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Updated: June 16, 2025
After which a wax-match was lit, and the ends of the tape covered with sealing-wax, and stamped with an old signet-ring. "There, my boy, we'll leave it for the present. Some day I will go and see my solicitor about the matter." Tom uttered a sigh of relief as the documents were locked up, for the sight of them troubled him.
The grim old coal-bunker in the passage, the silent corridor, and the dreary room at the end of it, never looked more dismal than as he surveyed them now by the light of a little wax-match he had lighted to guide his way.
Was it not only the other day a well-dressed stranger hanging about my lost village had been called for by two gendarmes, owing to Pierre's watchful eye? And did not the farmer Milon pay dearly enough for the applejack he distilled one dark night? I recalled, too, a certain morning when, a stranger on the marsh, I had lighted Pierre's cigarette with an honest wax-match from England.
For there was a loud scratching noise, a line of light, and a wax-match flashed out, and then burned steadily, lighting up Uncle Richard's stern face and the little bedroom, as he stood a couple of yards back from the window. "Now, sir, if you please," came in severe tones. "What is the meaning of this?"
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