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Something flashed brightly, like silver reflecting moonlight; then came a spark of flame, which died immediately, and later Maurice caught an echo which resembled the bursting of a leaf against the lips. "Come; that looks like a pistol shot." Again the flash of silver, broader and clearer this time; and Maurice could now separate the shadow-shapes.
Starting back from this, he turned to look about him, and found himself surrounded by shadow-shapes of many that he had known of old: Madame Dravikine, Nicholas, Zaremba, and old Sósha: ay, even pallid Joseph, too, lurking behind a little group of brethren of the spirit: in life unknown; in death beloved.
Often enough, in those days, I found a fitness in the lines of Omar: We are no other than a moving show Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show. But "the Master of the Show," in this case, was Dr. Fu-Manchu! I have been asked many times since the days with which these records deal: Who WAS Dr. Fu-Manchu?
I am convinced that it is not a pose." "Yes," she said, "that's the queer thing. He's not putting it on and he makes everybody else seem stale and shallow like ghosts or shadow-shapes " I read Vanity Fair late into the night, and the morning was coming on before I tried to sleep. I waked to find Nancy standing by my bed. "His boat is gone." "Gone?" "Yes. It went an hour ago.
Jean shivered a little as she went downstairs. She found herself a little afraid of the lonely darkening house. She wished that Mary would come. Curled up in one of the big chairs, she waited. Half-asleep and half-awake; she was aware of shadow-shapes which came and went.
His words reminded me of what Goethe had said about himself: in each of the ten years he spent on his "Theory of Light" he could have written a couple of plays as good as his best. The land of Might-have-been is peopled with these gorgeous shadow-shapes. Oscar had already found his public, a public capable of appreciating the very best he could do.
"Pleasant ghosts in lace ruffles and velvet coats, smoking long pipes around a punch bowl; beautiful ghosts in patches and powder," he made an expressive gesture; "they have mingled with the rest of you shadow-shapes of youth and loveliness." "Well, if anybody can tell about it, Mother can," said Randy, "but I don't believe there were ever any prettier girls than are here to-night."
The writhing green shadow-shapes lost form, dimmed, and resolved themselves into an image a lean, lined face with rapier-blade eyes gazed upon her from the blackness the face of Tiger Elliston! Instantly, the full force and determination of her surged through the girl's veins anew. The drooping lips stiffened. Her heart sang with the joy of conquest.
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