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"This is pretty serious, Jimmie," he asserted, after he had re-lighted his cigar. "It isn't the mere fact that you have recklessly chucked a small fortune at the Geddis person that is a mere matter of dollars and cents, and the Little Clean-Up will square you up on that. But there is another side to it. The dreadful thing is the fact that she had enough of a grip on you to make you do it.
With the distrust of guilt, each was suspicious of his neighbour; each dreaded the treachery of another. Then all were folded up again, looking exactly alike. They were shuffled together in a hat. The gas was extinguished; each drew out a paper. The gas was re-lighted.
At two o'clock in the morning they found themselves descending over the Adriatic, at which time a lantern which they carried expired and was with difficulty re-lighted. Continuing to descend, they presently pitched in to the sea and became drenched with salt water.
About the same time on the other side of the lagoon Jorgenson, raising his eyes, noted the stars and said to himself that the night would not last long now. He wished for daylight. He hoped that Lingard had already done something. The blaze in Tengga's compound had been re-lighted. Tom's power was unbounded, practically unbounded. And he was invulnerable.
"But if you were on your oath, Mr. Twentyman? "Was there more than seven-and-sixpence an acre lost?" "No, nor five shillings," said Runciman. "I think Goarly ought to take his lordship's offer if you mean that," said Twentyman. Then there was a pause, during which more drink was brought in, and pipes were re-lighted. Everybody wished that Mr.
Marriage act and poor act have, as you believe, extinguished the holy light of Hymen's torch, and re-lighted it with Lucifer matches in Register offices; and out it soon goes, leaving worse than Egyptian darkness in the dwellings of the poor the smell of its brimstone indicative of its origin, and ominous of its ending.
So now, is your heart ready to receive the flood of my sorrows?" Young Auberly said the latter part of this in a half-jesting tone, but he was evidently in earnest, so his friend replied by squeezing his hand warmly, and saying, "Let's hear about it, Fred," while he re-lighted his pipe. "You have but a poor lodging here, John," said Auberly, looking round the room.
Let us talk of Anne. I will tell you her history." She re-lighted her cigarette, which had gone out, and continued, "Her father was a gambler and a wanderer. He lived mostly on the Continent Monte Carlo for choice. Anne's mother" here the Princess paused, and then went on with an obvious effort "I know nothing of Anne's mother, Mr. Ware. She died when Anne was a child. Mr.
The bright syrup was now again poured into the boiler, the fire re-lighted, and the syrup was kept boiling, to evaporate the water and condense the syrup down to the point at which it would crystallize. It required many hours' boiling to effect this, any scum which rose to the surface being carefully taken off with a skimmer.
"He may yet learn," replied the other, "that soldiers wear weapons for one purpose as well as another. Hark! what noise was that?" "It was but some rat at work within this old arch, Come, let us to bed." 'They moved away, and we, breathing again, passed along, and soon re-lighted our torches.
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