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He darted to the fender, and one of them he espied there instantly white? A rather flushed white, certainly. For the other he had to peer down. There it lay, not very distinct on the hearth's black-leading. He turned away. He blamed himself for not dismissing from his mind the hussy he had dismissed from his room. Oh for an ounce of civet and a few poppies!
Now, the humorous eyes riffled with a quiet amusement. "I didn't say thet I come without business, Alexander. Mebby I hain't stated hit yit." "Then ye'd better state hit. Ye don't seem ter be in no tormentin' haste." O'Keefe thought that "tormentin' haste" in his position would be fatal and yet the streak of whimsey that ran through him brought a paradoxical answer. "My hearth's cold over thar.
"No, no, wife; no, it'll never do to lose the money! let a bygone be a bygone, and don't disturb the old woman in her grave. As to the shawl, if it's like to be a tell-tale, in my mind, this hearth's the safest place for it." So he flung it on the fire; there was a shrivelling, smouldering, guilty sort of blaze, and the shawl was burnt.
"No, no, wife; no, it'll never do to lose the money! let a bygone be a bygone, and don't disturb the old woman in her grave. As to the shawl, if it's like to be a tell-tale, in my mind, this hearth's the safest place for it." So he flung it on the fire; there was a shrivelling, smouldering, guilty sort of blaze, and the shawl was burnt.
HEDWIG. Touch not my dress, nor yet advance one step. Stand off, I say, if you would have me hear you. MONK. Oh, by this hearth's bright, hospitable blaze, By your dear children's heads, which I embrace HEDWIG. Stand back, I say! What is your purpose, man? Back from my boys! You are no monk, no, no. Beneath that robe content and peace should dwell, But neither lives within that face of thine.
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