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Noodle brandished till the whole garden swarmed with their kind. One fastened himself upon every rose, a gulf opposing itself to a torrent. All sight of the conflagration disappeared; but within there went a roaring sound, and the bodies of the Fire-eaters crackled, growing large and luminous the while. 'Do your will quickly and begone! cried the Fire-eaters.
"Oh, they're all fire-eaters on the surface," Bartlett's tone was disdainful. "But you may all judge for yourselves in a moment. For, if I'm not mistaken, he's coming up the road to meet us." "By jove, he sits his horse like a king," said Bartlett's companion, admiringly. "Who are those chaps with him? Looks like a sort of reception committee."
Then with two deaths threatening to devour him, he brandished the ring, calling upon the Fire-eaters for their aid. They laughed as they came. 'Here is food for you! he cried. 'Multiply your appetites about me, or I shall be consumed in these flames! 'Brandish again! cried they the same seven whom he had fed. 'We are not enough; this fire is not quenchable.
A set of fire-eaters appear to control the New York section, of it, and in the judgment of many sober-minded Americans, with some of whom I have myself spoken, the late war was wholly due to their ceaseless, incessant clamour, and that, given a few months' patience, the Cuban people might have by plebiscite been able to settle their own destiny.
Now, if she could eat fire we might find a place for her. Fire-eaters are very popular. I suppose she couldn't learn to eat fire, Bony?" The Living Skeleton shook his head gloomily over his poor meal. "I'm afraid she couldn't," he said. "Jane ain't got any gifts." The meal was finished, and the utensils were washed and restored to the caravan cupboard, a zinc-lined packing case.
Albeen was one of those fire-eaters who would play into his hand by his reckless courage. Better have patience and watch for his chance against the one-armed gunman. "I ain't aimin' to ride you any, Albeen," he said sulkily. "Lay off'n me, then," advised the other curtly. Roush grumbled something inaudible. It might have been a promise. It might have been a protest.
By morning Fort Gunnybags, as headquarters was henceforth called, had come into existence. The fire-eaters arrived that night, but they were not five hundred strong, as excited rumor had it.
The city had become safe. But this peaceful outcome did not suit the aristocratic wing of the Law and Order party in the least. The haughty, supremely individualistic, bold, forceful, often charming coterie of fire-eaters had, in their opinion, been insulted, and they wanted reprisal, punishment, blood.
He is rather tall; is genteelly fashioned, has good features, wears an elegantly-trimmed pair of whiskers, has pompous, odorous, Pall Mall appearance, is grandiose and special, looks like a nineteenth century Numa Pompilius, would have made a spicey Pontifex Maximus, ought to have lived in Persia, where he might have worn velvet slippers and been fanned with peacock feathers, would have been a rare general director of either fire-eaters or fire worshippers; is inclined to run when he walks alone, and to be stately, slow, regal, and precise when, like Fadladeen, he is in charge of Lalla Rookh.
My friends here all regard now the 'Union' as an enemy and encouraging by its neutrality the fire-eaters not to submit the constitution. Very well, the facts are so clear that I can get along without the 'Union, but he had no right to suppress Dr. Tebbs's letter. I shall in due time expose that transaction." Extract from a letter of Robert J. Walker to James Buchanan, dated October, 1857.
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