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The blazing logs through the open stove door cast flickering flamelight upon the young man, who was restlessly warming himself, shifting his position constantly, as a man must who tries to warm himself too hastily.
She wished that they could be standing side by side at the fire in that five minutes when it is sheer extravagance to light the gas but so dark that one may stare as one cannot by day, so that she might look at what the driving flamelight showed of his black, sea-roughened magnificence. At her perfect memory of him she felt a rush of exhilaration which left her confused and glad and benevolent.
Quite your old self, she tells me, except for just this this touch of facial paralysis. Not quite so drawn. We must make haste slowly. Wedderburn, you know, believes profoundly in Simon; he pulled his wife through a dangerous confinement. And here's pills and tonics and liniments a whole chemist's shop. Oh, we are getting on swimmingly. Flamelight was flickering in the candled dusk.
He stood there in the flamelight, broad-chested, beautifully muscled, lean of hip, the perfect picture of a fighting man. Naked he was, save for his loin-cloth. And still he smiled. Stern likewise stripped away his own cloak. Clad only like the chief, he faced him. "Well, now," said he, "here goes! And may the best man win!" Kamrou waved the circle back at one side.
Quick she must be lest Clément and Fernand and Alphonse come home before the night fell over their sleeping place. In the evenings grand'mère's chair was pulled to the great hearth fire. Claire René would watch the flamelight spread over the stonelike face. Sometimes bright sparkles from the rows of copper pots and pans would lay spots of light on the heavy closed lids.
They raised the vessels, and over the antagonists' bare bodies poured a thin, warm stream of some rank-smelling oil. All over the skin they rubbed it, till the bodies glistened strangely in the flamelight. Then, with muttered words he could not catch, they withdrew. All seemed confused and vague to Stern as in a painful dream. Images and pictures seemed to present themselves to his brain.
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