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flambeau

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flambeau
A luminaire resembling a flaming torch.


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, were rigidly ranked, until a tall shadow fell across the table, and his friend Flambeau sat down opposite.
But in his best days (I mean, of course, his worst) Flambeau was a figure as statuesque and international as the Kaiser.
Here, scrambling over the heads of the crowd, he managed to get to the wall; when, seizing a flambeau from one of the Caryatides, he returned, as he went, to the centre of the room-leaping, with the agility of a monkey, upon the kings head, and thence clambered a few feet up the chain; holding down the torch to examine the group of ourang-outangs, and still screaming: "I shall soon find out who they are
 
 
 
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