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The stars also were reversed in their order, making, in the depths of the imaginary abyss, a sprinkling of tiny phosphorescent lights. Then all Nagasaki became profusely illuminated, sparkling with multitudes of lanterns: the smallest suburb, the smallest village was lighted up; the tiniest hut perched up among the trees, which in the daytime was invisible, threw out its little glowworm glimmer.
To listen, knee pressed to knee, to the carriages rolling along the Rue de Babylone; To gaze upon the same planet in space, or at the same glowworm gleaming in the grass; To hold their peace together; a still greater delight than conversation; Etc., etc. In the meantime, divers complications were approaching.
The rowel of the spur had so wound itself among the gimp cords in those few moments, that separation was likely to be a matter of time. He too stooped, and the lantern standing on the ground betwixt them threw the gleam from its open side among the fir-tree needles and the blades of long damp grass with the effect of a large glowworm.
They never used the same glowworm twice, I observed; but let him go, apparently uninjured by the use they had made of him. In other parts, the whole of the immediately surrounding foliage was illuminated by the interwoven dances in the air of splendidly coloured fire-flies, which sped hither and thither, turned, twisted, crossed, and recrossed, entwining every complexity of intervolved motion.
And his adversary was not a little surprised, for from there to the cemetery was nearly a quarter of a league. “But how shall we see the ball?” continued the wheelwright. “True!” said Belzébuth. He touched the ball with his club, and it shone suddenly in the dark like an immense glowworm. “Fore!” cried Roger.
From these facts it would appear probable, that the animal has only the power of concealing or extinguishing the light for short intervals, and that at other times the display is involuntary. On the muddy and wet gravel-walks I found the larvae of this lampyris in great numbers: they resembled in general form the female of the English glowworm.
For as the great church is made up of numberless communities, so is the great shining orb of witness-bearers made up of millions of lesser orbs. All men and women of true heart bear individual testimony to the truth of God, saying, "I have trusted and found Him faithful." And the feeble light of the glowworm is yet light, pure, and good, and with a loveliness of its own.
Here were banks of earth and thicket, shadowy dells where the primrose grew, and the cuckoo-pint, and wood-sorrel, and perhaps in summer the glowworm breathed her mossy gleam under the blackberries. And here Parson Twemlow was astonished, though he had promised himself to be surprised no more, after all he had been through lately.
"Aren't you ashamed of yourself, to play an old man such a trick?" "I have played no trick," said Jenkins. "I thought I saw a glowworm, and I stopped to look; but I couldn't see it again. There's no trick in that." "Ugh!" cried the porter in his wrath. "You took and clutched the keys from me, and throwed 'em on the ground! Pick 'em up." "Well, I never heard the like!" said Jenkins.
Back that would come, fluttering to earth on the wing of a sable parachute, lit on the way, as it drifted down two hundred miles, or so, by the glowworm gleam of a tiny electric battery, a little dry cell attached to it!
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