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"Has Kentucky forgotten its gallantry so fully as that? Rumor has reported the young woman to me as a charming young widow, of beauty, wealth and breeding." "Yes, manners, and convictions, and courage abolitionist tendencies and fighting proclivities. She is a firebrand a revolutionist, fresh back from the Old World, and armed with weapons of whose use we old fogies are utterly ignorant.
No editor or publisher would ever dream of dismissing you, for example, because you invited your firebrand friend Max Schurz to dinner.
Another and another followed, each more violent than the preceding one, then came a terrific blast that whirled the blanket I had been lying on away into the night: the last firebrand was snatched up as though by an unseen hand, and borne high over the dune, and before I had time to realize what was happening I was fighting for my life in the howling darkness of a terrific sandstorm.
To see the two lads with such blood in their veins in the tame security and insignificance of an existence so different from his own, looking at their famous father with wonder, perhaps not unmixed with youthful disapproval, as a Presbyterian and a firebrand, must have given that absolute soul a curious lesson.
Above all, California told tales of Nevada and Arizona, of lonely nights spent out prospecting, the slaughter of deer and the chase of men, of woman lovely woman who is a firebrand in a Western city and leads to the popping of pistols, and of the sudden changes and chances of Fortune, who delights in making the miner or the lumber-man a quadruplicate millionaire and in "busting" the railroad king.
"I shouldn't wonder if you found that you'd brought a firebrand into the family, Alec. Two, in fact, for Phebe is a fine girl, and the lads have found it out already if I'm not mistaken," added Uncle Mac, with a nod toward the other room. All eyes followed his, and a highly suggestive tableau presented itself to the paternal and maternal audience in the back parlor.
"I will act conformably to your advice," said I to the marechal; "at the same time I own to you that I fear him like a firebrand." "I, like you, think that there is in him something of the infernal stone: he burns you on the slightest touch. But now, to this letter; you will see what he says to you. He begs me most particularly to conceal from every body the step he has taken with you.
We knew that much of the darkness, the blackness of darkness, was adamantine rock; some of it an inky flood a veritable river of death rolling close beneath us, but quite invisible most of the time; and the night itself a profound mystery, through which we burned an endless tunnel like a firebrand hurled into space.
There's a clause I want added about the boy, Walter Hepburn. He's been with me a long time, and though he's a very firebrand, he's faithful and honest. He won't rue it. Mr. Fordyce adjusted his eyeglass and spread out the will before him.
"Lucky dog!" said the stout gentleman; "you'll ride back with her, and you've won all I've got." And he dug Mr. Riddle in the ribs. "You'll have it again when we play to-night, Darnley," answered Mr. Riddle, crossly. "And as for the seat in the coach, you are welcome to it. That firebrand of a lad is on the front seat." "D n the lad," said the stout gentleman.
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