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And Captain Sir Horace Trevert, Bart., D.S.O., had gone from his famous school straight into a famous regiment, had won his decoration before he was twenty-one, and been twice wounded into the bargain. "Where's everybody?" queried the doctor, rubbing his hands at the blazing log-fire.
I leaned against the door-post, and speech forsook me. She saw my condition. 'Come in, Sir, she said. 'You are sick and it is no weather for a sick man. I stumbled after her and stood dripping in the centre of the little kitchen, while three wondering children stared at me. It was a poor place, scantily furnished, but a good log-fire burned on the hearth.
The sea was such a sight as I have not seen on shipboard, and while I luxuriously shuddered at it, I had the advantage of a mellow log-fire at my back, purring and softly crackling in a quiet indifference to the storm. Twenty-four hours more made all serene again.
She had been standing, she remembered, before the blazing log-fire in the great stone hall, much as she was standing now. Great changes had come since then. She was James Stuart's chosen wife and this man loved her. He had no hope of any reward; he desired even that she should not know. She should no doubt have been properly sorry and compassionate, but she was a girl simple and frank.
At last, the weary day came to an end; and when Hetty saw her two sufferers quietly asleep in snowy beds, in a great airy room, with a blazing log-fire on the hearth, she drew a long breath, and said to the doctor: "This is the most awful day I ever lived through." Dr. Eben smiled. "You have had a life singularly free from troubles, Miss Gunn." "No!" said Hetty, "I've had a great deal.
The cook had started a small log-fire to make tea for the colonel, Bushman, and myself, and after that we intended to lie down and get some sleep. "Swiffy" and the doctor seemed to have disappeared. Must be at one of the battery waggon lines, we concluded. "While tea is getting ready, I'll walk down to D Battery again.
My delight was therefore great when I discovered that either because he trusted his fellow-men, or because he possessed nothing in the least worth stealing he had left his door simply on the latch. I lifted the latch and walked in. A dim lantern burned on a little table near the smoldering log-fire. Yet the light was enough to tell me that my involuntary host was not in the room.
They decided that there ought to be eight rooms , and they named them. The Log-Fire Room; The Room of Little Feasts; the Place of Pots and Pans "That's the first floor," said Jean. "Yes." The upper floor was harder The Royal Suite; The Friendly Boom, for the dream maid of all work; The Spare Chamber
Never were the story, the joke, the song, and the laugh better enjoyed than upon the hewed blocks or puncheon-stools around the roaring log-fire of the early western settler.
A welcome log-fire was blazing in the huge old grate, for in October it is chilly and damp in Scotland and a fire is pleasant at evening. Muriel was seated upon the high padded fender like those one has at clubs which always formed a cosy spot for the ladies, especially after dinner. When I entered, she rose quickly and handed me my cup, exclaiming as she looked at me "Oh, Mr.
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