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'She sleeps, thought I, somewhat surprised; and bending over in the dim light of the unsnuffed candle, I kissed her lips heavens! what made them so very cold and why was the hand which I had lasciviously laid upon her bosom, dampened with a warm liquid? I rushed to the table, seized the candle, and returned to the bed-side.
Sometimes at midnight, after having toiled for hours at my occupations, I would fling myself back on my chair, look about the poor apartment, dimly lighted by an unsnuffed candle, or upon the heaps of books and papers before me, and exclaim,—‘Do I exist? Do these things, which I think I see about me, exist, or do they not? Is not everything a dream—a deceitful dream?
But if an English lady observe, when the candles have long stood unsnuffed, that "those odious long wicks will soon grow up to the ceiling," she can be accused only of an error of vision.
"Remember," said I, as we ran up stairs, "Spanish ambassador, Russian envoy, Polish Count and Countess, and an English general and his lady strong in rank we'll burst upon the enemy." I flung open the door, but my spirits were suddenly checked; I saw it was no time for jest and merriment. Dead silence solemn stillness candles with unsnuffed wicks of portentous length.
He had left the wick of the candle unsnuffed till it had risen higher than the flame, and had burned into an odd pent-house shape at the top, from which morsels of the charred cotton fell off from time to time in little flakes. He took up the snuffers now and trimmed the wick. The light brightened directly, and the room became less dismal.
He pulled the bed down, and showed him how it worked, and he lighted two bulbous gas-burners, contrived to burn the gas at such a low pressure that they were like two unsnuffed candles for brilliancy.
With his elbows on the table he sat between the two empty bottles, while spectres danced in the light of the unsnuffed candle spectres such as Hoffmann strews over his punch-drenched pages, like black, fantastic dust. Danglars alone was content and joyous he had got rid of an enemy and made his own situation on the Pharaon secure.
He turned, and there in the doorway, holding back the heavy portiere, stood Juliette, graceful, smiling, a little pale, this no doubt owing to the flickering light of the unsnuffed candles. So young and girlish did she look in her soft, white muslin frock that at sight of her the tension in Deroulede's face seemed to relax.
Sometimes at midnight, after having toiled for hours at my occupations, I would fling myself back on my chair, look about the poor apartment, dimly lighted by an unsnuffed candle, or upon the heaps of books and papers before me, and exclaim, 'Do I exist? Do these things, which I think I see about me, exist, or do they not? Is not everything a dream a deceitful dream?
It is only me, Charlotte! Her heart did not still its fluttering till she was safe in the drawing-room, with the windows fastened and bolted, and the familiar walls hemming her round, and shutting her in. She had sate down upon a packing case; cheerless, Chill was the dreary and dismantled room no fire nor other light, but Charlotte's long unsnuffed candle.
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