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"Were it not better first to return to Toulouse and obtain a counter-warrant from the King?" There was wisdom in his words much wisdom. But my blood was afire, and I was in too hot a haste to reason. "Return to Toulouse?" I echoed scornfully. "A waste of time, Captain. No, I will go straight to Lavedan. I need no counter-warrant.
The difference between them and her was one of method; she, all afire with energy and enthusiasm, would have gone on in faith; they, more prudent and calculating, wished to be sure of each step before they advanced another. To her great relief she was permitted to have her way.
The tone was sharp, and a trifle spiteful, so Johnnie's wits gathered themselves into marching order. "So I have, Dolly," he answered. "I am enamoured of " "Whom?" "A friend of Master Jeffreys." The girl's cheeks flushed. "Thou art bold to say such a thing to me." "I imbibed courage with a flagon of sack this morning." "It hath got to thy head." "And my heart, Dolly; I am afire, heart and head.
There came again something of her old admiration for a boy, impetuous and lovable, who had tormented and defended her with the same hand. Patriotism, stronger in Virginia than many of us now can conceive, was on Clarence's side. Ambition was strong in her likewise. Now was she all afire with the thought that she, a woman, might by a single word give the South a leader.
The Goodwife ran for her broom, which she dipped in water and then beat upon the little flames as they appeared here and there in the grass. The Goodman mounted to the roof at once, and, with Dan to fetch water and Nancy to bring up buckets from the well, they managed to keep it too wet for the flying sparks to set it afire.
"I am not insinuating anything," his mother returned, white-lipped with anger, "but I certainly think Margaret owes both you and me an explanation of the untruth she told us at the supper table the night you introduced Mr. Gordon to us." I sprang to my feet with my cheeks afire. "Mother Graham, I have listened to you with respect as long as I can," I exclaimed.
Your mother's beauty kept Helium at war for many years, and well, Tara of Helium, if I were a young man I should doubtless be willing to set all Barsoom afire to win you, as I still would to keep your divine mother," and he smiled across the sorapus table and its golden service at the undimmed beauty of Mars' most beautiful woman.
But the boats came bravely on, bravely manned; hundreds might be driven from the bridge-building, but other hundreds sprang to take their places and always from the heights came the rain of iron, smashing, shivering, setting afire, tearing up the streets, bringing down the walls, ruining, wounding, slaying! McLaws sent an order to Barksdale, Barksdale gave it to his brigade.
The rest of the livestock was turned from the corrals and the cabin and stables set afire. Then, as a fitting finish to the work of the hour, the three culprits were hung on extended limbs of trees bordering the ruins. "Now the skunks will have something to look at when they come back here to plan their stealing," Jim Lough had said as the posse dispersed.
We must loose our tongues till we set the wide world’s heart afire, and with bright rays of guidance blot out the armies of the night, and then, for His sake, on the field of sacrifice, fling down our lives.
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