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When I been settin' here alone, nights, and feelin' out her paces, I get so het up and interested that I don't know the fire's out till Bondsman takes to shiverin' and whinin' and tellin' me he'd like to get some sleep afore mornin'." And Bondsman, now that the music had stopped, stalked to Lorry and eyed him with an expression which said plainly: "It's his weak spot this music.
Then Silvia be wise be wise be wise, Though Painting and Dressing for awhile are Supplies, And may surprise But when the Fire's going out in your Eyes, It twinkles, it twinkles, it twinkles, and dies. And then to hear Love, to hear Love from you, I'd as live hear an Owl cry Wit to woo, Wit to woo, wit to woo. Enter Mopsophil above. Mop. Scar. Who shou'd it be that takes such pains to sue! Mop.
Then the two chiefs got his leave to stretch a rope between their horses and ride hard against the tepee. It was military neither in essence nor to see, but it prevailed. The tepee sank, a huge umbrella wreck along the earth, and there lay Ute Jack across the fire's slight hollow, his knee-cap gone with the howitzer shell.
The fire's out, so you can't tumble in an' be burnt to a coal like the wicked children in Nebuchadnezzar: which is a comfort, so far as it goes.
Her face was toward the camp, and she could not see on the plain behind her a moving shadow bearing down on the fire's glow, visible for miles in that level country. It advanced noiselessly through the swaying bushes, till, entering the limits of the light, it detached itself from the darkness, taking the form of a mounted man followed by a pack animal.
He was off down the carriage drive almost colliding with a soldier, who came up on the run, a bayoneted musket in his hand, his face a blackened mask, streaming with sweat. At the sight of the cart he broke into an angry roar: "What are you standing round for? Do you want to be burnt? Get out. Don't you know the fire's coming? Get out."
At the first feeble blaze Corporal's spirits rose so promptly that he had to be restrained. "Easy there! Corp," cautioned Phelan. "A fire's like a woman, you can't be sure of it too soon. And, dog alive, stop wagging your tail, don't you see it makes a draft?" The fire capriciously would, then it wouldn't.
"It's all over now, and the stars are shining. You'd better go back to bed, Aunt Marcia. The fire's out and it's very chilly!" And as the good lady turned back into her room Leslie whispered to Phyllis, "And she slept through all that and never knew! How can I be thankful enough!" "PHYLLIS! I've got a nibble, Phyllis! I believe I can land him, too.
Mallam had begun muttering hoarse threats again, and at last startled all into preparation for action by firing three times, each shot striking some place on the upper part of the staircase, and once shivering some glass. Then he became quiet again, and it seemed directly after that Bostock said: "The blacks' fire's out, sir, and the stars are beginning to get whitish.
Difficult indeed was it for Mary to order anything without an advance notice, for otherwise she was forced to start her little bark through the Scylla and Charybdis of 'fire island, namely, 'The fire's too low, marm; or 'I've just put on coal, marm.
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