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"We dressed ourselves in strange costumes to personate spirits or fiends, and Bysshe would take a fire-stove and fill it with some inflammable liquid, and carry it flaming into the kitchen and to the back door." Shelley often took his sisters for long country rambles over hedge and fence, carrying them when the difficulties of the ground or their fatigue required it.
A paper fire-stove ornament in some mysterious way bestows upon the room an air of chastity. Above the mantelpiece is a fly-blown mirror, between the once gilt frame and glass of which can be inserted invitation cards; indeed, one or two so remain, proving that the tenants even of "bed-sitting-rooms" are not excluded from social delights.
Tytler's ascent, however, was almost a failure, by his employing the dangerous and unmanageable Montgolfier principle. After several ineffectual attempts, Tytler, finding that he could not carry up his fire-stove with him, determined, in the maddening desperation of disappointment, to go without this his sole sustaining power.
Hasn't it been a cat and dog existence, Willie?" "It's been just hell upon earth," murmured the O'Kelly, with his eyes fixed gloomily upon the fire-stove ornament. Deadly in earnest though they both were, I could not repress a laugh, their excellent intention was so obvious. The Signora burst into tears. "He doesn't believe us," she wailed.
Tillotson, sticking his hands in his pockets, and warming himself comfortably at a fire-stove ornament trimmed with red paper roses "if I can, you know." "It is a great favor," said Glover. Mr. Tillotson, looking very despondent, said, of course, that would please him more. "I wouldn't ask anybody but you to do it," said the wily Glover.
The room was no longer shabby, and Fraser was conscious of a strange exaltation. "I understood that you had given notice in the City," he said, slowly; "but I'm very glad that you didn't." Miss Tyrell shook her head, and stooping down adjusted the fire-stove ornament. "Didn't you intend to go?" repeated the tactful seaman.
And he had worked so long earning money that he had grown hard and cold like the money itself, and was trying to think of something affectionate to say to her. So for a while they sat, one each side of the paper "fire-stove ornament," both wondering why they had shed such scalding tears on that day they had kissed each other good-bye; then said "good-bye" again, and were glad.
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