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The branches. were laid so loosely above each otter, that, looking through them towards the light of the fire-grate, they could easily discover what passed in its vicinity, although a much stronger degree of illumination than it afforded, would not have enabled the persons placed near the bottom of the cave to have descried them in the position which they occupied.
These show an early advance from the simple andiron, and point to the later developments of the fire-grate with the fast bars which were to come. As time went on and change of fuel came about, the forests of England being gradually consumed on the domestic hearth, coal was substituted for the fast-vanishing wood.
On reaching the lieutenant's room, he found him impatiently walking up and down, smoking a cigarette the ends of half a dozen more lying on the fire-grate ornament. "Come come, Smithson! you are late," cried the young officer impatiently. "It will be so vexatious to find nobody stirring. People do go to sleep when they are in bed." "Generally, sir. But you said half-past ten, to be the time."
Now at this hour of which I speak when Austrians marched like a merry flame down Milan streets, and Italians stood like the burnt-out cinders of the fire-grate, Italy's faint wrist was still in the clutch of her grave leech, who counted the beating of her pulse between long pauses, that would have made another think life to be heaving its last, not beginning.
"He had no actual proof of that?" exclaimed Fetherston, interrupting. "I think not. He surmised it from the fact that his master disliked scent, even in his toilet soap. Again, upon the table in the hall Barker's quick eye noticed a small white feather; this he showed me, and it was evidently from a feather boa. In the fire-grate a letter had been burnt.
Glossin paused; the sweat broke upon his brow with the agony of his feelings, while the hard-featured miscreant who sat opposite coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek and squirted the juice into the fire-grate. 'It would be ruin, said Glossin to himself, 'absolute ruin, if the heir should reappear; and then what might be the consequence of conniving with these men?
The branches were laid so loosely above each other that, looking through them towards the light of the fire-grate, they could easily discover what passed in its vicinity, although a much stronger degree of illumination than it afforded would not have enabled the persons placed near the bottom of the cave to have descried them in the position which they occupied.
Foster's note seemed to crinkle into a sour grin where they lay on the black-leaded floor of the fire-grate.
'Adieu for the night, he said, and she smiled. He pressed for a pressure of her hand. She brightened her smile instead, and said only: 'Good night, Percy. Danvers accompanied Mr. Dacier to the house-door. Climbing the stairs, she found her mistress in the drawing-room still. 'You must be cold, ma'am, she said, glancing at the fire-grate. 'Is it a frost? said Diana.
Now at this hour of which I speak when Austrians marched like a merry flame down Milan streets, and Italians stood like the burnt-out cinders of the fire-grate, Italy's faint wrist was still in the clutch of her grave leech, who counted the beating of her pulse between long pauses, that would have made another think life to be heaving its last, not beginning.
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