Outsiders; An Outline
by Robert William Chambers (9781150692451)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: F. A. Stokes company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. NIGHT AND DAY. A chapter ending with a ray of light. The heat slowly increased; cloudless days slipped into brief, breathless nights, leaving on his tired brain aching impressions of miles of streets glaring in hopeless sunlight, of roofs and chimneys clean cut against intense blue skies, of summer stars drowned in the depths of hot midnights that smothered earth and air in a shadowless purple sea. The white dawn brought no breath; the steel- grey shadows of masonry and brick shrank as the sun crept up, then quivered and lengthened, crawling across hot pavements, across dry gutters, stealing over stony squares, till the red cinders kindling in the west flung crimson sparks on every window and the dense cross-streets, from river to river, smouldered in fiery shadow. Then the grey haze, rising from dock and pier, dimmed the last stain on the horizon, and all light faded, until, through twilight falling, the white electric lamps snapped alight and a million ghostly gas jets outlined the black city in squares and lines and angles, reflecting the great signs and arcs of the star-lit constellations. With dusk the tense drawn cord of life relaxed, and the iron city slumbered, fitfully, moaning in its sleep: with dawn the cord grew tense again and the deep hum started in the city's heart, increasing, growing, roaring through its arteries -- ringing skyward to the zenith, vibrating from the Palisades to the sea. And Oliver went about to sel...

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