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"He's broken his rope; the coal's adrift!" he cried. Dick saw the tug's lights vanish, which meant that she had turned with her stern towards the launch; and then two or three twinkling specks some distance off. "He'd tow the first craft with a double rope, a bridle from his quarters," he said.
There was Pattes-du-Tigre, a small, wiry, supple-limbed fire-eater, with a skin like a coal and eyes that sparkled like the live coal's flame; a veteran of the Joyeux; who could discipline his roughs as a sheepdog his lambs, and who had one curt martial law for his detachment; brief as Draco's, and trimmed to suit either an attack on the enemy or the chastisement of a mutineer, lying in one single word "Fire."
A small man, with gimlet-like black eyes and a heavy moustache, at which he had been tugging nervously during Peter Dale's remarks, plunged into the discussion. His name was Abraham Weavel and he came from Sheffield. "Coal's all very well," he declared, "but I speak for the ironfounders.
"The Yankees skedaddle as though in haste But this thirty-two pounder howitzer imp It makes them halt and it makes them limp, This railroad gun on a flat car placed." "Hurry up there! Hurry up! Hurry! Steam's up! Coal's precious! Can't stay here burning diamonds like this all day!" "Come on!" said the artilleryman. "I can sit down and dig. We've got to clear that thing away in a hurry."
This peat about the Toft was coal's young relative, and burned slowly into a beautiful creamy ash, giving out a glow of warmth that was wanted there when the wind blew from the northern sea.
His voice was hollow and strained, and by contrast Brown's sounded full and hearty. "We're getting ahead all the same. Where are you for?" "Sar Leone, after we call at Montgomery's." "Then you can fill your bunkers, and our coal's getting short. Can you sell us some?" The other asked how much Brown wanted and how much he would pay.
The sky above, though shadowed by night, was blue and clear, showing everything that rose against it; but there was no smoke from the cottage to leave a trail there. "That's wisdom," thought Prescott. "Coal's too precious a thing now in Richmond to be wasted. It would be cheaper to burn Confederate money."
He knew their cautious reserve; they were obstinate and slow to move, and if he tried to hurry them might take alarm. By and by one knocked out his pipe. "How are you getting forrad with t' peat-cutting?" he asked. "We have cut enough to last for three or four months." "You'll need it aw. Coal's a terrible price," another remarked. "It will be dearer soon," said Peter.
Elijah says we owe 'em a lot else, too, but I think that's enough in all conscience. Elijah says too it costs a third more to live than it did ten years ago an' he knows that for a fact, an' you an' I know that, too, Mrs. Lathrop. Coal's gone up an' everythin' else.
An' pears like we couldn't never git nothin' ahead on account of my roomatiz. Where de coal's to come from dis ere winter I don't know, cep de good Lord sends it down out of the sky; and I reckon stone-coal don't never come dat dar road." After some more talk, Mr. Blake went in to see Peter Sitles, the blind broom-maker. "I hyeard yer stick, preacher Blake," said Sitles.
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