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The next moment she turned her back to me, and was stooping whispering in the housewife's ear. A stranger might have thought that she had trodden on a hot ember. But another idea, and a very strange one, came into my mind; and I stood up silently. The woman's back was towards me, but something in her height, her shape, the pose of her head hidden as it was by her shawl, seemed familiar.
"If you'll come, I'll show you the little door and the tunnel," Hortense said. "It would be too small for me to approach," Grandfather said, "and I am much too old to eat thirteen cookies." "But," Hortense urged, "I want you to go with me to see the Little People. I must get Alligator and Coal and Ember back." Grandfather shook his head.
At this spot he purposed to set a cunning snare for Prince Ember. Across the great Plain he scuttled in haste. So like to the ashes about him was he in color that only those who knew him well would have been able to see him at all.
He has discovered us, and means to destroy us!” Prince Ember cast his arm about her and pressed her dear head protectingly to his breast. Spurred on by his love for her his courage mounted high. Looking to where she directed his gaze, he, too, saw, looming out of the murky clouds, a great shape, fierce and terrible—the giant, Curling Smoke.
Suddenly, from below the palace windows, the sound of many feet was heard, and the air was rent by shouts of welcome. The Princess broke off her song. With one accord the royal company started to their feet, certain that naught but the return of Prince Ember could cause so great a tumult.
Once more Rushing Flame set out in haste on the King’s business, but this time it was to summon Prince Ember, that he might learn from the royal lips the task that was his to perform. Beautiful is the Land of Glowing Embers, near to the Palace of King Red Flame. When morning dawns, a light soft and rosy bathes its castles and its gardens.
I turned my burning face away; under the low sun, glowing, darkened and crimson, like un ember snatched from the fire, the sea lay outspread, offering all its immense stillness to the approach of the fiery orb. Twice he was going to speak, but checked himself; at last, as if he had found a formula "I shall be faithful," he said quietly.
The only sensations she realized were a dead weariness that hung on her spirit and body like a palpable weight, and, far down in her heart, something that smouldered and burned like a live ember, ready to burst forth and blaze at a touch. She had walked but a block or two when, through her numbness, crept a dim little shadow of dread.
In answer to my summons Liddy Ember appeared before me one morning and outspread a Vienna book of coloured fashion-plates. "Dressmakin' 'd be a real drudgery for me," she said, "if it wasn't for havin' the colour plates an' makin' what I can to look like 'em. Sometimes I get a collar or a cuff that seems almost like the picture. There's always somethin' in the way of a cedar," she added blithely.
In all Saturdays throughout the year, except on the Saturdays of Advent, Lent, Ember Days or occurring Vigils, or unless a feast of nine lessons has to be said on the Saturday, then it is laid down in the rubrics that the Office of the Blessed Virgin should always be said with the rite of a simple office.
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