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I didn't know that that gentleman had gone. 'He went up the chimney, as all that kind of gentlemen do. Why the deuce did you let him in when I told you not to? 'Really, sir, I don't know. I gave him your message, and he looked at me, and that is all I remember till I found myself standing in this room.
The snow often veiled what light of day there was, and the great sea-winds shrieked around the hut and blew the peat smoke down the chimney into their faces; and there was little warmth or comfort, and none of the pretty accessories that love generally delights in. But David's love was not dependent upon accidentals.
Don't I just recognise the ghost of a dim memory of a children's Christmas party at the house of Fourteenth Street neighbours they come back to me as "the Beans": who and what and whence and whither the kindly Beans? where I admired over the chimney piece the full-length portrait of a lady seated on the ground in a Turkish dress, with hair flowing loose from a cap which was not as the caps of ladies known to me, and I think with a tambourine, who was somehow identified to my enquiring mind as the wife of the painter of the piece, Mr.
Outside of the hymn-book, the first rhymes I committed to memory were in the "Old Farmer's Almanac," files of which hung in the chimney corner, and were an inexhaustible source of entertainment to us younger ones.
But the summer smiled upon those steadfast, earnest, rigorous citizens, and in the wild and bitter winters each household would gather about the cheerful fire in the great chimney which in some of those cottages formed the major part of the building, and find content and peace in quiet talk and in tales of the past, of the French and Indian wars, and of their ancestors, long ago, in old England.
Indeed, already I have the logs cut out in part for an addition, on the other side of the chimney." The Major rose at this, smiling again, and frankly put out his hand. "I meant no harm, you know, Tom, by my barracks jest. Faith! I envy the lad the privilege of living here with you. The happiest days of my life, dear friend, were those we spent together while I was waiting for my bride." Mr.
Silent and cool, as if the house were his; smoking away like a factory chimney. Mr Chollop was, of course, one of the most remarkable men in the country; but he really was a notorious person besides.
"A volcano is built up by the extrusion of lava and cinders from below, and these cannot break forth at the top of a mountain already formed, especially when that mountain has no volcanic chimney and no crater, and Everest had neither."
The barn itself was made of logs, the interstices closely chinked and daubed with clay, so as to make it almost air-tight. Around the building on the inside ran a large stone flue, like a chimney laid on the ground. Outside was a huge pile of wood and a liberal supply of charcoal.
But he did not struggle. "Why do you do that?" "I am curious, Mr. Ferraud, when I see a hand like this. Would you mind letting me see the other?" "Not in the least." M. Ferraud offered the other hand. Fitzgerald let go. "What was your object?" "Mon dieu! what object?" Fitzgerald lowered his voice. "What was your object in digging holes in yonder chimney? Did you know what was there?
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