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These predictions corresponded to a significant difference in how long the patients lived . One of the candles on the mantel was blown out , and the little machine suddenly swung round , became indistinct , was seen as a ghost for a second perhaps , as an eddy of faintly glittering brass and ivory ; and it was gone - - vanished ! At intervals white globes hung from the ceiling - - many of them cracked and smashed - - which suggested that originally the place had been artificially lit . In fact the two major legacies of the eighteenth century , free-market capitalism and universal human rights , show much more promise of animating the politics of the next millennium than anything conjured up in the nineteenth , let alone the twentieth , century . I was about to throw it away , but I remembered that it was inflammable and burned with a good bright flame - - was , in fact , an excellent candle - - and I put it in my pocket . I had half a mind to follow , till I remembered how he detested any fuss about himself . It seemed that they vanished among the bushes . The grey downpour was swept aside and vanished like the trailing garments of a ghost .