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Updated: May 11, 2025
What women will, whose eyes are slow, attentive, still, as this Margaret's, usually comes to pass. The red fire-glow suited her; another glow, warming her floating fancy, mingled with it, giving her quiet purpose the trait of heroism. The old spirit of the dead chivalry, of succor to the weak, life-long self-denial, did it need the sand waste of Palestine or a tournament to call it into life?
Slowly, with a look of horror in his eyes, Jean drew back from him. Philip, with bowed head, saw nothing of the struggle in the half-breed's face. When Jean spoke it was in a strange voice and low. "M'sieur!" Philip looked up. In the fire-glow Jean was reaching out his hand to him. In the faces of the two men was a new light, the birth of a new brotherhood. Their hands clasped.
Kâsyapa in the night seeing the fire-glow, sighed: "Ah! alas! what misery! this most distinguished man is also burnt up by the fiery Nâga." Then Kâsyapa and his followers at morning light came one and all to look.
There was absolute silence, save for the ripple of waves upon the shore, each busy with his own thoughts, until presently Jamie asked: "Did you ever see a ghost, Doctor?" "A ghost? No, lad, and I fancy no one else ever saw one except in imagination. What made you think of ghosts?" "'Tis so still and dark out there," said Jamie, pointing toward the darkness beyond the fire-glow.
She stood, now, leaning her head on the window, waiting. Was she keeping, like the fire-glow, a still, warm welcome for somebody? It was a very homely work she had been about, you will think.
It looked as if it never could be warm inside, by sunshine or by fire-glow, and cared not, although it was the only house for miles, whether it were peopled or stood empty. But this cold, hard-looking place just now was the home of some hot and passionate hearts. The people were poor; and how they made their living would have been a mystery to their neighbors, if there had been any.
The girl moved aside; and on tiptoe Phyllis passed in. She walked to where, between the lamp-glow and the fire-glow, she was lighted up. White satin her first low-cut dress the flush of her first supper party a gardenia at her breast, another in her fingers! Oh! what a pity he was asleep! How red he looked! How funnily old men breathed! And mysteriously, as a child might, she whispered: "Guardy!"
One was that of a woman in warm middle life, sitting in a big chair, her face full of both brightness and peace; at her feet knelt a young girl, her arm upon her mother's knees, her face uplifted. The two faces were smiling into each other. Somebody it looked to be a tall young man against the fire-glow came and abruptly closed the door from within, and the picture was gone.
Still it was surely better to confide in him to the extent I had than permit him to rage about blindly, and in open hostility to Cassion. I seated myself just within the tent, my eyes on the scene as revealed in the fire-glow, and reflected again over the details of my hastily born plan.
"Then forgive me, but I'm puzzled," said he, laying light but determined hold upon the veil. "I can't imagine at all who would honour me " He gently lifted the veil. The others saw his expression change as the drawn folds revealed a face whose dark-eyed beauty was vividly enhanced by the fire-glow upon cheeks which the November frost had stung into a wonder colour.
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