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When she had told her tale, the spirits whispered earnestly among themselves, while sparks fell thick and fast with every word; at length the Fire-Queen said aloud, "We cannot give the flame you ask, for each of us must take a part of it from our own breasts; and this we will not do, for the brighter our bosom-fire burns, the lovelier we are.
'All this was taking place, more than two years afterwards, on board that nautical ruin the Fire-Queen this Jones had got charge of quite by a funny accident, too from Matherson mad Matherson they generally called him the same who used to hang out in Hai-phong, you know, before the occupation days. The old chap snuffled on
It was announced some time ago, in one of the French journals, that experiments had been tried with a female, whose fire-standing qualities had excited great astonishment. She, it appears, was placed in a heated oven, into which live dogs, cats, and rabbits were conveyed. The poor animals died in a state of convulsion almost immediately, while the Fire-queen bore the heat without complaining.
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