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He made her look in his eyes and tell him all the sorrowful truth. Then at last he grew pitiful again and tried brokenly to comfort her, to make her feel that something would intervene to help them, but in his heart he knew that his cause was lost, and his hopes burned within him, a heap of smoldering coals dying in their own ashes.
You must picture to yourself the quiet, dim-lighted room of a convalescent; outside, the dreary, bleak days of winter in a sparsely settled, distant country parish; inside, a slow, smoldering log-fire, a curtained bed, the infant sleeping well enough, the mother wakeful, restless, thought-driven, as a mother must be, unfortunately, nowadays, particularly in that parish, where cotton worms and overflows have acquired such a monopoly of one's future.
From the window sill he took a smoldering cigarette and, holding it in his cupped hand so that the glow could not be seen from outside, sucked in, and after a moment cautiously blew the smoke out into the night air. Bassett watched him in silence for a moment and then he said: "They slipped something over on you, didn't they?" "What can you expect?" was Campbell's reply.
The clanging of the gongs and the yells of the sirens grow fainter and fainter, and finally, through the clouds of sparks and smoke the whole weird cavalcade was seen to disappear into a side-street. Little bits of smoldering wood and pieces of red-hot coal remained lying on the street and burned with quivering, quick little flames.
If you should Oh, if you should you will wish you had never been born." The fierceness of her passion beat upon him like sudden summer hail. He laughed slowly, well pleased. A lazy smoldering admiration shone in his half shuttered eyes. "So you're going to take it out of me, are you?" A creature of moods, there came over her now a swift change.
When he had completed this shelter to his satisfaction he sat down again on the rock beside his smoldering fire and pulled out his pipe. "Thanks be!" said the doctor to himself fervently. "Go on, old boy, hit her up." A pipe and then another the Indian smoked, then, taking his gun, blanket and pack, he crawled into his brush wigwam out of sight.
The old man's words are inaudible in the noise of the train, but for a long time he goes on muttering, sighing and clearing his throat.... The cold air in the railway van grows thicker and more stifling The pungent odor of fresh dung and smoldering candle makes it so repulsive and acrid that it irritates Yasha's throat and chest as he falls asleep.
There is no feast like the feast in the open the feast in the flaring light of a night fire the feast of your own kill, with the tang of the wild and the tang of the smoke in it! It all came back there by the smoldering fires the wonder and the beauty and the awe of being alive. We had eaten hugely a giant feast. There had been no formalities about that meal.
Two days after were over also, and in the morning most of the guests were going away. From the basket by the hearth he threw a fresh log on the smoldering fire, lifted it with his foot farther back on the hot ashes, drew the old-fashioned arm-chair closer to the fender, and, turning down the light from the lamp on the pie-crust table near the mantel, sat down and lighted a fresh cigar.
I tried to tell him, in French, how grateful American women are for any little attention from foreigners who have centuries of politeness behind them. Ah me! I sometimes long for one of the old-fashioned talks before your smoldering logs! What we talk about here, Heaven only knows. I sometimes tell Rodney at night it is usually morning that I feel like an extinct piece of fireworks.
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