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The village was within sight, it is true; but it might be a village of the dead for what I knew; no sound issued from it, no smoke was rising from its roofs, neither man nor beast was visible, no life, no motion it looked as desolate as the castle itself.
There were the little coasters, bound to and from the various towns along the south shore, down in the bight of the bay, and to the eastward; here and there a square-rigged vessel standing out to seaward; and, far in the distance, beyond Cape Ann, was the smoke of a steamer, stretching along in a narrow, black cloud upon the water. Every sight was full of beauty and interest.
Straight as knife cuts hung the broken strings of the unused nets, threaded here and there with wheels of silken cobwebs. Up through these Tessibel stared. Up and up, above the curling of the chimney smoke, up among the stars, up where the hands of love God's hands, were ever spread in benediction over her own wild, beautiful world. She smiled as if responding to a smile.
There was something awful in the appearance of the motley crowd that, like a torrent, foamed and surged through the streets. Some were bearing large pine torches that filled the air with thick smoke and partially lighted up the surrounding gloom. Most of them were armed with clubs, and a few with guns and pistols.
Then, amid a cloud of blue tobacco smoke, he went on: "I knew only one way to win you it was to humiliate you, to place you in a position where you would have to come to me on your knees." She half rose from her chair. "I would never do that," she cried. "I would rather die!" "Oh, yes, you will," he continued, calmly, making a gesture to her to remain seated.
Next morning, we drove around town in the rain. The city seemed but little changed. It WAS greatly changed, but it did not seem so; because in St. Louis, as in London and Pittsburgh, you can't persuade a new thing to look new; the coal smoke turns it into an antiquity the moment you take your hand off it.
Two policemen patrolled up and down. Bennington had had some difficulty in securing even these. The men waited for the first sign of smoke from the chimneys, but none came. No one was lighting the furnaces; there was nothing but silence inside the shops. There was no possible excuse as yet for deeds of violence, though many of the more turbulent element urged riot at once.
We had to take his word for it, for the smoke obscured everything so that we did not know whether we were going to drop three feet or thirty. The air coming in the window blew the smoke away from our faces for a moment and we got a breath, or otherwise I am afraid we would have strangled on the verge of being rescued.
'I went for a stroll round the grounds. I thought you would not like my cigar, that was all. 'Did Harold give you a cigar? 'No, I have not seen him. 'Let's go into the smoking-room and get one. 'No, thank you, I really don't care to smoke. I'd sooner talk to you. 'But you can do both. Alfred did not reply, and they walked down the pathway in silence. 'Good Heavens! he thought, 'that cigar!
"'But, she said with a little movement of invitation, 'one sees so few compatriots here if you have the time to come in and smoke a cigarette ... also the cigarette, she added, with another rippling laugh, 'for we have few callers, and live alone
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