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I recognized what she was playing. I wondered if the melody had the same associations for her that it had for me. The music stopped. I heard the drawing-room door open. She came into the study. 'I didn't know there was anyone here, she said. 'I'm frozen. The drawing-room fire's out. 'Come and sit down, I said. 'You don't mind the smoke?
The fire's at the fourth bend above us and the pines on the ridge we passed five minutes ago ought to be blazin' by this time. Ah me, boy, this isn't the fust time I've run a race with a fire of the devil's own kindlin', alone and in company, both. And my ears have measured the roar and the cracklin' ontil I can tell to a rod, eenamost, how fur the red line be behind me."
The credits opened for them amounted, during the course of their stay abroad, to some L260. Miss Meteyard's A Group of Englishmen, p. 99. After quoting the two concluding lines of the poem, "Fire's" rebuke of her inconstant sisters, in the words "I alone am faithful, I Cling to him everlastingly," Nobody else, barring the author, knew at first whose good name was at stake.
This person had a man's face and a griffin's body, and big feathery wings, and a snake's tail, and a cock's comb and neck feathers. "Whatever are you?" said Edmund. "I'm a poor starving cockatrice," answered the pale person in a very faint voice, "and I shall die oh, I know I shall! My fire's gone out! I can't think how it happened; I must have been asleep.
It was dark when at last Miss Maitland, under the escort of Smith, started homeward toward Deerfield Street. And even then, not so directly homeward lay their course as the hour might have warranted. By an impulse which neither resisted, their footsteps turned southeastward toward the place where they had first viewed the land of the fire's reaping.
"Well, I don't envy him his job." "Hush," said Margaret. "Here come the folks." In came Mrs. Mayfield and her nephew, with Jim, the preacher, following them. Margaret began industriously to dust a rocking chair. She bade them come in, if it were not too warm, "Mammy has been ironing but the fire's dyin' down. And I do hope she irons yo' clothes to suit you, Miz Mayfield," she added.
"We were jammed up anyhow, but the fellow who gave it me won't try the trick on any one else. Have you any water?" Dudley shook his head. "Sorry," he replied. "Seems a scarcity of it," continued Rupert. "All the men's water-bottles are bone-dry, and it's hot work tackling a kraal fire. The niggers, too, are clamouring for water." "The fire's burning itself out, I fancy," remarked Dudley.
The bush fence ended here in a corner, where it was met by a new wire fence running up from the creek. It was a blind gully full of tall dead grass, and, glancing up, Mary saw the flames coming down fast. She ran back. "Come on!" she cried, "come on! The fire's the other side of the rocks!" Back at the station, Wall walked up and down till he cooled. He went inside and sat down, but it was no use.
Their nerves shook to the creeping, crackling sounds that came from the wainscot, infinitely minute. A tongue of fire shot hissing from the coal. It seemed to them a violent and terrifying thing. The breath of the house passed over them in thick smells of earth and must, as the fire's heat sucked at its damp. The church clock struck the half hour.
"I confess myself that I don't know just how we did it, Harry, but it's quite certain that the enemy will never cross it. The fire's too strong. Besides, they'd have our men to face." Harry looked about, and saw several thousand men drawn up to dispute the passage, but the Northern troops recognizing its impossibility at that time, made no attempt.
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