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And as he neared the surface he twisted to glance upward. It was light there a light brighter than the stars, but softer, evanescent. Mullet and squib were darting about or clinging to a feathery forest that hung straight down upon him. Far and near there came little darts of pale fire, gleaming and expiring with each stir in the phosphorescent water.
The city, that night, duly enjoyed its 'holy rumpus. But on Monday morning shops were open again; everything as normal as you please; and the cheerful prophets congratulated themselves that the explosion had proved a damp squib after all.
'Hantex vous les grands de la terre'? What are the connections of the evening? All this, and a great deal more of this kind, let me know in your next. The House of Commons is still very unanimous. There was a little popular squib let off this week, in a motion of Sir John Glynne's, seconded by Sir John Philips, for annual parliaments.
Upon the meeting of the House, and before its organization for business, one morning, the writer, at his desk, was approached by Alexander Barrow, a member and who afterward died a member of the United States Senate who read to me a squib which Marigny was reading, at the same moment, to a group about him.
However this might be, the popular party enjoyed the whole thing immensely, laughed over it heartily, and expressed in strong terms their admiration of the skill and daring displayed by the operators. The following squib, which appeared in the Nation at the time, over the initials "T.D.S.," affords an indication of the feelings excited among Irish nationalists by those extraordinary occurrences:
She lived scantily at home, never expecting any luxury or great pleasure to come into her own life. But two years ago a queer thing had happened to her. In an idle hour she wrote a comical squib and sent it to a New York paper. As everybody knows, fun, even vulgar fun, sells high in the market. Her fun was not vulgar, but coarse and biting enough to tickle the ears of the common reader.
'I referred her to Lucy Grafton. Do you know, St. James, I have half a strange idea that there is a renewal in that quarter? 'So they say, said the Duke; 'if so, I confess I am surprised. But they remembered Lord Darrell, and the conversation turned. 'Those are clever horses of Lincoln Graves, said Mr. Annesley. 'Neat cattle, as Bagshot says, observed Lord Squib.
Quentin's composure was shaken but once in the fortnight of pleasure preceding Dorothy's departure for Paris. That was when she indignantly, almost tearfully, called his attention to the squib in a London society journal which rather daringly prophesied a "break in the Ravorelli-Garrison match," and referred plainly to the renewal of an "across-the-Atlantic affection."
"But, after all, one lives on mutton; and, as the sublime Beranger says, 'Poor sheep! you were made to be shorn," and he hummed the political squib by way of giving vent to his feelings. Then he rang for the office-boy. "Call my carriage," he said. "Rue de Hanovre," he told the coachman.
This was done after each half-spoonful of the mixture was poured in. Then he inserted a strip of his touch-paper. "I will take this in my hand," he said, "there is no fear of its exploding. I want to throw it into the air and see how it burns there." The touch-paper was lit, and when the mixture started burning Bertie waved the squib high above his head and threw it into the air.
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