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Father had scraped the needles of the pines together in such a way that a bare rim of earth was left all around the fire, so that it could not spread along the ground; and presently the coffee-pot was over the fire and bacon was sizzling in the frying-pan.

The paymaster maintained a demeanor of what may be termed hopeful apprehension; this baiting, this impugning of honesty must needs turn the trick! No Morrison would stand for it! Mac Tavish found the laird's suppression of all comment promisingly bodeful. The fuse must be sizzling. There would be an explosion!

His gun leaped from belt to hand, and had twice spoken from the hip before one could quite grasp what had happened. Seemingly without bothering to take aim, his deadly left hand had stricken into lifeless heaps two coolies who had come running and shooting from the nearby guard-box. As Carse stood looking down at their bodies he was startled by another sizzling spit.

They were sizzling and flung out a splendid smell. He came back without his hat and coat. He stood by the bedroom door and slowly looked round the room, taking everything in. "I thought you'd have gone," he said; "I warned you." She looked up at him, laughing: "I haven't," she said. "Whatever happens afterwards, Martin, we may as well have one meal together. I'm very hungry.

The ninth game went to forty-love before Holt succeeded in handling one of the sizzling serves that Amy put across. Then he returned to the back of the court and Amy banged the ball into the net. A double fault brought the score to 40-30, but on the next serve Amy again skimmed one over that Holt failed with and the games were 5-4. "I hope he gets this," murmured Clint.

There was still plenty of work left for Monday: the soup, the peas with bacon, the roast goose. The inner room was lit by three fires. Butter was sizzling in the pans and emitting a sharp odor of burnt flour. Mother Coupeau and Gervaise, with white aprons tied on, were bustling all around, cleaning parsley, dashing for salt and pepper, turning the meat.

Deeper and deeper into the sizzling pot stared the faded blue eyes of the hag, the dark wide-spread ones of the girl following every movement of Ma Moll's hand. "Aye, there air a cross for ye, brat, to carry on yer back " "Air there no Christ a bearin' one for Daddy?" Suddenly the door burst open, and the raging wind flickered out the candle.

The man went to the sideboard, poured out two pegs and sent the soda-water sizzling into the long glasses. "Here's yours and here's mine," he said; "good luck!" He drank the whisky off, after he had seen the colonel drink his, and wiped his mouth with a gaudy handkerchief. "I'm taking it for granted," said the colonel, "that we've made no mistake and that you were listening at our door.

In groups, talking with crisp voices, cheered by the occurrence of events, the company straggled across the great stretch of mud puddles towards the mess shack. Yvonne tossed the omelette in the air. It landed sizzling in the pan again, and she came forward into the light, holding the frying pan before her.

They argued along until after midnight, but Jim carried his point; and two weeks later Thorn was in Denver, saying good-by to Kate, and listening to her whisper, "But it won't be for long, as you'll soon be able to leave business and come back East," and to Castle yelling from the rear platform to "Push the Infant and get her sizzling."