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Here is Europe, burning in one corner of it by Jenkins's Ear, and such a smoulder of combustible material awakening nearer hand: will not Europe, probably, blaze into general War; Pragmatic Sanction going to waste sheepskin, and universal scramble ensuing?
Even then his strange remissness would not have impressed itself upon him but for a startling discovery. The fire was beginning to smoulder once more, but enough of its glare penetrated the wood for him to note the black, column-like trunks of the trees between it and him. With his gaze upon the central point, he saw a figure moving in the path of light and coming toward him.
In the evening when the great logs of wood smoulder upon the enormous hearth and cast flickering shadows on the walls, revealing the cat slumbering in the ingle-nook, and the dog blinking on the rug when the farmer slowly smokes his long clay pipe with his jug of ale beside him, such an interior might furnish a good subject for a painter.
I fell in," piped Stacy, all his bravery gone now. Tad leaped across the intervening space and bounded to the side of his companion. "Ouch! I'm on fire!" shrieked Stacy. Tad grabbed and hauled him from his dangerous position. One of Tad's feet slipped in while he was doing so. By this time the clothes of both lads had begun to smoulder. "Run for it! Better be burned than scalped!" shouted Tad.
Hugo looked at him with those melancholy, sunken eyes, in which a sort of fire seemed to smoulder still. "Brian will never forgive me," he said. "Yes, Hugo, he will," said Angela. Brian gave an inarticulate murmur, whether of assent or dissent they could not tell. But he did not look at Hugo's face. "I know," said Hugo. "It doesn't matter. I don't care. I was justified in what I did."
He said he believed so. 'Did you know her when she was a little girl? He gave a discouraging affirmative. 'What was she like? 'I don't know. He had, indeed, forgotten. 'Well, you must remember her when she was young. 'Young? Henrietta nodded bravely though he seemed to smoulder. 'As young as I am. 'She was exactly the same as she is now. No, not quite. 'Nicer? 'Nicer? What a word!
Richard Pinckney, like most people, had the defects of his qualities, but he was different from others in this: his temper was quick and blazing when roused, yet on rare occasions it could hold its heat and smoulder, and keep alive indefinitely. When in this condition he shewed nothing of his feelings except towards the person against whom he was in wrath.
If he had had the luck to be an only child, he might have lived as his father had done, letting his meagre competence smoulder on almost without consuming, like the fuel in an air-tight stove.
Time and preoccupations may overlay them as with a film of ashes, but more or less deeply down they smoulder on, and the first breath will fan them into flame again. It was at the King's request I went to see her in her fine Madrid house opposite Santa Maria Mayor some months after her husband's death.
'Who is it, he said, 'making that fire smoulder around my feet? 'It is I, Makoma! shouted the hero. 'And I have come from far away to see thee, O Sakatirina, for the spirits of my fathers bade me go seek and fight with thee, lest I should grow fat, and weary of myself. There was silence for a while, and then the giant spoke softly: 'It is good, O Makoma! he said. 'For I too have grown weary.
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