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Then her eyes returned to the contemplation of the burning pine-logs. "I wonder why you will not talk of Paul," she said, in a voice requiring no answer. Maggie moved rather uneasily. She had her back turned toward Catrina. "I am afraid I am rather a dull person," she answered. "I have not much to say about any body." "And nothing about Paul?" suggested Catrina. "Nothing.
"That comes of using pine-logs," said Morgan, in a low voice, as amidst the shouting of orders, the tramp of men, and the hissing of the fire, volley after volley was fired from the palisades; but naturally these shots sent forth into the darkness were aimless, and in imagination I could see the enemy, after sending in their arrows, crawling away unhurt. The progress of this last fire was rapid.
He approached the now blazing pine-logs, and as he drew off his thick fur driving-gloves, and warmed his hands at the cheerful blaze, Ulrika again fixed her dull eyes upon him with something of wonder and reluctant admiration. Presently she trimmed an oil-lamp, and set it, burning dimly, on the table.
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