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Then with still a pocket full, he went straight to the shop where he had seen such stones, and spoke to the shopkeeper who was seated at the entrance to his shop, calmly smoking his water-pipe. "Do you want to buy any more stones like those?" he asked, pointing to some in a brass tray.
You will see many fine old ruins, Mr Cypress; crumbling pillars, and mossy walls many a one-legged Venus and headless Minerva many a Neptune buried in sand many a Jupiter turned topsy-turvy many a perforated Bacchus doing duty as a water-pipe many reminiscences of the ancient world, which I hope was better worth living in than the modern; though, for myself, I care not a straw more for one than the other, and would not go twenty miles to see any thing that either could show.
In the middle of it he looked up suddenly to say: "Son, what was the name o' that Indiany town with the big water-pipe contract?" Tom gave it in a word, and Caleb passed the paper back, with his thumb on one of the press despatches. "Read that," he said. Tom read, and the wrathful scowl evoked by the foolish editorial gave place to a flitting smile of triumph.
But there, as Melky threw open the door, his words of assurance came to an end. His face dropped as he stared into an empty room. Yada had risked his neck, and gone down the water-pipe. For the better part of a fortnight the sleuth-hounds of New Scotland Yard hunted for Mr. Mori Yada in all the likely and unlikely places in London and sent out their enquiries much further afield.
One or another of my people' he looked obliquely at the Director-General of Public Education 'would at once write a letter to the Viceroy, and perhaps I should be deprived of my ruffle of drums. He unscrewed the mouthpiece of his silver water-pipe, fitted a plain amber mouthpiece, and passed his pipe to me. Yet he is, when he wills, an expert log-snatcher.
It might be, he felt, that a lead water-pipe ran somewhere about them. He would cut it without compunction. He took two steps across the room, when an audible and terrified note of warning broke from her swollen lips. He darted back to her, in wonder, searching her straining face with his little shaft of lantern light. She did not speak; but he followed her eyes.
This distinction between form and content, between expression and that which is expressed, is temptingly convenient. It is a useful tool of analysis, but it is dangerous to try to make it anything more than that. If we were looking at a water-pipe and the water which flows through it, it would be easy to keep a clear distinction between the form of the iron pipe, and its content of water.
Reassured many times as to the price of those plums, Tota cuddled himself down to sleep. The two sleek, white well-bullocks in the courtyard were steadily chewing the cud of their evening meal; old Pir Khan squatted at the head of Holden's horse, his police sabre across his knees, pulling drowsily at a big water-pipe that croaked like a bull- frog in a pond.
Kneeling on the window-sill he groped about with his feet to find the water-pipe that ran down the whole side of the house close to the window. Ah, he felt it.
It was the fifth week of my being kept a prisoner, for I couldn't be always risking my neck across that water-pipe, and taking my walks abroad through poor old Cos's window, and my spirit was quite broken, sir dammy, quite beat, and I was thinking of putting an end to myself, and should have done it in another week, when who should drop down from heaven but Altamont!"
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