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But my eyes fell on a beam of light coming from a tiny window niched deep down in a recess of the building. And even as I saw this, there came to my ears a faint, regular sound a muffled 'tap, tap, tap. Instantly every fibre of my being was in a quiver.
It is called Radcot Bridge; probably built in the thirteenth century, with its three arches and a heavy buttress in the middle niched for a figure of the Virgin, and a cross formerly stood in the centre.
By this time his eyes were accustomed to the darkness, and he made out something white niched into the corner opposite. As he advanced towards it, it started away, and would have brushed past him, but he seized it. "Madam!" he whispered. "Do not scream. It is I, Godfrey Landless." In the darkness he felt the rigor of terror leave the form which he held.
Meanwhile a season of rain had begun; heavy skies warned me that I must not hope for a renewal of sunny idleness on this mountain top; it would be well if intervals of cheerful weather lighted my further course by the Ionian Sea. Reluctantly, I made ready to depart. In meditating my southern ramble I had lingered on the thought that I should see Squillace. He had niched himself in my imagination.
It communicated with another chamber, which became my own sparing the difficulties that stairs always presented; and beyond lay, niched under the grand staircase, a tiny light closet, a passage-room, where my mother put a bed for a man-servant, not liking to leave me entirely alone on the ground floor.
This put another round of the ladder beneath him; he was progressing well, but as yet he had learned nothing about his competitors. The next morning he had some more dictation for Peebleby's stenographer, and niched another sovereign from his sad little bank-roll.
Over the red wall limestone, with its amphitheaters, chambers, niches, and royal arches a climb of 1,600 feet is the banded sandstone, the entablature over the niched and columned marble, an adamantine molding 800 feet in thickness, stretching along the walls of the canyon through hundreds of miles. This banded sandstone has massive strata separated by friable shales.
Bulwer for it is perhaps here not impolite or improper still to call the first Lord Lytton by the name under which he wrote for forty years, and solidly niched himself in the novel-front of the minster of English Literature had not a few points of resemblance to his rival and future chief. But their relations to politics and letters were reversed.
The whole room came once more calmly, healthfully into sight. The two doors were still closed, the door communicating with the servant's room still locked. In the corner of the wall, into which he had so convulsively niched himself, lay the dog. I called to him, no movement; I approached, the animal was dead: his eyes protruded; his tongue out of his mouth; the froth gathered round his jaws.
It is a flat oblong space, with a two-storied farm building part of it showing brickwork of the early Empire standing upon it. To north and east runs the niched wall in which, deep under accumulations of soil, Lord Savile found the great Tiberius, and those lost portrait busts which had been waiting there through the centuries till the pick and spade of an Englishman should release them.
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