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It might be nothing more than a furnace-room, yet he told himself that he must be on his guard, that from now on his perils began. Then he wondered why he should feel this premonitory sense, and in what lay the dividing line, and where lay the difference. Yet as he stood there, with his back against the wall, he felt something dormant and deep-seated stirring within him.
Sometimes, in those southern seas, the temperature of the furnace-room is something unthinkable, yet they endure it; though, as soon as their relief appears, they will fling their steaming, and almost naked, bodies into the scuppers, to let the rush of water wash them into coolness, once more.
Nance smiled tenderly. Dear Dan! Everybody liked him even those older men from the furnace-room who had seen him promoted over their heads. She leaned forward impulsively and called to him. "Danny!" she cried, "here's an apple. Catch!" He caught it dexterously in his left hand, gave her a casual nod, then went gravely on with the business in hand. Nance sighed and turned away from the window.
As he was drying his hands on his handkerchief and whistling softly under his breath, he was summoned to the office. For the past year he had been a self-constituted buffer between Mr. Clarke and the men in the furnace-room, and he wondered anxiously what new complication had arisen. "He's got an awful grouch on," warned the stenographer as Dan passed through the outer office. Mr.
The steamer had started on the trip short of firemen and now a fireman who had fallen in the furnace-room, striking his head on the steel floor, was lying unconscious in his berth.
He ran around the house, but at the corner he lost the trail, and though he circled the building three times, and listened, and dodged back and forth, to surprise "Dodd" if possible, he could get no clue to his whereabouts. He went into the cellar and looked all about, peering into the furnace-room and coal-bin, but nowhere could he find the crafty object of his search.
She could hear his voice in the distant furnace-room giving directions to Aminadab, whose harsh, uncouth, misshapen tones were audible in response, more like the grunt or growl of a brute than human speech. After hours of absence, Aylmer reappeared and proposed that she should now examine his cabinet of chemical products and natural treasures of the earth.
I feel like a bird that's got caught in a snare." His uncle had grown very pale during this speech, and at the last words he recoiled with an exclamation of horror. There was a silence in which he looked at his nephew with the wide eyes of a man who sees a specter. Then he turned away into the furnace-room, and picking up his lunch-box brought it back.
The house is to be divided into two compartments the furnace-room on one end, about eight feet long, and the propagating house, The furnace is below the ground, say four feet long, the flue to be made of brick, and to extend under the whole length of the bench.
The Jew, as the witness now recollects, though it did not strike him at the time, was eager to prevent him from going into the furnace-room. Solomon took him by the arm, and walked with him up the street, talking to him of some money which he was to remit to Meissen, to Sophia Mansfeld's father and mother.
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