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Now that I have found who is the lamp's maker " "Cease fooling," broke in Nehushta. "Bird of ill-omen, you have come to drag your prey back to the shame and ruin which she has escaped." "I was not always called thus," answered Caleb, flushing, "when I rescued you from the house at Tyre for instance, or when I risked my life, Miriam, to throw you food upon the gate Nicanor.
She held the lamp with one hand and gathered her apron on her lap with the other, while Betsey, exultant and hawk-eyed, took out handful after handful of heavy coins, letting them jingle and chink, letting them shine in the lamp's rays, letting them roll across the floor guineas, dollars, doubloons, old French and Spanish and English gold! Now, now! Look! The eye at the window!
And another answered: "Shall we kill him?" I strained to hear the answer, and could have sobbed with relief when Detchard's voice came grating and cold: "Wait a bit. There'll be trouble if we strike too soon." There was a moment's silence. Then I heard the bolt of the door cautiously drawn back. Instantly I put out the light I held, replacing the lamp in the bracket. "It's dark the lamp's out.
"How did you get that, lamb?" she said, touching Ken's forehead, illuminated by the lamp's glow. Ken blew out the flame swiftly, and faced his sister in a room lit only by the faint, dusky reflection of moonlight without. "Oh, I whacked up against something this afternoon," he said. "I'll put some witch-hazel on it, if you like."
What though, about thy rim, Scull things in order grim Grow out, in graver mood, obey the sterner stress? "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 flow, The Master's lips a-glow! Thou, heaven's consummate cup, what needst thou with earth's wheel?"
His face, in the lamp's full light, softened, but there was in it no hint of sensuousness to prepare one for this indulgence in luxurious bibliomania. There was a childlike simplicity in Bassett's delight. A man who enjoyed such playthings could not be hard, and Dan's heart warmed with liking.
He walked firmly to the window, pushed the curtains far back, and opened both sides of the casement. Outside the warm summer's night was giving place to the dawn of day. A cool morning breeze blew into the room, fluttering the curtains, and extinguishing the lamp's weak flame. It cooled the man's eyes and filled his lungs with fresh air. Güntz drew himself up.
Her blue-black hair, which had become loosened in her excitement, hung in a long plait over one shoulder and gleamed in the lamp's reflection.
He saw it clearly in imagination that bronze floor-lamp which Lydia Carr had given to Nita Leigh, its big round bowl studded with great jewels of colored glass. And in recalling every detail of the lamp he saw what he had dismissed as of no importance at the time, in the excitement of finding that the lamp's bulb had been shattered by the "bang or bump" which Flora Miles had described.
He saw the dull, old lamp rubbed for the first time, and the genie come. And he rejoiced with Aladdin as the poor Chinese boy attained the knowledge of the lamp's peculiar virtue. Only once did he emerge from the thralldom of the tale by his own will.
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