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Charley stared at his retreating back, fighting to stay calm. That was the way marks were, of course, and there wasn't anything to be done about it. It was always "the way you have to be," and "the things you have to do." It never seemed to enter their heads that pity was unnecessary baggage where a born freak was concerned, any more than it had entered Professor Lightning's head.
When clouds athwart the lowering sky Are driven when bursts with hollow moan The thunder's peal our trembling bosoms own The might of awful destiny! Yet oft the lightning's glare Darts sudden through the cloudless air: Then in thy short delusive day Of bliss, oh! dread the treacherous snare; Nor prize the fleeting goods in vain, The flowers that bloom but to decay!
The countenance of Redwald indicated some little emotion, though it was transient as the lightning's flash in the summer night. "The king is it well with him?" "He has fled with a small troop to the south." "Saw you aught of Elfric of Aescendune?" "He fell in the last charge of the cavalry." "Dead?" "We think so." "How is it that you have suffered yourselves to be beaten?"
Seeing this, the king said, 'The flowers pass away and die; so is it with mankind: we are born, we grow old, we sicken and die; we are as fleeting as the lightning's flash, as evanescent as the morning dew. I know not whether any of you here present ever fix your thoughts upon death; yet it is a rare thing for a man to live for a hundred years.
One of those sad, unexpected affairs, that remind the living that even in life we are in the midst of death, happened at Shelbyville. Our regiment had been out to the front, on duty, and was returning to camp. It was nearly dark, and we saw a black wind cloud rising. The lightning's flash and the deep muttering thunders warned us to seek shelter as speedily as possible.
Undazzled by the lightning's frequent flare, unstaggered by the down-rushing wind, as if the mountain thunders were only the roll of an organ about his ears, Herb Heal sprang onward and upward, tugging his comrades one by one up many a precipitous ledge, and pulling them to their feet again when the tripping bushes brought their noses to the ground and their heels into the air.
The forehead an' face an' nose an' ears wuz Tarpaulin's, an' nobody else's." "Lightning's blazes!" roared the colonel, "Ha, ha, ha! why, Tarpaulin hisself came into my shanty, an' looked at the pictur', an' talked to them 'bout it! Trot out yer glassware, barkeeper got to drink to a feller that's ez cool ez all that!"
Friend of the tarantula, darkness, the odd number, the Devil, prowling, runs about. My clock strikes midnight. If I should go to see Lucifer? Hell's a-burning, burning, burning; the Devil, prowling, runs about. Cackling in his impish play, Here and there the Devil's turning, Forward here and back again, Zig-zag as the lightning's ray, While the fires burn amain.
Two such spirits, so alike in taste and yet so opposite in temperament and complexion, could scarcely fail to be mutually attractive; for he was dark and she fair; his temper was as the forked lightning's flash, quick and sometimes destructive, while she was ever calm, gentle, and self-possessed.
Hartmut breathed hard; keen and cruel like a lightning's flash, came a memory to his soul, the memory of that hour in which he had freely given his word and broken it. Adelheid von Wallmoden looked straight at Hartmut now; her face was pale, and her voice trembled as she addressed him again: "I wish you to cease this persecution, which has been going on for weeks now.
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