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Updated: May 17, 2025
Now comes a singular thing: the oddest thing, the strangest thing, the most baffling and unaccountable marvel that Australasia can show. At the frontier between New South Wales and Victoria our multitude of passengers were routed out of their snug beds by lantern-light in the morning in the biting-cold of a high altitude to change cars on a road that has no break in it from Sydney to Melbourne!
She could not have picked out among her city acquaintances a man who would have done the honors of the desert more delightfully than he. She had thought him handsome in the starlight and in the lantern-light the night before, but now that the morning shone upon him she could not keep from looking at him.
Nobody else attended to him, for Evans, the Mogul's engineer, a little cut about the head, but very angry, was exhibiting, by lantern-light, the mangled corpse of a slim blue pig. "T were n't even a decent-sized hog," he said. "'T were a shote." "Dangerousest beasts they are," said one of the crew. "Get under the pilot an' sort o' twiddle ye off the track, don't they?"
The next instant the boys saw a flash of lantern-light a few rods below the raft, heard a smothered yelp, the sounds of a confused struggle, and a moment later a loud splash in the water. Then all was again buried in darkness and silence. "Something has happened to Bim!" exclaimed Winn, in a low but excited tone, "and I am going to find out what it is."
After that day Gabriel Druse always set a light in his window which burned all night, answering to the lantern-light at the door of Tekewani's home the lights of exile and of an alliance which had behind it the secret influences of past ages and vanished peoples. There came a night, however, when the light at the door of Tekewani's tepee did not burn.
Quite common is it for men to travel in armed bands from the province of Kwei-chow, traveling by night over the mountains by lantern-light, and hiding by day from any possible official searchers.
"I'll go down and shut your turkeys up for the night, Sister," Hiram said, after he had done the other chores for he knew the girl would be afraid to go so far from the house by lantern-light. And when he reached the turkey coop, 'way down in the field, Hiram was very glad indeed that he had come instead of the girl. For the coop was empty. There wasn't a turkey inside, or thereabout.
So countless were the associations between them, so much knowledge, after all, did they have of each other, that even now, if they hated and contended, it must be, as it were, a contention within an orb. To each hemisphere, repelling the other, must yet come in lightning flashes the face of the whole. Glenfernie, under the lantern-light, looked like the old laird his father.
A little later as he crashed hurriedly through the underbrush, Diane called to him. She was holding a lantern high above something on the ground, her face quite colorless. "I'm glad you're here!" she said. "It's the aviator, Johnny. He's hurt " The aviator stirred. "He's comin' 'round," said Johnny peering down into the white face in the aureole of lantern-light.
The vast roots, far-reaching in every direction, look in the lantern-light like a writhing and crawling of dragons. The avenue is certainly not less than a quarter of a mile in length; it crosses two bridges and passes between two sacred groves. All the broad lands on either side of it belong to the temple.
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