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Drink and vindictiveness gave him more than the courage he needed, and, with a roar of anger, he dashed the glass he was carrying and its contents into Payton's face. The Englishman dropped where he was, and James stood over him, swearing, while the grease guttered from the tilted candle in his right hand.
The candle guttered and flickered on the floor midway between the two bunks, and Bard, glancing to it, was about to move from his bed and snuff it; but at the thought of so doing it seemed to him as if he could almost sense with prophetic mind the upward dart of the noose about his shoulders. He edged a little lower in the blankets. "Not a bit. How about you?" "Me?
Here, upon a deal table, was set forth my repast; the foods I had brought with me, and a red Arab soup served in a gigantic bowl of palmwood. A candle guttered in the glass neck of a bottle, and upon the floor were already spread my gaudy striped quilt, my pillow, and my blanket. The Spahi surveyed these preparations with a deliberate greediness, lingering in the narrow doorway.
It flickered and flared, and it guttered down, and went out and no man heeded it: it was only a rushlight. "'And there was a light once; men set it on high within a lighthouse, that it might yield light to all souls at sea; that afar off they might see its steady light and find harbour, and escape the rocks. "'And that light flickered and flared, as it listed.
The door was pushed open, letting in a rush of cool, sweet air which guttered the candles set in old bottles, and drove the heavy fog of tobacco smoke toward the blackened ceiling. A voice boomed forth: "Come on, now, gentlemen. Two ladies have come with posies in tall silver vases and a white altar cloth for this table.
Just one of those pictures he had seen sometimes in the candle light, when it guttered in the draught, as the big crump burst outside. . . . "Derek, that wasn't fair." With an effort he pulled himself together and regarded her gravely. Then he scrambled down the sandy bank to her side. "Do you mind pinching me?" he remarked, holding out his hand.
They had been old and gnarled of trunk, when the man whose life had just guttered out inside had come, young and militant, to preach the letter of that law, whose spirit was to his understanding a fourth dimension. Through the long windows of colored but artless glass, now partly raised, poured slanting panels of summer sun, mottling the interior and its occupants with dashes of red and blue.
Guy carried a candle which he had procured from the kitchen, and which guttered and smoked in the draught. "Do be careful with that light," said Ida. "You'll burn the place down if you don't mind what you're about." "Oh, all right!" answered Guy, preparing to drag the chest out into the middle of the floor. "I don't think it's much heavier than usual. I do wonder what's inside."
And much more of unreal speculation, but nothing which bore upon it the stamp of truth. So these two and I am one of the two went down to Epping Forest to see that it was still there, and how it fared in the dismal weather. The sky was a greasy grey that guttered down to the horizon, and the wind smote damp and chill.
And after a swimming interval they heard him moving. "Cuckoo!" he called; a level flame stabbed the dark; something fell, thudding through the staccato uproar of the explosion. At the same moment the outer door opened on the crack and Carfax’s orderly peeped in. Carfax struck a match with shaky fingers; the candle guttered, sank, flared on Flint, who was laughing without a sound.
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