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They were both silent, and as they listened, footsteps, with a tinkling accompaniment, crackled among the bushes below the canon. Miss Newell turned towards the spring again. "I want one more drink before I go," she said. Arnold followed her. "Let us drink to our return. Let this be our fountain of Trevi." "Oh, no," said Miss Frances.
But just you wait till the ships goes wrecking on the rocks I mean the reefs and the dead men's coming up like corks hundreds and ninety and dozens of them; my jove! yes, then you'll hear me singing." The darkness deepened, and the voice of the sea began to moan through the back of the cave, the gorse crackled no longer, and the turf burned in a dull red glow.
The slabs bristled with steel, to be cleaned and decorated anew, while the fire in the centre leaped and crackled with an hundred voices. A stone's-throw away the grim tepee of the dead chief glimmered now out of the shadow, now in, and to the east behind a rocky bluff, through which led a narrow gorge, the river hurried to the north.
Several times the firing became so heavy that the cadet was forced to remain still on the ground while rifle and ray-gun fire crackled over his head. He made it finally, several Marines coming out to help him over the top of the barrier. Gasping for breath, the big cadet asked to see the commanding officer. A grimy, tired-looking officer turned and walked over to the cadet. "Astro!"
The skin and flesh smoked and crackled under the terrible infliction. The agony was such that the poor boy could not refrain from loud shrieks, and he was thrown into the most convulsive contortions. The savages the stern men, the women, the girls, the boys were delighted.
A furnace blast of flame leaped at it, billowing waves of smoke rolled through it; and it crackled and screamed and blazed. The bigger girls had just time to escape; but the children, seven of the smallest, were left on the upper floor. "It's Mr. Dale. Oh, Mr. Dale, 'tis pitiful. You can hear 'em squealin' up theer. Oh, Mr. Dale, sir, what can us do?"
The old time-piece overhead ticked soberly, and the soft face of Redbud's mother looked down from its frame upon them; and the room was full of cheerfulness and light. And still the old clock ticked and ticked, and carried all the world toward eternity; the fire-light crackled, and the voices laughed; the portrait looked serenely down, and smiled. Ralph stretched himself. Mr.
We won't destroy this map" pointing to a neat and graphic piece of coloured draughtsmanship showing infantry and artillery dispositions "until we have to." I got to work, and the fire crackled joyously. "Don't say we shall have to leave these to the Hun, doctor!" I said in shocked tones, picking up four copies of his adored 'Saturday Evening Post. The doctor smiled vaguely, but answered nothing.
Often when the fire crackled merrily, did Monsieur Goulden stop his work, and, gazing on the frost-covered panes, exclaim: "Our poor soldiers! our poor soldiers!" He said this so mournfully that I felt a choking in my throat as I replied: "But, Monsieur Goulden, they ought now to be in Poland in good barracks; for to suppose that human beings could endure a cold like this it is impossible."
It was very comfortable in the living-room of the ranch house, where a fire crackled in the huge stone grate built by his grandfather's Indian artisans. Many of the valuable tapestries imported from Spain had been removed by McTurpin during his tenure, but even bare adobe walls were cheerful in the light of blazing logs, and rugs of native weave accorded well with the simple mission furniture.
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