, white bone buttons. One of them was waving Mrs. Pitbladder's hair with a crimping-iron which she heated in a gas-jet before the bureau; the other child was laboriously working at one of the pudgy hands with a pair of nail-scissors.
In the servants' quarters at the top several lights burned, while on the drawing-room floor a gas-jet shot forth its beams into Sleepy Hollow. If Mr. Brimbecomb were at home, then he must be in that room. Fledra crouched under the window. "Mr. Brimbecomb! Mr. Brimbecomb!" she called. Silence, as dense as that in God's Acre near her, reigned in the house. She called again, a little louder.
Silver-soldering requires the use of a powerful blow lamp or gas-jet; ordinary soft soldering bits and temperatures are ineffective. Brazing is better still, but should be done by an expert, who may be relied on not to burn the metal. Getting the prepared parts of a boiler silver-soldered or brazed together is inexpensive, and is worth the money asked. Some Points in Design.
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