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We pick our steps, by lanthorn light indeed, and slowly, but still surely and safely, along a dark and difficult road: but just as we are beginning to pride ourselves on having found our way so cleverly, we come to an edge of darkness; and see before our feet a bottomless abyss, down which our feeble lanthorn will not throw its light a yard. Such is true science.
"Couldn't get a boat down here, could we!" "No; but we might get one of the big tubs," replied Scarlett. "It would hold us both. Shall we go back now?" "Yes; we're so horribly wet; but hold the lanthorn up higher, and Oh, I say!"
Hooke and I walked to Redriffe; and noble discourse all day long did please me, and it being late did take them to my house to drink, and did give them some sweetmeats, and thence sent them with a lanthorn home, two worthy persons as are in England, I think, or the world. So to my Lady Batten, where my wife is tonight, and so after some merry talk home and to bed. 2nd.
"We bore no lights, Adam." "None the less someone aboard this ship signalled yon black craft by means of a lanthorn, 'tis beyond doubt!" "And why should she follow us, think ye?" "Why am I a marked man, shipmate, why have I been dogged hither and yon across seas? Come into the coach and I'll tell ye a thing.
But he had no sooner entered the next bend of that obscure and winding avenue than the most lamentable, lusty cries assailed him. Again he stood still, blinded by his own light. Somewhere at hand a citizen was being beaten, for vague, quick-moving forms emerged into the radiance of his lanthorn out of the deep violet of the night air.
At once I gave chase. I ran after him and then, Sir, he came for a second within the circle of light projected by a street lanthorn. But in that one second I had seen that which turned my frozen blood into liquid lava a tail, Sir! a dog's tail, fluffy and curly, projecting from beneath that recreant's left arm. A dog, Sir! a dog! Carissimo! the darling of Mme. la Comtesse de Nolé's heart!
"Will ye sleep, man, will ye sleep and I in torment. Wake wake and tell me, must we die soon? Wake, I say!" At this he raised himself to blink at me in the beam of the lanthorn. "Must we die soon, think ye?" I demanded fiercely. "In God's time, Martin!" said he. "Think ye they will torture me first?"
If you saw the rat, why did you then not aid this unhappy citizen who was bitten by it first, to avoid that rodent, and subsequently to slay it, thereby relieving the public of a pestilential danger?" Cethru looked at him, and for some seconds did not reply; then he said slowly: "I were just passin' with my lanthorn."
So Aslan said to him, "O Captain, give me this lanthorn;" but he replied, "I cannot give it to thee." Asked Aslan, "Why not?"; and Ahmad answered, "Because lives have been lost for it." "Whose life?" enquired Aslan; and Ahmad rejoined, "There came hither a man who was made Chief of the Sixty; he was named Ala al-Din Abu al-Shamat and he lost his life through this lanthorn."
Upon leaving the fair, we turned into dark streets, dimly illumined by the light of the lanthorn we carried; occasionally, but very seldom, we met some grave personage, preceded also by a lanthorn, who looked with great astonishment at our party as we passed.
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