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Updated: May 9, 2025
A fire smoldered in the cave's black throat, and meat mutton-bones- -roasted on a sharpened stake thrust into a crevice of the rock. An old woman, wasted and wrinkled, wrapped in a yellow-gray wolfskin lined with lamb's wool, lay on a pile of leaves near the fire, and savage heads emerging from the undergrowth might have been those of wolves, or of men in the guise of wolves.
This train had smoldered in the afternoon, had been fanned ever so slightly by two breezes the sense of Maggie's superiority and the faint rebellious reaction which had come upon him with regard to his personal religion. Certainly he had had Mass said for Amy this morning; but it had been by almost a superstitious rather than a religious instinct.
The lower apartment of the hut on the heath was the very picture of abject poverty and dreary desolation. The earthen floor was broken and rough; the sunlight came sifting through the chinks in the broken walls. A smoky fire of wet driftwood smoldered, under a pot on the crook. There was neither table nor chairs.
A fire smoldered on the hearth. "Hullo!" cried the captain. "Someone still lives!" "Yonder lies the body of a man!" exclaimed Viola, who had crept to Bob's side and taken his arm between her hands. "Don't be afraid," he whispered. "We must be glad that we have arrived in time, if indeed we have." The captain and Bob advanced to the prostrate man's side.
Two half-burned sticks and a form of turf smoldered sparingly on a mound of hot ashes; he eagerly cast on a fagot, and added wood with, for once, an extravagant hand. Then, looking over at her, he smiled, too. "Now tell me all about yourself," she commanded. "I want to know what you're doing for this cold of yours." "Please let us not talk about my cold," he at once refused.
For the clear flame of it had lost its clarity; the confidence that had fanned it was gone the sense of his own rightness. The irresistible surge of passion that had carried him off, had destroyed that. The flame smoked and smoldered. "Have you anything here," he asked her dully, "besides what will go in your trunk?"
Again it was very hot and close, with but little wind stirring. All about them it was still as light as day. For more than a mile the embers, yet red and glowing, lay, and in the orchards tree trunks smoldered casting out alternate flame and smoke. Save for those melancholy ruins everything was swept bare. At the edge of the woods an Indian dog poked his nose at the sky and howled dismally.
For any one living in the country at the time to have believed it would be too ridiculous. That brutal affair was only one more brand added to a fire which had smoldered for ten years. It happened to be the last piece of violence before both red and white threw aside make-believe and settled down to the ghastly struggle for supremacy.
So he did not rise from his seat, but sitting still he gradually sunk lower, until in a short time he was sleeping as soundly as either of the three around him. Another hour wore away, and the fire smoldered lower and all was still. Then numerous heads peered over the edge of the ravine for a few seconds, and as suddenly withdrew.
On the threshold he stood speechless, tense with hatred, eyes that smoldered with jealousy, with rage, burning in hollows dug by weariness and labor and privation. He closed the door behind him slowly. Bonbright looked up and nodded. Dulac did not reply, but stared, crouching a little, his lips drawn a trifle back so that a glint of white showed between. "You wanted to see me?" said Bonbright.
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