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The trees grew so close, and their boughs were so matted together, that the whole wood looked as dense as a bush of heather. The prevailing colour was a dull, smouldering red, touched here and there with vivid yellow.
Nigel Ennison was he." Anna stood up. Her cheeks were aflame. Her eyes were lit with smouldering passion. "Go on!" she commanded. "Let me know the truth." Annabel looked down. It was hard to meet that gaze. "Does he never speak to you of of old times?" she faltered. "Don't fence with me," Anna cried fiercely. "The truth!" Annabel bent over her and whispered in her sister's ear.
All day Wednesday the fire spread unchecked, all efforts to stay its devouring fury proving futile. In the business section of the city everything was in ruins. Not a business house was left standing. Theatres crumbled into smouldering heaps. Factories and commission houses sank to red ruin before the devouring flames.
He said nothing, but on his lips were the words, "By Heaven, the Girl means it!" and his eyes showed a smouldering admiration. "He doesn't hear you, he's out of it. But me me I hear you I ain't out of it," the Girl went on in compelling tones.
Ernest drew the cheque slowly from his pocket, and held it hesitatingly a moment in his hand. Edie looked at him curiously. 'What are you going to do with it, darling? she asked in a low voice, as he gazed vacantly at the last dying embers in the little smouldering fireplace. 'Nothing, Edie dearest, Ernest answered huskily, folding it up and putting it away in the drawer by the window.
We gathered buffalo-chips, to boil our coffee and cook our buffalo and antelope steak, smoked for a while around the smouldering fire until the animals were through grazing, and then started on our lonely way again.
Mountains and foot-hills were blackened by smouldering fires among the timber, while a dense pall of smoke entirely hid the distant ranges from view. Patches of sage-brush and bunch grass, burned sere and brown, alternated with barren stretches of sand from which piles of rubble rose here and there, telling of worked-out and abandoned mines.
The baby stared at the siskin, and chuckled. 'That's uncle, said Fenitchka, bending her face down to him and slightly rocking him, while Dunyasha quietly set in the window a smouldering perfumed stick, putting a halfpenny under it. 'How many months old is he? asked Pavel Petrovitch. 'Six months; it will soon be seven, on the eleventh.
He took him in his arms to comfort him, and bedded him down on the pillow. But when he stepped outside he found that his world too was vacant the house deserted, the corrals empty, the rodéo camp a smouldering fireplace, surrounded by a wilderness of tin cans.
The rule should be that none of the children may play with fire except with permission; and then that permission should be granted as often as possible that the children may be encouraged to ask for it. A stick smouldering at one end and waved about in circles and ellipses is not dangerous when elders are by, but it is dangerous if played with on the sly.
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