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Pickwick. Mr. Pickwick looked at him. Heavy footsteps were heard in the passage; the parlour door was suddenly burst open; and the man who had cleaned Mr. Pickwick's boots on his first arrival, rushed into the room, followed by the fat boy and all the domestics. 'What the devil's the meaning of this? exclaimed the host. 'The kitchen chimney ain't a-fire, is it, Emma? inquired the old lady.
It was a laborious climb, in that thin atmosphere, to ascend from D to A street, and you were panting and out of breath when you got there; but you could turn around and go down again like a house a-fire so to speak.
Here I also, standing by a candle that was brought for sealing of a letter, do set my periwigg a-fire, which made such an odd noise, nobody could tell what it was till they saw the flame, my back being to the candle.
'Halloa! cried a voice inside. 'Wa'et be the matther noo? Be the toon a-fire? Ding, but thou mak'st noise eneaf! With these words, John Browdie opened the door himself, and opening his eyes too to their utmost width, cried, as he clapped his hands together, and burst into a hearty roar: 'Ecod, it be the godfeyther, it be the godfeyther! Tilly, here be Misther Nickleby. Gi' us thee hond, mun.
For lovers, indeed, no excuse is clear, * Save excuse of sight and excuse of eye." He considered it awhile and, seeing it absently brooding in its cage, he shed tears and repeated these couplets, I love a gazelle who is slender-slim, * Whose glances for keenness the scymitar beat: For her love are my heart and my vitals a-fire, * And my frame consumes in love's fever-heat.
Upon this the whole family was frighted, concluding that the boy had said that; the house was a-fire: so they left their cards above, and one would have got out of the balcony, but it was not open; the other went up to fetch down his children, that were in bed: so all got clear out of the house. And no sooner so, but the house fell down indeed, from top to bottom.
The wind was from left to right, so that the smoke carried free of the trail. "She's a-fire, boys!" exclaimed Wid. "We better git out of here while we can." "We ain't a-going to do nothing of the sort," said a quiet voice. Wid Gardner turned to look into the face of Sim Gage. "We're a-going right on up ahead." Wid Gardner looked at Doctor Barnes.
"I should like it monstrously if I were not moped up in school," she answered. "So you have come back. How did you hurt your arm?" she said, in the most provincial of dialects. "In the fire, madam." "What? In snatching your innamorata from the flames?" "Not precisely," he said. "Come, now, tell me; did she set the room a-fire?" demanded the young lady. "Oh, you need not think to deceive me.
Her very blood was a-fire with the strange, intoxicating joy of life. She wanted to go on for ever. But it ended at length. She came to earth after her rapturous flight, and found herself standing with her partner in a curtained recess of the ballroom from which a glass door led on to the verandah that ran round the hotel.
They're all sitting in a row on that log, Max, and lookin' solemn-like at the cabin. What in the wide world is up? She ain't a-fire that I can notice." "Come along; let's find out," said Max, stooping to his end of the pole upon which the hind quarter of venison was slung. "I'll just bust if I don't know soon, because I hate mysteries," muttered Steve, as he copied the example of his chum.
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