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The Divine Fire

CHAPTER XII
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CHAPTER XII.
A tiny jet of gas made a glimmer in the fan-light of Mrs.Downey's boarding-house next door.

Mrs.Downey kept it burning there for Mr.
Rickman.
Guided by this beacon, he reached his door, escaping many dangers.

For the curbstone was a rocking precipice, and the street below it a grey and shimmering stream, that rolled, and flowed, and rolled, and never rested.

The houses, too, were so drunk as to be dangerous.

They bowed over him, swaying hideously from their foundations.


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