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Updated: June 20, 2025
The flame crept up between these sticks, and soon began to snap and crackle among the brush in the tree. Caleb stepped back, and watched the flame a moment as it flashed up higher and higher, and then clapped his hands, jumped up on a log, and shouted out, "Raymond, it's a-burning, its a-burning."
"Hello, old man! We've got greenbacks to burn, and we're a-burning 'em," he cried cheerily as he paused to greet his friend, and at the same time dash the streaming perspiration from his face with a grimy hand. "What's the news?" "The news is that you are a trump!" exclaimed White, "and that in spite of all you are doing for us we want you to grant us still another favour."
And now, with pointed moustache, scented with vetiver, the Devil, prowling, runs about. Wherever mankind swarms, without rest, summer and winter, Hell's a-burning, burning, burning. From alcove to hall, and on the railways, the Devil, prowling, runs about. He is Mr. Seen-at-Night, who saunters with staring eyes. Hell's a-burning, burning, burning.
Chuckling in clear staccato, the Devil prowling, runs about. He watches, advances, retreats like zig-zag lightning; Hell's a-burning, burning, burning. In dive and cell, underground and in the air, the Devil, prowling, runs about. Now he is flower, dragon-fly, woman, black-cat, green snake; Hell's a-burning, burning, burning.
I told him of the firing we had heard off Nonza. "In my belief," said I, "they are Corsicans that have drawn off from the bombardment, though why I cannot divine, unless it be in curiosity to discover why Giraglia was a-burning last night." "If, on the other hand they be Genoese," answered my uncle, shaking his head, "this is a serious matter for us.
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