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Updated: May 28, 2025
They like to live on the refuse of each other's breath, and close up every window and ventilator tight. The sun pours down through glass and blind and scorches our limbs. Our heads and our bodies ache. The dust and soot drift in and settle on our clothes, and grime our hands and face. We all doze and wake up with a start, and fall to sleep again upon each other.
And he comes home and wants to settle down as master, but the guild won't accept him; he is too young. So he goes to sea as cook, and comes to places down south where the sun burns so fiercely that the pitch melts in the seams and the deck scorches one's feet. They are a merry band, and Jeppe, little as he is, by no means lags behind the rest.
The sun is a good sun; but this roof, in first scorches, and then rots. An old house. They went West, and are long dead, they say, who built it. A mountain house. In winter no fox could den in it. That chimney-place has been blocked up with snow, just like a hollow stump." "Yours are strange fancies, Marianna." "They but reflect the things."
Last night was the most uncomfortably and unsleepably sultry that we have experienced since our residence in Concord; and to-day it scorches again. I have a sort of enjoyment in these seven-times-heated furnaces of midsummer, even though they make me droop like a thirsty plant. The sunshine can scarcely be too burning for my taste; but I am no enemy to summer showers.
The "Times" might have found a moral for the earthquake nearer home. The flame that sweeps our prairies is terrible, but it only scorches the surface.
She groped her way, torn and wounded, downward along the old lost human paths. The endless night scarcely moved on. She was wearied out, she was exhausted. There is anger of such intensity that it scorches and shrivels away the very temptations that are its fuel; nothing can long survive the blast of that white flame, and being unfed, it dies out.
The effect produced by poisons on animals is still more plain to see: its malignity extends to every part that it reaches, and all that it touches is vitiated; it burns and scorches all the inner parts with a strange, irresistible fire. "The poison employed by Sainte-Croix has been tried in all the ways, and can defy every experiment.
"He warms himself at the flame and perhaps scorches himself, too, or it may be that he wishes to make some one else jealous Helen Harley, for instance. I merely venture the suggestion; I do not pretend to know all the secrets of the social life of Richmond." Prescott went that very afternoon to the Grayson cottage, and he prepared himself with the greatest care for his going.
"Well," called the Sculptor after him, as he sauntered away, "as one of our mutual friends used to say 'The Indian Summer of Passion scorches." "But, alas!" added the other, "it does not always kill." "Witness " began the Journalist, but the Critic cut him short. "As you love me not that famous list of yours including so many of the actresses we all know. I can't bear THAT to-night.
Then this same God if any there be He who you say put more on you than you could bear He struck me, as, well no He did not strike but ground me, ground me into dust took her out of my life and then laid my soul before me so naked that the very sunlight scorches it. What was it the old preacher said that 'touch of God' business?
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