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If I had my way I'd fine every manager whose lamps could be unlocked," he said to himself, but quite audibly. "The fireman may have unlocked it, sir, to re-light his own or someone else's," said Madan, stiffly, put at once on his defence. "Oh! I know you're within your legal right, Mr. Madan," said the inspector, briskly. "I haven't the making of the laws."
My first impulse was to re-light the fire. I hurriedly felt about for the sticks, which I had placed on one side, and carried them to the spot where the fire had been burning. I placed them as before in a semicircle. Finding that I could not strike the light in the open air, I retired into the hut to do so. Whilst thus employed I fancied I heard some creature moving over the ground.
At length he shouted to them to lower away again, and they obeyed, until nearly all the chain was out, and they knew he must be near the water. Now Benita, peeping over the edge, saw that the star of light had vanished. His lamp was out, nor did he appear to attempt to re-light it. They shouted down the well to him, but no answer coming, began to wind up as fast as they were able.
Silence was in the act of taking the matches to re-light the lamp when an audible movement in the room behind made him pause. Smoke leaped down from his knee and moved a few paces across the carpet. Then it stopped and stared fixedly; and the doctor stood up on the rug to watch.
He now paused a moment to re-light his pipe, when a clock, that stood at his back, struck eleven; he started up at the sound, took his hat and his cane, and nodding good night with his head, walked out of the room. The gentleman of the house called a servant to bring the stranger's surtout. "What sort of a night is it, fellow?" said he.
Silence was in the act of taking the matches to re-light the lamp when an audible movement in the room behind him made him pause. Smoke leaped down from his knee and moved forward a few paces across the carpet. Then it stopped and stared fixedly; and the doctor stood up on the rug to watch.
Could n't one be allowed to re-light one's cigar?" At this another voice called out: "Tiens! is that you, Lamoricière? Good morning!" "Good morning, Cavaignac," replied the other. Then a third voice came from the third cell. It was that of Changarnier. "Messieurs les Généraux," cried a fourth, "do not forget that I am one of you."
"I say," said Sails to Pat Doolan, on seeing that worthy shivering while trying to re-light the fire which an avalanche of snow, descending from a precipitous rise above the site of our tent, had suddenly buried, along with the cook's pots and pans, just as he was preparing our morning meal, on the fourth day of the storm "how about that Manilla guernsey o' yourn now, old flick?
"You seem to know Liverpool pretty well," he at length remarked, as the captain paused to re-light his pipe. "Should say so," was the reply. "Guess I know about everything there worth knowing, especially along shipping lines." "There must be some big firms there, eh?" "Big! I should say so. Why, I could name a dozen right offhand, which have ships sailing around the world.
The book, however, was a powerful rival to the charm of the fragrant Havana for every now and again he allowed the cigar to die out and had to re-light it, owing to his fascinated absorption in the volume he held.
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