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He wore his Sunday clothes, very thick and hot for the weather, an unstarched white shirt, and a blue necktie with big white dots, like a little boy’s, tied in a flowing bow. Cuzak began at once to talk about his holiday—from politeness he spoke in English. “Mama, I wish you had see the lady dance on the slack-wire in the street at night.
A huge block of ice was fixed upon as that which would suit their purpose, but it stood like a peninsula in the very midst of a crevasse, and connected with the main body of ice by a neck which looked as sharp as a knife on its upper edge, so that none but tight-rope or slack-wire dancers could have proceeded along it; and even such performers would have found the edge too brittle to sustain them.
He wore his Sunday clothes, very thick and hot for the weather, an unstarched white shirt, and a blue necktie with big white dots, like a little boy's, tied in a flowing bow. Cuzak began at once to talk about his holiday from politeness he spoke in English. 'Mama, I wish you had see the lady dance on the slack-wire in the street at night.
Zelie, the 'chevalier's' only daughter, a slack-wire artist; the other, Signor Scarmelli, a trapeze performer, who is the lady's fiancé." "Ah, then our friend the chevalier is not so young as the picture on the bill would have us believe he is." "No, he is not.
"You're only trying to bull through a political slack-wire exhibition for your own amusement and this whole State on the hair-trigger! By the mighty, it isn't right. I won't stand for it!" The Duke started for the front of the mansion.
If John Harkless had been in health, uninjured and prosperous, Tom Meredith could no more have thrown himself on his knees beside him and called him "old friend" than he could have danced on the slack-wire. One day they thought the patient sleeping; the nurse fanned him softly, and Meredith had stolen in and was sitting by the cot.
Zelie, the 'chevalier's' only daughter, a slack-wire artist; the other, Signor Scarmelli, a trapeze performer, who is the lady's fiance." "Ah, then our friend the chevalier is not so young as the picture on the bill would have us believe he is." "No, he is not.
With the natural instinct of self-preservation strong upon him, Lawrence darted across the narrow ridge to the firm ice in rear, dispensing entirely with that extreme caution which had marked his first passage over it. Indeed the tight-rope and slack-wire dancers formerly referred to could not have performed the feat with greater lightness, rapidity, and precision.
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