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"Jefferson Abel Jefferson to command," answered the Yankee, relighting the large clay pipe which he had just filled, and stuffing down the glowing tobacco with the end of his little finger as slowly and deliberately as though that member were a salamander. "What's yourn!" "Edward Sinton. Now, Mr Jefferson, in what position do you intend to sit?" "Jest as I'm settin' now."
It was no longer necessary for them to keep watch by day and night over a fire which they had now the means of relighting. Tartlet therefore abandoned, not without regret, a task which suited him so well.
There I met an old Anglo-Indian friend, and he dragged me down to the Riviera for a month. But there is no place like home. I've been in town only a couple of hours crossed this morning. And to-morrow I'm off to Priory Court." "So soon?" "Yes; I can't endure your fogs." There was an awkward pause. Nevill struck a match and put it to his cigar, though it did not need relighting.
No doubt the stroke with the poisoned fangs, which he used to punish traitors, was the result of reading that memoir." "This Croshar or whatever his name is, seems to be a 'strordinary feller," observed Grady, relighting his cigar. "He is," agreed M. Pigot, quietly; "a most extraordinary man.
If no one happened to be looking I blew it out for the pleasure of relighting it; for, like other children I loved to play with fire and the candles and the open hearth gave me ample opportunities. The bellows and I were intimate and constant playmates.
"And my men conceivably may have voted in the minority, against any such tomfoolery; yet, when the vote is given, it will be a punishable offence for them, and me, to work overtime? You actually mean that; how do you propose to punish us?" "Well," said Wharton, relighting his cigarette, "that is a much debated point. Personally, I am in favour of imprisonment rather than fine."
The darkened lamp he held between his teeth. If the mysterious will fired again, the mysterious will would almost to a certainty fire harmlessly over his head. At last his hands touched the portière. He hesitated, listened, and put one hand under the portière. Then, relighting the lamp, he sprang up with a yell on the other side of the portière, and clutched for the unseen intelligence.
"To turn the subject," said Mivers, relighting the cigar which he had laid aside while delivering himself of his amiable opinions, "I think you would do well, while in town, to call on your old friend Travers, and be introduced to Cecilia. If you think as favourably of her as I do, why not ask father and daughter to pay you a visit at Exmundham?
He started up with a smothered exclamation as the light went out suddenly and something struck him on the head. The others sprang to their feet. Then Meagle laughed. "It's the candle," he exclaimed. "I didn't stick it enough." Barnes struck a match and relighting the candle stuck it on the mantelpiece, and sitting down took up his cards again. "What was I going to say?" said Meagle.
Royce relaxed his frown, took his cigar from his mouth, looked at it, and put it back between his teeth without relighting it. Claude was watching him with surprise. "There's no question about Enid, Mr. Royce. I didn't come to ask you about her," he exclaimed. "I came to ask if you'd be willing to have me for a son-in-law.
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