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The lamp at the shaft was not burning, but he could see Walters beckoning at the gate. "He wants to get down before the motor stops," the latter said. Lawrence hurried along the passage, and when he reached the shaft Walters put his hand on the folding ironwork. "Come along; his light's out," he said to Lawrence, and added, as if to somebody in the lift: "Start her off! I'll shut the gate."
"Naturally. But has Christina never wondered why?" "If she had been near guessing, her mother's shabby treatment of him would have put her off the scent. Mrs. Light's conscience has apparently told her that she could expiate an hour's too great kindness by twenty years' contempt. So she kept her secret. But what is the profit of having a secret unless you can make some use of it?
"Which on 'em, sir?" said the gunner drily. "Why, that one! There's only one," cried Hilary sharply. "Look alive! and ah how provoking, the light's out!" "Ay, sir, they've dowsed their light now the boats know where to go, and it would be only waste o' good powder and round shot to go plumping 'em into that there bank o' blackness out yonder."
During the first part of the chase the closest I got to the light was 8 to 10 miles. At this time it appeared to be as large as an SNJ and had a greenish tail that looked to be five to six times as long as the light's diameter. This tail was seen several times in the next 10 minutes in periods of from 5 to 30 seconds each.
For some days past the weather had been occasionally so thick and foggy that no small difficulty was experienced in going even between the rock and the tender, though quite at hand. But the floating light's boat lost her way so far in returning on board that the first land she made, after rowing all night, was Fifeness, a distance of about fourteen miles.
If an Assassin is unattached and free to accept a client, his name's in white light. If he has a client, the light's changed to blue, and the name of the client goes up under his. If his whereabouts are unknown, the light's changed to amber. If he is discarnated, his name's removed entirely, unless the circumstances of his discarnation are such as to constitute an injury to the Society.
The man she 's engaged to does n't care a straw for her. Leave me alone and I 'll tell her what I think of you." As to Christina Light's marriage, Madame Grandoni could make no definite statement.
It was fortunate that a landing was not attempted this evening, for at eight o'clock the wind shifted to E.S.E., and at ten it had become a hard gale, when fifty fathoms of the floating light's hempen cable were veered out.
They was jest a singin' 'The Light of the World is Jesus, I shall never forgit, when I was down to camp-meetin' to Marthy's Vin'yard a good while ago there was a little blind boy stood up on a bench and sung it all alone; and it made me cry to see him standin' there with his poor little white face, and eyes that couldn't see a' one of all the faces lookin' up to him, a singin' that out as bold and free, and he did pronounce the words so beautiful so as everybody could hear I can hear him a singin' of it out, now 'The Light of the World is Jesus. And I suppose we git to thinkin' that the light's in our eyes, maybe, or the light's in the sun, or the light's in the lamp, maybe.
I explained, but added I had not seen any light on his vessel. "Well," said the man, looking upward, "that light's out, and ten to one it was out when we run inter ye. I'spect Abner didn't calkerlate for fillin' it for day work and night work too." The speaker was a grizzled man, middle-aged, and rather too plump for a sailor.
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