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Updated: June 3, 2025
She opened her eyes next morning from the depths of Mrs. Mason's best feather bed, and looked wonderingly about the room, with all its unaccustomed surroundings. She heard the rattle of fire-irons and the flatter of dishes below; the first time in all her woman's life that preparations for breakfast had ever greeted her ears when she had not been an active participator in them.
I did not like it. Then I saw what I liked less. Seven of these pillars of mist, each about the size of a man, were standing in a row just outside the garden fence, and in each I thought I saw two dull red eyes; and the hollow whispering grew louder. Just then I heard a noise behind me in the room, as if the fire-irons had suddenly fallen down.
Though of modern make, the heavy brass fire-irons are of ancient shape. The fire has gone out the logs are white with the ash that forms upon decaying embers; it is clear that the owner of this bare apartment, called a library, but really a study, is not one who thinks of his own personal comfort.
The mouldy old unreformed Borough Member, with his right hand buttoned up in the breast of his coat, and his back characteristically turned on bales of petitions from his constituents, was there too; and the poker which never had been among the fire-irons, lest post-horse company should overstir the fire, was NOT there, as of old.
The pretty carved Indian tea-table a gem in Bombay blackwood was wheeled in front of the fire-place, which was old, as regarded the high wooden mantel-piece and capacious breadth of the hearth, but essentially new in its glittering tiles and dainty brass fire-irons. The clock had hardly finished striking when Bessie bounced into the room, rosy and smiling, in sealskin jacket and toque.
This here is a noo grate an' fire-irons, as cost fi' pun' ten. The man I got it fro' said it wos a bargain at that, but some knowin' friends o' mine holds a different opinion. Here is a noo clock, as goes eight days of his own accord, an' strikes the halves an' quarters, but he's not so good as he looks, like many other showy critters in this world.
A tense silence fell broken by the crackling of the wood in the grate, which the charwoman had at last succeeded in stirring into a blaze, and by the rattling of the fire-irons which she now arranged in the fender. Everybody was watching the suspected man, and nobody as keenly as Brereton. And Brereton saw that a deadlock was at hand.
I recollect a sooty sack being drawn over my head, just as a general rush of servants and male members of the family, alarmed by the hideous noise of the water-bottle and fire-irons, rushed into the room.
"You've remembered that, have you?" "Yes, Alfred," said his wife. "And are you sorry for all your bad behavior?" demanded Mr. Hatchard. Mrs. Hatchard hesitated. Then a clatter of fire-irons downstairs moved her to speech. "Ye-yes," she sobbed. "And you want me to take you back?" queried the generous Mr. Hatchard. "Ye-ye-yes," said his wife. Mr.
While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby the fire-irons came first; then followed a shower of saucepans, plates, and dishes.
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