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Yet their faces, all unlike as they were, had an expression that seemed not so alien, a glow of kindred feeling, flashing upward anew from half-extinguished embers. "You are welcome home!" said Faith Egerton. But Cranfield did not immediately answer; for his eye had been caught by an ornament in the shape of a Heart, which Faith wore as a brooch upon her bosom.
Two half-extinguished brands are smoking amid the cinders on the hearth. On the stone mantelpiece, painted to resemble gray granite, stands an old iron candlestick, furnished with a meagre candle, capped by an extinguisher. Near it one sees a pair of double-barrelled pistols, and a sharp cutlass, with a hilt of carved bronze, belonging to the seventeenth century.
The half-extinguished fire, having been replenished by the falling structure much of which was dry and inflammable caught on the roof and flashed down into the interior. "Save the pork, lad!" shouted the captain, as he sprang out of the kindling mass. "Ay, ay, father," replied the son.
At any moment now he understood that one of the devils in gray might hurl itself at the full throat of Beatrice or at his own. And once the taste of blood lay on those crimson tongues good-by! "The boat the boat!" he shouted, striking right and left like mad with the smoky, half-extinguished flare. "There the river!" suddenly cried Beatrice.
It was like a flame which we see twinkling among half-extinguished embers; we gaze at it more intently than if it were a positive blaze, gushing vividly upward, more intently, but with a certain impatience, as if it ought either to kindle itself into satisfactory splendor, or be at once extinguished.
"As for you, my lord," said his Majesty to the English nobleman, "if the misfortune of last night prove disastrous in more ways than one, pray wait for a while before you go back to the smouldering ashes of a half-extinguished fire.
The first objects they fell on were two lifeless figures, the bodies of his late savage masters, stretched near the half-extinguished fire.
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