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Sofia uttered a small cry, more of surprise than fright, and hung back, trying to free the arm by which he was trying to guide her to the open door. "It's our only chance," he warned her, coolly. "We're between two fires. Better not delay!" She yielded and tumbled in. Karslake followed and slammed the door.
Long ere the fire had burned itself out, the wicked-looking cayuse following a bridle's length at his heels, he was back; waiting impatiently for the flame to die. No frontiersman, in a land where prairie fires spread as the breath of scandal, ever leaves fire alive when out of his sight; and to this instinct the Indian was true.
It gives me joy to know that Christians are becoming merciful, so merciful that the fires of hell are burning low flickering, choked with ashes, destined in a few years to die out forever. For centuries Christendom was a madhouse. Popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, monks and heretics were all insane. Only a few four or five in a century were sound in heart and brain.
Whereupon he put hand to head as one who tries to remember. "Stay; did you not say there was a barrier, Jack? when we were wrestling with death in the Indian fires? Or did I dream it?" "You did not dream it. But you were telling me what she said." "Oh, yes; 'twas little enough. She cut me off at the first word as if my speaking were a mortal sin.
When I came back to the deck two more fires were burning. The shore which was a low bluff was illuminated for some hundreds of yards. There was a gang of a hundred or more dancing savages about the fires. I was frightened; those savages were not "gentled" enough to suit me. The captain and Pedro had evidently come to a decision.
At night four of us were persuaded to go eel-catching in a crocodile-pool that we had discovered a little further on. We made a large fire to entice the eels, and, as we were none of us great lovers of angling, we made a splendid bonfire, as there was plenty of dry wood to be had. There was something particularly attractive in these large fires on those quiet, dark nights of the wilderness.
At night it was cold enough for fires. In the middle of the day it was hot. The wind never blew, and every morning we had a four for tennis and every afternoon we rode in the woods. "He was one of those rarely gifted men who find their chiefest pleasure not in looking backward or forward, but in what is going on at the moment.
The snow is on the ground, and still my people wait; They ask but their just dues, ere yet it be too late; For we are poor, our huts are cold, we starve, we die, While you are rich, your fires are warm, your harvests lie High heaped above the hunting grounds, our fathers' graves, We sold you long ago. Alas! our famished braves Have sold e'en their own graves!
Lovell was perdition and its scorching fires to a man with a taint of cowardice in him. Whatever he was, Edward's vanity would not permit him to acknowledge himself that. Still, he did not call on his heart to play inspiriting music. His ideas turned to subterfuge. His aim was to keep the good opinion of Mrs.
Out on the flat beyond the racecourse our men were engaged in blowing up and burning some little farms and kraals which sheltered the Boer scouts. As I look towards the Bulwan I see the yellow blaze of their fires. Sunday, November 12, 1899. Amid all the estimable qualities of the Boer race there is none more laudable than their respect for the Sabbath day. It has been a calm and sunny day.
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