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Updated: June 23, 2025
Huddled over the brazier of charcoal that smouldered under a rug in a shallow hole in the middle of the floor, Naomi had not heeded the wild dash of rain against the house nor its melancholy dripping in the deserted garden. Even the excitement of Ezra and Jonas over a slight fall of snow, the first either one had ever seen, had failed to rouse her.
Finally he drew near and deliberately tapped the ashes from his half-smoked pipe upon the shining marble. The embers smouldered and went out. A black stain remained upon the dazzling white surface of the stone column. He looked at it for a moment or two, then turned and retraced his steps with grim precision.
Twenty minutes later all six were frantically digging, hoeing, chopping, beating in a frenzy against the spread of the flames. In some manner the fire had jumped the line. It might have been that early in the fight a spark had lodged. As long as the darkness of night held down the temperature, this spark merely smouldered. When, however, the rays of the sun gathered heat, it had burst into flame.
His idol in his eyes had never had feet of clay. For him the stricken man was his Emperor still the architect, the creator, the invincible conqueror checked for a moment in his glorious work, but able at his will to rebuild the Empire of France again on the very ruins that smouldered now on the fields of Waterloo.
The formal act of annexation merely set a seal to thirty years of effective Austrian administration, during which the Sultan's rule had been confined to the official celebration of his birthday. Educational and agrarian problems had been neglected, popular discontent had smouldered, but at least great material progress had been made.
"The dear child," the friends of her mother all remembered, had once possessed a temper that only the peculiar circumstances of her life had chastened, and they had an uneasy suspicion that it still smouldered beneath the well-bred insolence with which she had so far received much friendly advice. By this time mid-December was nigh the judge and Gwynne had discussed many subjects besides the law.
In the center smouldered the ruins of a cabin, with a few fitful flames still spurting from the ashes and charred log ends. "You've done well, Dale," the Colonel observed. "Bob, leave a notice for him here. He can read, I suppose?" "He's been going to school for several months," Bob said, tearing off the back of an envelope and stooping to write.
"Dan King, don't you DARE eat those berries," said Felicity in her "bossiest" tone. "They're poison. Drop them right away." Now, Dan had not had the slightest intention of eating the berries. But at Felicity's prohibition the rebellion which had smouldered in him all day broke into sudden flame. He would show her!
George saw upon the hand that held the sealed tube a ring of matchless workmanship, set with a great ruby that smouldered in the shadow where they stood. Olivia looked at St. George with startled eyes. "He was not wearing this when we first saw him," she said. "I haven't seen him wearing it at all." St. George confronted the old man then and spoke with some determination.
He did not speak, but she felt the steady insistence of his gaze. In self-defense she looked at him. The pallor of his face lent accent to the fire that smouldered in his eyes. "I'm going to marry you, Sheba. Make up your mind to that, girl," he said harshly. There was infinite pity in the look she gave him. "'There's caulder things than salt waves between us, so they are," she quoted.
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