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"Surely, sir," cried the youth, recovering his gayety, "there must be one love that can resist anything - is there not, Fanny?""Here is your candle; you keep your father up beyond his usual hour."
"Berry well, now look him t'rough," said the black, peeping over the housekeeper's shoulder, as he held a long lank candle of yellow tallow, in such a manner as to throw its feeble light on the volume.
Sergeant Hollister would be glad to hold a candle to him, indeed!""Pooh!" said Betty, in her philosophical way; "ye're no thinking that Mister Hollister is an officer, and stands next the cornet, in the troop.
There was no lamp or candle, but the blazing fire of dry wood made the interior of the hut light enough to read by.
About half-past nine or ten o'clock he came along the deserted street to where the Adored Unknown lived; he paused a moment; no sound fell upon his listening ear; a candle was casting a dull glow upon the curtain of a second-story window.
"What makes the candle blow so?" said Aunt Polly.
He took out his sycamore scroll and placed it by the candle.
It blowed the candle!""Mercy on us!
And you went to bed, and I was so sorry that I took and wrote on a piece of sycamore bark, 'We ain't dead--we are only off being pirates,' and put it on the table by the candle; and then you looked so good, laying there asleep, that I thought I went and leaned over and kissed you on the lips."
The moment a candle was lighted there was a general rush upon the owner of it; a struggle and a gallant defence followed, but the candle was soon knocked down or blown out, and then there was a glad clamor of laughter and a new chase.
By-and-by Tom took Becky's candle and blew it out.
She knew that Tom had a whole candle and three or four pieces in his pockets--yet he must economize.
They sat down, and Tom fastened his candle to the wall in front of them with some clay.
That little piece is our last candle!"
The children fastened their eyes upon their bit of candle and watched it melt slowly and pitilessly away; saw the half inch of wick stand alone at last; saw the feeble flame rise and fall, climb the thin column of smoke, linger at its top a moment, and then--the horror of utter darkness reigned!
Tom got down on his knees and felt below, and then as far around the corner as he could reach with his hands conveniently; he made an effort to stretch yet a little farther to the right, and at that moment, not twenty yards away, a human hand, holding a candle, appeared from behind a rock!
Ordinarily one could find half a dozen bits of candle stuck around in the crevices of this vestibule, left there by tourists; but there were none now.
He held his candle aloft and said: "Look as far around the corner as you can.
Right yonder's where I saw Injun Joe poke up his candle, Huck!"Huck stared at the mystic sign awhile, and then said with a shaky voice:"Tom, less git out of here!"
Tom got into this and held his candle as far under the rock as he could, but said he could not see to the end of the rift.
Wandering thus about, I knew not whither, I passed by an apothecary's shop in Leadenhall Street, when I saw lie on a stool just before the counter a little bundle wrapped in a white cloth; beyond it stood a maid-servant with her back to it, looking towards the top of the shop, where the apothecary's apprentice, as I suppose, was standing upon the counter, with his back also to the door, and a candle in his hand, looking and reaching up to the upper shelf for something he wanted, so that both were engaged mighty earnestly, and nobody else in the shop.
As I told him I could go directly to the place, he left it to me; and the hole being very dark, I squeezed myself into it, with a candle in my hand, and so reached the pieces out to him, taking care as I gave him some so to secure as much about myself as I could conveniently dispose of.
And, on the other side of the arcade a candle, stuck in the middle of an argand lamp glass, casts glistening stars into the box of imitation jewelry.
Laurent had a long alley to follow and a few steps to ascend, before he could take his candle.
He ascended to the other floors more gently, holding aloft his candle, lighting all the corners before which he had to pass.
He sat up, lit his candle, and taxed himself with being an idiot.
She ended by leaving her candle burning, and by preventing herself falling asleep, so as to always have her eyes wide open.
The carrier, however, perceiving by the light of the innkeeper candle how it fared with his ladylove, quitting Don Quixote, ran to bring her the help she needed; and the innkeeper did the same but with a different intention, for his was to chastise the lass, as he believed that beyond a doubt she alone was the cause of all the harmony.
Between the fingers of her left hand she held a short lighted candle, while with her right she shaded it to keep the light from her eyes, which were covered by spectacles of great size, and she advanced with noiseless steps, treading very softly.
what's this I see?" let fall the candle in her fright, and then finding herself in the dark, turned about to make off, but stumbling on her skirts in her consternation, she measured her length with a mighty fall.
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