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Updated: June 3, 2025
Overhead saints, prophets, and martyrs, standing immovable in the tinted glories of the stained windows, fling broad patches of purple, emerald, and yellow, upon the intaglio pavement. The high altar, inclosed by a balustrade of colored marble raised on steps richly carpeted, glitters with gemmed chalices and crosses. Behind, countless wax-lights illuminate the rich frescoes of the tribune.
A silence followed, during which Constance studied the lake; when she turned back, she found Tony arranging a spray of oleander that had dropped from her belt in the band of his hat. She viewed this performance in silent disfavour. Having finished to his satisfaction, he tossed the hat aside and seated himself on the balustrade. Her frown became visible.
For a long moment Ravenslee sat languidly twisting the button in thin white fingers, then flicked it far out over the balustrade down among the dense evergreens in the garden below. The Old Un gasped, Joe gaped, and the Spider sighed audibly. "Lorgorramighty! Oh, Guv, Guv " quavered the old man, "you've throwed away our cloo our blood-cloo th' p'lice you've lost our evidence "
The balcony door was open, the red velvet piano cover was hanging over the balustrade. Well, evidently order had been restored again otherwise, would the cover have been hanging over the balustrade?... Of course not, so forward then, and upstairs without fear.... The maid opened the door.
Its domes and pinnacles had been hidden by the low-hanging awning, but now, with her eyes on a level with the balustrade, she could see the lovely temple in all its gracious outlines. "And I remember I used to wonder whether I liked it," she thought to herself, with a singular feeling, as if she had been recalling a past state of existence. She rose to her feet and stepped inside.
The steps were on the landing now; he heard the crack of the balustrade; but it seemed they were coming very quietly. There was a moment's silence; the muscles of his throat contracted sharply, then there came the servant's tap; the handle was turned. Ralph stood up quickly, still holding the papers, as the door opened, and Beatrice stepped forward into the room.
"It's impossible," cried the first constable "no man can stand up against the wind on such a devil's gallery: what the devil? it has no balustrade." "Shall we pitch the fellow down below?" said the second constable. "I have nothing to say against it," replied one of the dragoons. "Nor I," said the other, "but then mind we must tell no tales."
The young man was standing leaning on the balustrade at the head of the stairs, as if unable to take another step. Wiseman bent over him. "Worth, my dear fellow, what is the matter with you? Does it half kill you to overthrow me at law?" "I fear that I am not well," replied Ishmael, in a hollow voice, and with a haggard smile. "What is it? Only exhaustion, I hope?
The Caliph, not daring to object, abandoned himself to grief and the wind that ravaged his entrails, whilst his mother went forward with the requisite operations. Phials of serpents’ oil, mummies, and bones were soon set in order on the balustrade of the tower; the pile began to rise, and in three hours was as many cubits high.
More than once I saw her and Jim through the window of my room come out together quietly and lean on the rough balustrade two white forms very close, his arm about her waist, her head on his shoulder. Their soft murmurs reached me, penetrating, tender, with a calm sad note in the stillness of the night, like a self-communion of one being carried on in two tones.
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