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A number of tables whose sloppy imitation rosewood tops shone dimly in the murky gas-light, were set about, here and there, for the accommodation of a herd of sleepy-eyed, case-hardened habitues.
The interview over, Jo is overwhelmed to find his hand closed over a piece of money larger than he has ever owned before. His first proceeding is to hold the piece of money to the gas-light, and to be overpowered at finding that it is yellow gold. His next is to give it a one-sided bite at the edge, as a test of its quality.
He watched the blank door open, and her slender shadow stand out for a moment against the yellow gas-light of the hall. She did not look back. Perhaps she too was spell-bound. The door closed with an odd sound as though the house had clicked its tongue in good-natured amusement. "Now you see how it happens, Robert Stonehouse!" At any rate, the spell was broken.
Her ruddy hair, heaped nigh on her head, was surmounted by a jewelled comb, whence fell a cataract of curls of various lengths and sizes, that touched the filmy lace which bordered her shoulders like a line of foam where blue silk broke on dimpled flesh. As Regina gazed admiringly at her, Olga came closer, and stood under the gas-light. "A penny for your thoughts! Am I handsome?
Come and walk with us until you can have him again. Miss Mitchell, Miss Dennis." It was a fact that, though Eurie was of the same church with Grace Dennis, and though she knew Grace by sight, and bowed to her in the daytime, their familiarity with each other was not so sufficient as to insure a gas-light recognition. "We know each other," Grace said, brightly, "at least we ought to.
The quantity of coals carbonized amounted to 8,840 chaldrons; produced 106,080,000 cubic feet of gas. The South London Gas-Light and Coke Company, at Bankside: The number of retorts was 140; gasometers 3; the contents of the whole 41,110 cubic feet; and their mains from 30 to 40 miles in length.
His hatred seemed to well up out of the very depths of balked effort and thwarted hopes, and the fact made him more pitiable, and yet more dire. Faxon's look reverted to Mr. Lavington, as if to surprise in him a corresponding change. At first none was visible: his pinched smile was screwed to his blank face like a gas-light to a white-washed wall.
Vertrees that neither of them had crossed the threshold since the dark day; but the gas-light, though from a single jet, shed no melancholy upon Bibbs, nor could any room seem bare that knew the glowing presence of Mary. He spoke lightly, not sadly. "Yes, it's come. I've shirked and put off, but I can't shirk and put off any longer. It's really my part to go to him at least it would save my face.
It was very light indeed, a perfect flood of gas-light pouring on a white curtain that partially covered the whole sash. Partially, not altogether. Whether accidentally or by intention, it was swept away at the lower right-hand corner, leaving a little of the top of the white wall of the room visible, with the edge of the ceiling.
"Look at me again, Frank; try if you cannot recollect me," said he, as we entered the travellers' room, and the gas-light shone full on his face. I looked; but in vain. "I am ashamed to say, I do not know who you can be, though I have a kind of consciousness that your features are those of an old friend." "Do you remember Richard Musgrave?" "What! Dick Muzzy?
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