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"Or lack of experience," added Bob. "No," said Welton, emphasizing his point with his pipe; "it's not sticking to business! It's not stripping her down to the bare necessities! It's going in for frills! When you get to be as old as I am, you learn not to monkey with the band wagon." His round, red face relaxed into one of his good-humoured grins, and he relit his pipe.
And then you realise that the city that is as dead as Nineveh to the outward eye is the most vital city in the world. One day it will rise from its ashes, its streets will resound once more with jest and laughter, its fires will be relit, and its chimneys will send forth the cheerful smoke.
"I know absolutely nothing," he said, "beyond what I have told you." The Colonel struck a match and relit his cigar. "I should like to understand," he said quietly, "why you avoided all mention of her in your evidence." Wrayson laughed oddly. "I should like to understand that myself," he declared. "I can only repeat what I said before. She was a woman, and I was a fool."
The rush of air extinguished the candle, yet I cared nothing, for the air was fresh and pure, promising a clear passage. God, this was luck! With new courage throbbing through my veins I groped my way back to the table after flint and steel, and relit the candle fragment, shadowing the flame with both palms as I returned to where the plank had been pressed aside.
When we got to the railway bridge he laid his hammers on the wall while he relit his pipe. I saw my last opportunity and seized it. "Say, Willie, did ye iver haave a feelin' that made ye feel fine all over and and made ye pray?" "I niver pray," he said. They're naggin at God from Aysther t' Christmas t' fill their pockets! A good day's stone breakin's my prayer.
One long-remembered joke was how one evening, at supper at Godwin's, Lamb entered the room first, seized a leg of mutton, blew out the candle, and placed the mutton in Martin Burney's hand, and, on the candle being relit, exclaimed, "Oh, Martin! Martin! I should never have thought it of you."
The kitchen stove, continually neglected, went continually out, the grate became clogged with ashes, the chimney refused to draw. He relit it, on his knees, the dog patiently at his side; he fanned the kindling into flames, poured on the coal, the shining black dust coruscating in instant, gold tracery. He bedded the horse more warmly, fed him in a species of mechanical, inattentive regularity.
So far as regards anything else, I do not think that I am in any sort of danger. I will confess to you that I am ambitious. I have not the slightest intention of falling a victim to Emily de Reuss, or any other woman." Drexley took up his cigar and relit it. "You speak," he said, "exactly as I should have done years ago. Yet you are fortunate so far."
The dervishes took matters very calmly; the desire to play for Biffen's was not strong enough to counterbalance the natural shrinking from a header into the duckweed and a run home in wet clothes. Singh Ram had a final try at the door, and then murmured so Gus said "Kismet," and relit his half-smoked cigar.
The boy-minister, as he looked, had been, in fact, 'bow' of the Cambridge eight, and possessed muscles which men twice his size might have envied. In three minutes he had put a couple of ringleaders into the street by the scruff of the neck, relit a lamp which had been turned out, and got the rest of the rioters in hand.
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