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"Well, well, what is it, please?" said the lawyer sharply and insolently, looking to where I was standing with folded arms at one side of the hearth-place. "You'll hear soon enough, Master Curphy," I answered. Then, turning back to Daniel O'Neill, I told him what rumour had reached my dear one of his intentions with regard to her child, and asked him to say whether there was any truth in it.
"I can see that it's fine but, dear God, is there no way out of it? It's so horribly, so unspeakably sad." And Richard remained on into the small hours, sitting before the dying fire of the big hearth-place, at the eastern end of the gallery. Mentally he audited his accounts, the profit and loss of this day's doing, and, on the whole, the balance showed upon the profit side.
Old Tommy the Mate came to the door of his cabin. I went into the quiet smoky place with its earthen floor and sat in a dull torpor by the hearth, under the sooty "laff" and rafters. The old man did not say a word to me. He put some turf on the fire and then sat on a three-legged stool at the other side of the hearth-place.
The wooden chimney-piece, the hearth-place, the black hobs, the straight barred grate with its frame of fine fluted iron, belonged to a period of simplicity. The oblong mahogany table in the center of the room, the sofa and chairs, upholstered in horsehair, were of a style austere enough to be almost beautiful.
"I didn't write, Ronny. I couldn't." "I know." Their eyes met, measuring each other's grief. "That's why I came. I couldn't bear to leave you to it." "I'd have come before, Michael, if you'd wanted me." They were sitting together now, on the settle by the hearth-place. "I can't understand your being able to think of me," he said. "Because of Nicky?
Then I noticed that the great bronze chandelier seemed all alight, though the hall was dim, and that a fire was blazing in the vast hearth-place, though it gave no heat; and I shuddered up with terror, and folded my darling closer to me. But as I did so the east door shook, and she, suddenly struggling to get free from me, cried, 'Hester! I must go. My little girl is there!
Her idea was that Anne should come in from her work on the land and find the house all ready for her, everything in its place, chairs and sofas dressed in their gay suits of chintz, the books on their shelves, the blue-and-white china in rows on the oak dresser. Tea was set out on the gate-legged table before the wide hearth-place. The lamps were lit. A big fire burned.
I've had such dreams lately such creepy-like, ghastly old dreams of wandering in wayless ways covered with water; of seeing the hearth-place full of cold ashes and the lights put out; and of carrying the 'Grief Child' in my breast, a puny, wailing bit of a baby that I could not be rid of, nor yet get away from sights and sounds after me night and day that do give me a turn to think of; and what they do mean I haven't mind-light for to see.
He drew up his chair to the wide, open hearth-place where there was no fire; he held out his hands over it. The wind swept down the chimney and made him colder; and he felt sick. He had been sitting there about an hour when Suzanne came in and asked him if he would like a little fire. He heard himself saying, "No, thank you," in a hard voice. The idea of warmth and comfort was disagreeable to him.
She wavered to her chair by the hearth-place, and covered her face with her white hands. The boy got to his knees, then to his feet; he staggered backwards into the arras beside the door. 'God's curse on you! he said. 'Where is Margot? That I may beat her! That I may beat her as you have beaten me. He waved his hand with a tipsy ferocity and staggered through the door.
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