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He smiled, and turning, pointing to the nose of the prospector protruding from the ground at our backs. "But for that, David, I might believe that we were indeed come to the country beyond the Styx. The prospector renders that theory untenable it, certainly, could never have gone to heaven.
Marcus, whom you should call no ill name, and who was overwhelmed through no fault of his own, fighting like a hero, has vanished " "Across the Styx, I fear me. Indeed that would be best for him, since no Roman must be taken prisoner and live." "Nay, I think not, or at the least I hope he lives.
I think I have both him and the Medusa. And what does the will matter to me? Any one may have the gear, when I can't have it. But I'll not be dictated to this side of the Styx!" Faversham wandered out once more into the summer night. A little path along the cliff took him down to the riverside, and he paced beside the dimly shining water, overhung by the black shadow of the woods.
As the heathen deities contracted an indelible obligation if they swore by Styx, the Scottish Highlanders had usually some peculiar solemnity attached to an oath which they intended should be binding on them. Very frequently it consisted in laying their hand, as they swore, on their own drawn dirk; which dagger, becoming a party to the transaction, was invoked to punish any breach of faith.
Low lights were seen down the darkness. This was the world again. It was not the bliss of her heart, nor the peace of his. It was the superficial unreal world of fact. Yet not quite the old world. For the peace and the bliss in their hearts was enduring. Strange, and desolate above all things, like disembarking from the Styx into the desolated underworld, was this landing at night.
Two weeks is a very short time, but when you have been over the mountains and back, when you have hovered for days close to the banks of the Styx, when you have huddled for days close to the Shadrack stove, listening to the widow's stories of her John and Tip's praise of his wife, then a fortnight seems an age. But everything was as I had left it.
And this is the river which they call Pyriphlegethon, whose burning streams emit dissevered fragments in whatever part of the earth they happen to be. Opposite to this again the fourth river first falls into a place dreadful and savage, as it is said, having its whole color like cyanus: this they call Stygian, and the lake which the river forms by its discharge, Styx.
I sprung over the gutter as if it had been the fatal Styx, and I a ghost, which, eluding Pluto's authority, was making its escape from Limbo lake.
It's no use my talking, I know," added the doctor. "On the contrary," said Sir Austin, "I am quite of your persuasion. And the world he shall see now." "We have dipped him in Styx, you know, doctor," Adrian remarked. "But, doctor," said Lady Blandish, "have you known a case of this sort before." "Never, my lady," said the doctor, "they're not common in these parts.
"When I die," he exclaimed in a fine rapture, "should I go to heaven, I will fish in the water of life with a fly dressed with a feather from the wing of an angel; should I be unfortunately consigned to another destination, I shall nevertheless hope to angle in Styx with the worm that never dieth."
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