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Updated: May 1, 2025
She crept to the door and opened it, her practised hand recognizing the fastenings in the dark. The light from the street-lamp just outside fell on Bertie's white face. "What luck?" she asked in a whisper. "Curse the luck!" he answered: "everything went against me from first to last." "I told you so," she whispered, closing the door. "Didn't I say that?"
The girl paused an instant under a street-lamp she was only a girl fifteen or sixteen at most, though very tall, with a bright, fearless look then drawing her shawl closely round her, she flitted rapidly away. The innumerable city clocks tolled heavily eleven. The night was pitch-dark; the sheet-lightning blazed across the blackness, and now and then a big drop fell.
Farther on, an old-fashioned street-lamp marks the place where the alley turns to wind about until it eventually reaches another main street. This dark region, the feeble lamp above the stage door, the shadows opposite, have a peculiar charm, especially at night.
Sylvia pulled the silken scarf from her face, and even in the glimmer of the dull street-lamp under which the man had drawn her he could see the auburn hair and blue eyes. But he still kept his grasp on her arm. There were slaves who were not black, he knew, and "quality white" girls were not running about Charleston streets alone at night. "What is your name?" he demanded.
Toward the end of his first year he sent to Westover one night from a station-house, where he had been locked up for breaking a street-lamp in Boston. By his own showing he had not broken the lamp, or assisted, except through his presence, at the misdeed of the tipsy students who had done it.
For her eyes were fresh from the blaze, and here there was no street-lamp or lantern to form a kindly transition between the inner glare and the outer dark.
The foreboding passed abruptly, with a jerk of her breath, as the street-lamp revealed a tall and easy figure approaching from the north, swinging a stick in time to its stride. She had given Russell up and he came. "What luck for me!" he exclaimed. "To find you alone!" Alice gave him her hand for an instant, not otherwise moving. "I'm glad it happened so," she said.
Meanwhile the Slogger, left in the dark with the still fitfully struggling Dumps, employed his leisure in running over some of the salient events of his past career, and in trying to ascertain, by the very faint light that came from a distant street-lamp, what was the nature of his immediate surroundings. His nose told him that the cask at his elbow was beer.
The longest and most abstruse flight of a philosopher becomes clear and shallow, in the flash of a moment, when we suddenly perceive the aspect and drift of his intention. The longest argument is but a finger pointed; once we get our own finger rightly parallel, and we see what the man meant, whether it be a new star or an old street-lamp.
On leaving the railway station he threw himself into a cab, and said to the coachman, "Hôtel de Brabant." He heard a voice repeat, "Hôtel de Brabant." He put out his head and saw a man writing something in a notebook with a pencil by the light of a street-lamp. It was probably some police agent.
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