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"Come, my dear," said Miss Harper from half-way up the walk, but Charlotte called Miss Harper. "You'd better go in, Camille," insisted the aunt as she passed us, but Charlotte had just asked for our candle to relight her own, and she said to Miss Harper, "Let them stay, won't you?" and then to Ferry, "They might as well, mightn't they?
Then raising his voice, he cried: "Jubal, relight your lamp; I have come far to see you. You know me, Jubal. Monsieur le chef?" "Pardonnez moi," croaked the hag, as she struck the light. Then came in quavering tones: "Entrez." What a brushing of soft wings and gleaming of eyes! The hut was literally filled with living creatures.
This room was at the back of the house, and Lumley deliberately crossed the lawn and looked in at the window." Lovell paused for a moment or two to relight his pipe. "Remember," he continued, "that I have to put this story together, partly from facts which came to my knowledge afterwards, and partly from reasonable deductions.
Sometimes in the night Charles woke up with a start, thinking he was being called to a patient. "I'm coming," he stammered; and it was the noise of a match Emma had struck to relight the lamp. But her reading fared like her piece of embroidery, all of which, only just begun, filled her cupboard; she took it up, left it, passed on to other books.
Three times he saw it. And he knew that the mysterious, bearded giant was an old man. The fourth time the lightning came, the figure was gone. And in that flare it was the bowed figure of Kedsty he saw hurrying up the gravel path to the door. Quickly Kent covered the window, but he did not relight the lamp. Before Kedsty could have reached the foot of the stair, he had unlocked the door.
The stars were growing wan, as if sulkily retiring before the approach of an overwhelming resplendence. Mavis's cigarette went out, but she did not bother to relight it; she was wondering how she was to obtain the happiness for which her heart ached: the problem was still complicated by the fact of her being ignorant in which direction lay the promised land.
A cry from Antiochus, a curse from the German, startled him out of his stupor. He stared about. It was pitch dark. "The gods blast it!" Antiochus was bawling. "The lantern has jolted out!" A finger-guessing game. To relight it under existing circumstances, in an age when friction matches were unknown, was practically impossible.
Her eyes alternately opened upon but shut against the light, and, finally, the exertions of the old man were rewarded as the golden gleam of expression began to relight and reillumine those features which seemed never to be without it. She recovered her consciousness, started up, made an effort to rise, but, reeling with inability, sunk down again into the paternal grasp of the old man. "Mr.
'It will be time enough then to decide what is to be done, thought he. He then proceeded to relight the fire, and drawing a sofa near, he wrapped himself in a railway-rug, and lay down to sleep. For a long time he could not compose himself to slumber: he thought of Nina and her wiles ay, they were wiles; he saw them plainly enough.
Octavius, without stopping to relight the lamp, hurried up to his room in the ell, fearful lest he be recalled a fifth time a test of his powers of mental endurance to which he dared not submit in his present perturbed state. Mrs.
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