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The moth had not spoiled the letter the laborious letter; he was so glad of that! He saw no analogies, he received not even a subtle warning, as he sealed and addressed the envelope and affixed the postage-stamp. Then he snuffed out the candle with great satisfaction. The next morning the missive was posted, and all Nehemiah Yerby's plans took a new lease of life.

She could not do anything ungracefully, but that did not prevent her improving upon nature a bit, when she reached forth and deftly snuffed the red wick from the midst of the yellow flame. Again she rested head on hand, this time regarding the man thoughtfully, and any man is pleased when thus regarded by a pretty woman. She was in little haste to begin.

"Did you look in here?" asked a soldier, approaching the alcove. "Yes, sir; they ain't in there." She snuffed the candle out suddenly with her fingers. "Oh, oh! my light done gone out! Mind! Let me go in front and show you the way," she said; and, pressing before, she once more led them along the passage. "Mind yo' steps; ken you see?" she asked.

"But he may let things out, you know," said Belch. "Yes, but is not our word as good as his," was the assuring reply. "Perhaps, perhaps," said General Belch, dolefully. But Belch and Condor were forgotten by the representative they had sent to Congress when he once snuffed the air of Washington.

Hutchinson snuffed the smoky candle and reflectively rubbed the soot from the wick between thumb and forefinger. "By Jove, I wish we could both go out!" he abruptly exclaimed. "That would settle it all." Pentfield looked at him darkly. "If it weren't for your cursed obstinacy, it'd be settled anyway. All you have to do is get up and go. I'll look after things, and next year I can go out."

"Are you still there, Tom? Come in, man! The accusing angel has gone." Tom appeared, and the two went back to the great table in the centre of the room. Rand unlocked the drawer and took out the papers in the perusal of which they had been interrupted. Mocket snuffed the candles and tossed another log of hickory upon the fire.

The deer were dumb animals for him, whose business had hitherto been to bleed not milk them. There were deer feeding in the glades of Thornyhold; but Belvisee was nursing her wound under the oak by the pool, and Mellifont was beside her. The deer snuffed an enemy in the friend of their friend; they gave him a lead astray, which unconsciously he took.

"In any case," continued she, "if celebrated counsel come down from Paris, there is a prospect of a very interesting session in the Court of Assize; but the matter will be snuffed out between the Tribunal and the Court of Appeal.

My turn came again, and she took up her tale once more. 'I think when I left off I was saying that Pepper's happiness was too good to last. And so it was. For his mistress was ill, and, though he snuffed and scratched and whined at the door of her room for ever so long, they wouldn't let him in.

But, at the expiration of the time just named, the dog suddenly came to a stand, and then seating himself on the prairie, he snuffed the air a moment, and began a low and piteous whining. "Ay pup ay. I know the spot I know the spot, and reason there is to remember it well!" said the old man, stopping by the side of his uneasy associate, until those who followed had time to come up.