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Under the latter head would fall what may be termed political criticism. The basis of this style of writing is a caput mortuum of impotent spite and dulness, till it is varnished over with the slime of servility, and thrown into a state of unnatural activity by the venom of the most rancorous bigotry.
His Excellency the COMTE DE MONTE CRISTO. K.G., K.C.B., Knight of the Black Eagle. Directors. CHEVY SLIME, Esq., Berkeley Square. MONTAGUE TIGG, Esq., Park Lane. Secretary. DAVID CRIMP, Esq. Archaeological Adviser. Dr. SPIEGELMANN, Berlin. Then the prospectus! Treasure-hunting too long left to individual and uneducated enterprise. Need of organised and instructed effort.
Being short-sighted, he wore glasses that seemed to magnify his eyes, which were always a little bloodshot. In hot weather a sort of thin slime covered his cheeks, for he perspired easily. His head was almost entirely bald, and over his turn-down collar his great neck folded in two distinct reddish collops of flesh. His hands were big and his fingers almost massive in thickness.
Mosquitoes bit savagely; and the heat became thicker; and there was yet no wind. Sparicio and his hired boy Carmelo had been walking backward and forward for hours overhead, urging the vessel yard by yard, with long poles, through the slime of canals and bayous. With every heavy push, the weary boy would sigh out, "Santo Antonio! Santo Antonio!"
As a change it was pleasant to step from deep slippery mud and slime on to stones placed with their acutest angles upwards, but a final encounter with these landed me literally at Mr. Browne's homestead. It has been my lot at various times to witness the institution known as "home" in a state of denudation, as my scientific friends would call it.
I may say that the floor of the canteen was of concrete, but upon this was a layer of mud, slime, grease, and other filth brought in from outside upon the boots of those who frequented the establishment. This was now a noisome muddy carpet some two inches in thickness.
I should have thought that the use of a vacuum for removing dust was a mark of civilization rather than of savagery. It was well said of your people in the olden days, 'Dust thou art; and to dust thou shalt return. What does it matter what my body is made of? the dust of the ground, the particles of the air, or even the slime of the ditch?
The earth suspended in the lower course of fluviatile currents is lighter than sea-sand, river water lighter than sea water, and hence, if a land stream enters the sea with a considerable volume, its water flows over that of the sea, and bears its slime with it until it lets it fall far from shore, or, as is more frequently the case, mingles with some marine current and transports its sediment to a remote point of deposit.
The face was disfigured beyond all semblance of what it might have been in life. One cheek was bitten by wolves, one was imbedded in the frozen slime. Yet there was evidence on the poor forsaken remains that convinced the searchers that this was indeed the mortal part of the great duke.
Sometimes the water would deepen a little and relieve us; again it would shoal. Between the coral-branches we would sink at times to our necks in the slime and water, our limbs lacerated with the sharp projecting points. Fortunately, the wind helped us; keeping all sail on, thus for more than a hundred yards we toiled, until the water deepened and the reef was passed.
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