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Late in the afternoon he reached Stoneborough, found no one come in, and sat down in the fire-light, where, for all his impatience, fatigue had made him drop asleep, when he was roused by Gertrude's voice, exclaiming, 'Here really is Tom come, as you said he would, without writing. Here are all his goods in the hall. 'Is it you, Tom! cried Ethel. 'Notice or no notice, we are glad of you.
The objects at present on the table are, a pestle and mortar, and a saucepanful of the dry bones of animals in plain words, the dinner for the day. By way of ornament to the dull brown walls, icicles appear in the crevices of the timber, gleaming at intervals in the red fire-light. No wind whistles outside the lonely dwelling no cry of bird or beast is heard.
He crawled from tree to tree, from log to bush, until he was near enough to see the features of the men. When he first got within sight they stood with their backs toward him and he could not see their faces; but at last one turned about so that the glare of the fire-light fell full on his face, and, with a cry of joy, Charles Stevens bounded to his feet, crying: "Mr. Waters! Mr.
"Then they are my brethren," she said, "since I, also, belong to thee," and with arms entwined they passed out of the fire-light into the purple of the desert. When they came back, the hobbled camels were snoring, and the unfed fires were smouldering. "Allah keep thee," said Abdullah, at the door of her tent. "And thee, my master," said the girl, and the flaps fell.
But she let it stay. Neither spoke. Only as they neared the front door with the lamp, she softly withdrew her fingers. There was no one in the drawing-room, which was scented with early hyacinths, and pleasantly aglow with fire-light. Winnington closed the door, and they stood facing each other. Delia wanted to cry out to prevent him from speaking but she seemed struck dumb. He approached her.
He came thundering back along the road with his scabbard out in the wind behind him and reined up suddenly when his horse's forefeet were abreast of the lieutenant. "There's some one coming, sir, hard as he can gallop! He's one of our men by the sound of him. His horse is shod and I thought I saw steel when the fire-light fell on him a minute ago!" "Are you sure there's only one?" "Sure, sir!
Now we see the glad face and glowing form of Joy, sitting merrily in the old chair, and throwing a warm fire-light radiance over all the household. Now, while we thought not of it, the dark clad mourner, Grief, has stolen into the place of Joy, but not to retain it long. The imagination can hardly grasp so wide a subject, as is embraced in the experience of a family chair."
I said to Layelah that these athalebs were wild ones, which had come here because they saw or scented our wounded one; but Layelah shook her head with mournful meaning. "Oh no," said she; "Almah has come back for you. This fire-light has guided them. If you had not made the fire they never, never, never could have found us; but now all is lost." There was no time for conversation or discussion.
We do not like wet feet, do we, Willie?" Then the mother, intent on soothing the child, sat down in the fire-light and held his curly head in her lap, whispering little cooing sentences into his ear whenever he grew restless; while her strange, unbidden guest continued to evaporate in one corner of the hearth, sitting with his hands on his knees, staring at something in the coals.
"I am tired, Stephen," she whispered, and softly laid her head down on his breast. The red fire-light flashed into a glory of crimson through the room, about the two figures standing motionless there, shimmered down into awe-struck shadow: who heeded it?
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