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Updated: June 19, 2025
While Mary Datchet was undergoing this curious transformation from the particular to the universal, Mrs. Seal remembered her duties with regard to the kettle and the gas-fire. She was a little surprised to find that Mary had drawn her chair to the window, and, having lit the gas, she raised herself from a stooping posture and looked at her.
The only object that threw any light upon the character of the room's owner was a large perch, placed in the window to catch the air and sun, upon which a tame and, apparently, decrepit rook hopped dryly from side to side. The bird, encouraged by a scratch behind the ear, settled upon Denham's shoulder. He lit his gas-fire and settled down in gloomy patience to await his dinner.
A table in the room, an easy chair, and a gas-fire seemed to point to its occasional occupation. "You actually haven't had this changed!" exclaimed Ingred. "I thought it must all have been swept away by now!" "No. You see, Father took me over the house when first he decided to come here, and when he was arranging what papers to choose.
A big gas-fire was soon glowing in the handsome old fire-place, the panelled room seemed cosy. While Jim was handing round drinks and sandwiches, and Josephine was making tea, Robert played Bach on the piano the pianola, rather. The chairs and lounge were in a half-circle round the fire. The party threw off their wraps and sank deep into this expensive comfort of modern bohemia.
Don't delay." He hesitated a moment. "Is there a fire in the room upstairs?" "Yes, there is a gas-fire with asbestos." "I shall have to go home and get some things from the laboratory." "No, Alan, you must not leave the house. Write out on a sheet of note-paper what you want, and my servant will take a cab and bring the things back to you."
And alway an utter and everlasting quiet; save when some lonesome gas-fire did oddly to moan or to whistle, and the whistling to sound very dree across the great waste of the Gorge, and likewise the moaning to be but a thing to make the loneliness to be felt in the heart; and the Maid to feel thus with me.
By rights, he should have been sitting downstairs in the drawing-room describing his afternoon's adventures, or listening to the afternoon's adventures of other people; the room itself, the gas-fire, the arm-chair all had been fought for; the wretched bird, with half its feathers out and one leg lamed by a cat, had been rescued under protest; but what his family most resented, he reflected, was his wish for privacy.
It seemed to crush him. "Come, Alan, you must decide at once." He hesitated a moment. "Is there a fire in the room up-stairs?" he murmured. "Yes, there is a gas-fire with asbestos." "I will have to go home and get some things from the laboratory." "No, Alan, you need not leave the house.
The Sister rose too and went out into the kitchen to consult with the chef. I slipped out behind her and down the steps into the garden into the wet, dark garden, down the channels that were garden-paths, and felt my way over to the Sisters' quarters. My Sister hadn't moved. There by the gas-fire, her thin hand to her face, she sat as she had two hours before.
From the window he drifted into the adjacent office, closing the door after him; and presently the sound of a faint explosion told me that he had lighted the gas-fire. "Of course," said Miller, taking up the translation again, "this gibberish is the sort of stuff you might expect from a parcel of crack-brained anarchists; but it doesn't seem to mean anything."
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