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Updated: May 24, 2025
A rabble of dusky shapes headed by a torch-bearer who had doubtless lighted his fat-stick at the burning temple, pressed forward to force a way through the window. "Get off of the flower-bed," said Ludlow, dropping the muzzle of his gun on the sill. "You're tramping down my wife's flowers." "It's your nosegays of Mormons we're after having, Ludlow. We seen them shlipping in here!"
He shrank back aghast; for royalty shuddereth at the sight of Death as doth a beggar, and, in its presence, feeleth his power to be as the power of him who vainly commanded the waves of the sea to go back. Still the skeleton kept true measure before him still it extended to him its bony hand. He fell back, in horror, against a pillar where a torch-bearer stood.
Pierston bade her good-bye, kissing her hand; turned from her and the incipient being whom he was to meet again under very altered conditions, and left the bed-chamber with a tear in his eye. 'Here endeth that dream! said he. Hymen, in secret or overt guise, seemed to haunt Pierston just at this time with undignified mockery which savoured rather of Harlequin than of the torch-bearer.
"Art thou a kurios and knowest not this?" the torch-bearer asked quickly. "It hath been so in Syria and Phoenicia, yet I hoped in Rome to find this evil remedied." "Human nature is the same in Rome as in Syria. Yet there is always a way in a brotherhood to keep peace.
Glancing round, he saw the torch-bearer coming along at a trot, holding his flaming torch up in front of him as he trotted down the middle of the narrow dark street. Aaron shrank under the wall. The trotting torch-bearer drew near, and now Aaron perceived the other two men slowly trotting behind, stealthily, bearing a stretcher on which a body was wrapped up, completely and darkly covered.
As twilight came on, the moccoli commenced, and as it grew darker the whole street twinkled with lights, which would have been innumerable if every torch-bearer had not been surrounded by a host of enemies, who tried to extinguish his poor little twinkle.
A single touch to the dry tinder was enough. With a dull explosion, the mass burst into flame. Shouting in his exultation, the little torch-bearer rushed on, igniting pile after pile, and leaving behind him almost at every step a mighty conflagration.
"Pardon me, my friend," said he, addressing himself to a torch-bearer, "but can you tell me, if you please, who all this music is for?" "For the bourgeois who lives there." replied he, pointing out to Chicot his own house. "Decidedly it is for me!" thought he. "Whom do you belong to?" he asked. "To the bourgeois who lives there." "Ah! they not only come for me, but they belong to me still better.
Nicholson moved on. At the altar steps he came to a halt and waited. The figure did not stir nor seem to be aware of his presence. A torch-bearer knelt on the lower step, and the fiery deflection threw into plastic relief the set and pitiless features beneath the jeweled turban. Gone was the old simplicity.
Taking up a course of study leading to the degree of M.E., or C.E., or E.E., in four years, upon graduating, he can retrace his way, or the way of his brother, over the battle-fields of Europe, a constructive rather than a destructive agent now, a torch-bearer, a pilgrim, a son of democracy once again advancing the standard in the interests of humanity.
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