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Kenwardine excused himself to his hostess, and after promising to return before long went away with the man. "Who is Don Martin, and does he own the coaling wharf?" Clare asked. "No," said the Spaniard. "What makes you imagine so?" "There was some coal-dust on his messenger." The Spaniard laughed.
On my objecting to this retreat, he took us into another room with a dinner-table for thirty, and in the grate a scorched leaf of a copy-book under a bushel of coal-dust. Having looked at this extinct conflagration and shaken his head, he took my order; which, proving to be merely, "Some tea for the lady," sent him out of the room in a very low state of mind.
The diagnosis and the treatment were rapidly settled; Saniel proposed, Balzajette approved. The question of the movable stove was decided in two words: for the night a grate would be placed in the chimney; a fire of coal covered with damp coal-dust would keep the fire until morning. "Let us return," Balzajette said, who took the initiative and decided on all material things.
Stone- paved roads, stone curbs, stone pathways except here and there, where coal-dust and clay formed a hard and solid footway, occasionally hollowed out by exceptional wear into puddles which looked like gigantic inkstands.
His red head was covered now with a black cloth cap, making him look more like a stoker than a seaman. His ratlike visage was covered with a coppery stubble, but its colour was not apparent at first glance, for his face was smeared with coal-dust and grease. "I'm nigh dead for a drink," he whined. "Let me take your luggage aboard, sir just a peseta, sir.
There are regular stables for them cut out of the coal at the bottom of the mine, and they seem to like the life, for they grow sleek and fat. In Wallford mine, in which little Dick worked, there were employed 250 grown men, 75 lads, and 40 young boys. These at once get as black as coal-dust can make them.
Among the former were those fascinating ones, usually low of ceiling and dark with coal-dust, where grimy men in leather aprons tried shoes on horses; and those horrifying places past which she always drove with closed eyes places where, scraped white and head downward, hung little pigs, pitiful husks of what they once had been, flanked on either hand by long-necked turkeys with poor glazed eyes; and once she had seen a wonderful shop in which men were sawing out flat pieces of stone, and writing words on them with chisels.
"He couldn't have known. It must have been instinctive." "Instincts are like that," I said. "I don't suppose an animal knows anything about death, or even thinks of it, yet it behaves from the very first as if it knew. It's odd." A door opened at the far end of the hall, and Symington-Tearle emerged. There was a patch of coal-dust on his forehead.
He would have sheltered us if he could; but a cloud of coal-dust and the stamping and screaming of a hundred and fifty Chinamen made hospitality impracticable; so I made a little bed for my child on deck, and prepared to pass the night with him under a canopy of stars.
To watch the poor creature, begrimed with coal-dust, wriggling up a long, steep hill, with a load four times his own weight, griping with his little sheep-footed hoofs into the black, slimy pavement of the road, while his tall, sooty-faced and harsh-voiced master, perhaps sitting on the top or on a shaft, is punching and beating him; to see this is enough to stir up the old adam in the meekest Christian to emotions of pugilistic indignation.
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