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Very cautiously they felt their way along until they came at length to the grating through which Gurdon had made so dramatic an entrance on the night before. He took from his pocket a box of vestas, and ventured to strike one. He held it down close to the ground, shading the tiny point of flame in the hollow of his hand. "Here is a bit of luck to begin with," he chuckled.
I plunged my hands half abstractedly into the pockets of my trousers something jingled! Truly they had buried me in haste. My purse, a small bunch of keys, my card-case one by one I drew them out and examined them surprisedly they looked so familiar, and withal so strange! I searched again; and this time found something of real value to one in my condition a small box of wax vestas.
And yet undeniably there was a something there. He thrust out his hands in the darkness. Yes, there was something, something large, something smooth, something cold. "Heaven forgive me!" said Gideon, "it feels like a piano." And the next moment he remembered the vestas in his waistcoat-pocket and had struck a light.
"Here," he went on, giving it back to Avice, "you hold it, and I'll strike a match the moonlight's scarcely strong enough. Now," he continued, taking a box of vestas from his pocket and striking one, "steady 'If Miss Harborough will come up to see Susan Hamthwaite I will tell you something that you might like to know. Ah!" he exclaimed, throwing away the match.
It is stated that a week's work in Birmingham comprises, among its various results, the fabrication of 14,000,000 pens, 6,000 bedsteads, 7,000 guns, 300,000,000 cut nails, 100,000,000 buttons, 1,000 saddles, 5,000,000 copper or bronze coins, 20,000 pairs of spectacles, six tons of papier maché wares, over £30,000 worth of jewelry, 4,000 miles of iron and steel wire, ten tons of pins, five tons of hairpins and hooks and eyes, 130,000 gross of wood screws, 500 tons of nuts and screw bolts and spikes, fifty tons of wrought iron hinges, 350 miles' length of wax for vestas, forty tons of refined metal, forty tons of German silver, 1,000 dozens of fenders, 3,500 bellows, 800 tons of brass and copper wares these, with a multitude of other articles, being exported to almost all parts of the civilized world.
Dig, as it happened, was out, not altogether to his chum's regret, who set himself, with somewhat curious agitation, to examine his booty. First of all he examined once more the match-box, and satisfied himself that there was no doubt about the identity of its contents with the stray vestas he had picked up. The result was decisive.
Far down the long street, what looked like an army of cockroaches could be seen assembling, figures, called las vestas, in tall, black, sharp-pointed hoods, like so many astrologers, or judges of the Inquisition, their cloth masks rolled up over their foreheads, their long black trains hung over their arms, and each with a baton painted black in one hand.
"I wouldn't or, if I did, I'd see to it that it was a safety, instead of a fusee that burns fiercely for a minute and then goes out altogether. Stick to vestas." "I don't know what you mean by vestas, but I'm through just the same," retorted Mrs. Upton; and she really was for five years. "Vestas are nice quiet matches that don't splurge and splutter. They give satisfaction to everybody.
A dark object, not unlike the human form divine, appeared on the brink of the ditch. "It's a man," said Gideon, "it's only a man; he seems to be asleep and snoring. Hullo," he added, a moment after, "there must be something wrong with him, he won't waken." Gideon produced his vestas, struck one, and by its light recognised the tow head of Harker. "This is the man," said he, "as drunk as Belial.
And on the table in the window a Japanese flower-bowl that served as a handy receptacle for cigarette ash and spent vestas. Two immense mirrors facing each other reflected these objects and Poppy, when she was there, for ever and ever, in diminishing perspective. But Poppy was not there. Passing through this brilliant scene into the back room beyond, he found her finishing her supper.
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