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He held up the other, and knew that the puff had passed when it came back unsinged. Then he brought Quinn out with him; but it was too late. Caught between flood and fire, he had no chance. When I asked the lieutenant about it, he replied simply: "The man in charge of the hose fell into the cellar. I got him out; that was all." "But how?" I persisted.
"It must have been a great miscarriage indeed," said the Duke, "since your Majesty looks so serious on it. "Not the mischief they were designed for, perhaps," said the King gravely; "you see, my lord, we are all alive, and unsinged."
"Here are fifteen hundred eight and fifty, sahib all Rangars true believers all true men all pledged to see thee unsinged through the flames of hell! Do them the honor of a quick inspection, sahib!" "Certainly!" smiled Cunningham. "I have told them, sahib, that their homes, their women, their possessions, and their honor are all guaranteed them. Also pay. They make no other terms."
Upon this subject Toland observes that he has seen the people of Ireland running and leaping through the St. John's fire proud of passing through it unsinged. Although ignorant of the origin of this ceremony, they nevertheless regarded it as some kind of a lustration by means of which they were to be specially blessed. To every domestic hearth was carried the seed of Bealtine, or St.
The flames took a human form, and gave back Sophia to the assembly. Such is the gift of substitution, which follows penetration, and such is the substance of the memoirs of M. Bataille, ship's doctor, who, in the year 1880, undertook to exploit Freemasonry and has come forth unsinged from Diabolism.
There was a wordless moment, then the sound of a distant whistle, of nearer shouts of "T-r-a-i-n." The dark mustache, the unsinged side, was sweeping very, very near the soft curve of those parted lips. "What ransom will you pay?" he murmured. "I've not yet felt these arms about my neck. I've kissed you, heaven be praised, but, Miriam, have you ever kissed me?" "T-r-a-i-n! Train, train!
"I ask you to take them now," Kimberley went on, "before I say another word." He rose, walked to the fire, and dropped the papers on the smouldering coal. The earl seized the papers and rescued them, soiled but unsinged. "Kimberley," he said, "I dare not lay myself under such an obligation to any man alive." "They are yours, my lord," replied Kimberley. "I shall never touch them again.
"Good-by, Captain, good-by!" said he warmly, yet warily, not knowing at what precise temperature the metal of my heart was fusible. At a mild heat I had been evidently unsinged, and the white glow of his flattery seemed only to harden me.
Sainted love, if, like the ancient children of the Hebrews, like Meshech and Abednego, thou wert called by divine command, whilst yet almost a child, to walk, and to walk alone, through the fiery furnace, wherefore then couldst not thou, like that Meshech and that Abednego, walk unsinged by the dreadful torment, and come forth unharmed?
Chamberlain to pass through, but he came out of it unsinged and triumphant, and was afterwards more popular than ever. I have some hesitation in speaking of Mr. Chamberlain in his private and "at home" character, though in these days I hardly know that I need be very timid or scrupulous.
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