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The lamp's rays threw a strong light on his delicate hand, on the workmanlike pose of his head, which it surrounded with a nimbus, and on a painting a woman's head which he was copying. He looked superb like that, and I thought how doubly tempted Rembrandt would have been by the deep significance as well as by the chiaroscuro of this interior. I stamped my foot.
"Could one of the order have seen him, in the brass lamp's flickering light, making passes and warding off imaginary thrusts with his wooden sword, prancing and jumping back and forth in his narrow cell, clothed only in his under garments, and heard a hollow voice as from a tomb, calling out orders and directing his movements, he would have been convinced that the ancient cloisters were tenanted by ghosts or evil spirits.
The lamp's rays scarce illumin'd the far corners; but in one of these stood a great leathern screen, and over the fireplace near it a rack was hanging, full of swords, pistols, and walking canes. I then chose out a pistol or two, slipped them into my sash, and advanced to the centre table. Under the lamplight lay His Majesty's letter, open.
That's what I come to give ye," and he nodded to the crumpled bit of paper and its contents lying under the lamp's glow. "Is there anything I can do for you, Bob, down below? I saw Katie last time I drove in." A hungry eager look stole into the man's face; tears started in his eyes and lost themselves in his matted, unkempt beard. "Ye see Katie, Billy?" he moaned. "God how I'd like to!
'NOVEMBER 4TH. To-night I have dared to read again Browning's "Rabbi ben Ezra." For months I have not been able to read it, or think of it, though for days and weeks towards the end of her life it seemed to be graven on my heart. Look not thou down, but up! To uses of a cup, The festal board, lamp's flash, and trumpet's peal The new wine's foaming glow, The Master's lips a-glow!
He believes in throwing boots at fourth and fifth engineers when they wake him up at night with word that a bearing is redhot, all because a lamp's glare is reflected red from the twirling metal. He believes that there are only two poets in the world; one being Robert Burns, of course, and the other Gerald Massey.
"Good Lord!" he repeated quietly, and, linking his hands under his coat-tails, strode twice backwards and forwards across the room. Captain Coffin looked up from his charts and stared at him, and I, too, stared, waiting in the semi-darkness beyond the lamp's circle. "Good Lord!" said Captain Branscome for the third time. "And it's Saturday, too! You'll excuse me a moment."
"Yer daddy don't need ye as much as me an' the little feller. Let me take 'im I ain't seen 'im yet, ye know." Andy bent over the cot. Gently he lifted the infant and carried him nearer the lamp's dim rays. He stood gazing intently into the rosy face. Then, he raised a tiny hand and spread first one finger, then each baby fellow out in his own palm. "Why he's real handsome," he decided at last.
The only light in the dim room was afforded by the big lamp at the Squire's elbow. He spread the sheet on the table in the lamp's circle of radiance. "Boys, The Hornet is out and it looks as if it has a barb in its stinger," he stated, and then paused while he fixed his spectacles upon his nose. Vaniman, sitting close by, felt that a glance at a public sheet was not invading privacy.
What a good game it is; but how difficult it is to see the shuttle-cock in the half light as it crosses the lamp's rays A.1. practice for grouse driving, and a good middle-aged man's game; for reach and quick eye and hand come in, and the player doesn't require to be so nimble on his pins as at tennis.
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