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Updated: June 12, 2025
They also etched flowers and landscapes on panes of glass, and manufactured 'transparencies' out of different thicknesses of cap-paper. 'I feel a sort of tender pity for Anna and myself, wrote Mary long afterwards, 'when I remember how we were always seeking and struggling after the beautiful, and after artistic production, though we knew nothing of art.
Every Dred-Scottite had carried a torch, and many transparencies, so that the very glory of it had turned night into day. The Chief Lictor had distributed these torches with an unheard-of liberality. But there lacked not detractors who swore that John Dibble and other Lincolnites had applied for torches for the mere pleasure of carrying them.
To put the matter brutally, politics, despite the lofty sentiments on the transparencies in torchlight processions, had only to do with the belly, not the soul. Politics and government, one perceives, had nothing to do with religion, nor education with any of these. A secularized and disjointed world!
The torchlights, as is customary, must be carried by hatless and shoeless urchins, who will feel great pride in the service, and have no scruple at scrambling for the pennies thrown them by the mischievous who line the sidewalk. The transparencies must also bear the significant motto, "Welcome to the brave."
"But it is horrible horrible!" cried Miss Sally. "Mr. Hucks, lend me your stick, if you please. This window won't open." He passed his stick to her, supposing that she meant in some way to prise the window open. But she took it and deliberately smashed a pane two panes all the six panes with their coloured transparencies of the Prodigal Son.
That night a thousand or more of the jubilant Washington Whigs marched in procession from Capitol Hill to the White House, with torches, music, transparencies, and fireworks, escorting a catafalque on which was a coffin labeled, "The sub-Treasury."
After Binny came the band, playing for dear life "Hail the Conquering Hero" and after the band, two and two a great line of citizens with kerosene torches. After the torches came the transparencies: "Levine Wins!" "The Reservation is Ours." "Back to the land, boys!" "We've dropped the white men's burden." And following the transparencies came a surprise for crowd and paraders alike.
Instantaneously, the whole procession began to sing the refrain, and the people in the street, and those in the wagons and carriages, and those leaning from the windows joined with one accord, the ringing bells caught the time of the song, and the upper air reverberated in the rhythm. The Harkless Club of Carlow wheeled into Main Street, two hundred strong, with their banners and transparencies.
On grounds tragically silly, as he thought them. On the Dauphin's Wedding, a Termagant's Infanta coming hither as Dauphiness, at this time, there needed to be Court-shows, Dramaticules, Transparencies, Feasts of Lanterns, or I know not what. Alas, and the feat done was, to one of the parties, so unspeakably contemptible!
The rival factions expressed their confidence and enthusiasm by parading at night in a series of battalions armed with torches some resplendently flaring, some glittering gayly through colored glass and bearing transparencies inscribed with trenchant sentiments.
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