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And again she covered him with kisses, and then allowed him to go away to his own room. When Edith was alone she sat back in an easy-chair, with her feet on the fender before the turf fire, and began to consider how things might go with her poor brother. "If they should get hold of him, and murder him!" she said to herself.
In this country it was formerly made by the village blacksmith, and, like the iron stool, kitchen fender, and other iron and brass kitchen utensils and furnishings, was often made quite decorative. It would appear as if the smith filled up his spare moments in designing intricate patterns with which to decorate the grid.
I'd swap heaven and my chances o' salvation, wife, jist to hae her sittin' here on the fender, as she used to sit. Hunger an' a' the rest wad be easy borne for that."
Staying here with us you are doing yourself no good." He rose and came to where she stood with one foot upon the fender, looking down into the fire. His doing this disconcerted her. So long as he remained seated at the other end of the room, she was the sub-editor, counselling the staff for its own good.
I didn't want to kill anybody. But I don't trust you, William. I'm always expecting you to double-cross me. Last night it was a lasso. To-night it is this." And he suddenly whipped out a revolver. Meiklejohn pushed his chair back so quickly that it caught the fender and brought down some fire-irons with a crash. "More nerves!" croaked his grim-visaged relative, but the revolver disappeared.
"True, John; a few weeks like this would enable us almost to complete the courses," replied the engineer. "Easy, lads, easy! If you run her up so fast you'll stave in the planks. Stand by with the fender, Teddy!" "Ay, ay, sir!" cried the man, springing up and seizing a stuffed canvas ball, which he swung over the gunwale just in time to prevent the boat's side from grazing the rock.
"Plenty of sticks, Jasper, that it may burn up quickly," said Mrs. Hare, in a pleading voice, as if the sticks were Jasper's and not hers. Mrs. Hare got her fire, and she drew her chair in front, and put her feet on the fender, to catch its warmth. Barbara, listless still, went into the hall, took a woolen shawl from the stand there, threw it over her shoulders, and went out.
"There is nothing more to be done here, I think, unless" he stared earnestly and long at the dead ashes in the grate. "The fire burns and it destroys. But by chance there might be let us see!" Deftly, on hands and knees, he began to sort the ashes from the grate into the fender, handling them with the greatest caution. Suddenly, he gave a faint exclamation. "The forceps, Hastings!"
Oh, Toby, darling! do, do take a little of your own good advice, and try to cure yourself of lying in the fender!" "Hoot toots, man, yon's a queer bird!" Bonnie Scotland. I AM an Owl; a very fluffy one, in spite of all that that Bad Boy pulled out! I live in an Ivy Bush.
Six chairs planted with unyielding stiffness against the walls seemed to grow out of the carpet; and the very high fender enclosed a pair of andirons that any body with tolerable eyesight could have seen their faces in. Over the mantel piece were suspended two pictures. One was a likeness of Mr.
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