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Updated: June 11, 2025
Within these ivied walls, behind these old green shutters, some further business smoulders, waiting for its hour. The old "Hawes Inn" at the Queen's Ferry makes a similar call upon my fancy.
"It is bad to hear," one little man acknowledged, with a sigh, "but who can doubt it? There is a fever which has caught hold of this country, which blazes in the towns and smoulders in the country places, and that is the fever of money-making. Men are blinded with the passion of it. They tell me that even Otto Schmidt in Milwaukee has turned his great factories into ammunition works."
There is no hiding it everything has faded about me, all life has paled. The light that gives life's colours depth and meaning the light that comes out of the heart of man is dead within me.... No, not dead yet it feebly smoulders on, giving no light, no warmth. Once, late in the night in Moscow, I remember I went up to the grating window of an old church, and leaned against the faulty pane.
In Australia I have heard of evil men taken red-handed being left in the bush with food and water by them, bound to a fallen tree which has been set on fire at one end. And the fire smoulders and smoulders, and travels inch by inch along the trunk, and they watch their slow, inevitable death coming towards them day by day, until it at last destroys them also inch by inch.
I dare say I was absurdly tragical, I'm apt to be when very angry, but what a temper he has got! The white, cold kind, that smoulders and stabs, instead of blazing up and being over in a minute. Thank Heaven, I'm not his wife! Well, I've made an enemy and lost my place, for of course Mrs. Saltonstall won't keep me after this awful discovery.
Within these ivied walls, behind these old green shutters, some further business smoulders, waiting for its hour. The old Hawes Inn at the Queen's Ferry makes a similar call upon my fancy.
At first success attended the rebellion, but it never spread beyond the unsettled eastern provinces, and after three years it ineffectually smoulders on, the leader cooped up by the Sultan's forces near the coast, though the Sultan is not strong enough to stamp it out.
Anyhow, the cafe smoulders like a damp squib. When you spend the day on shore and when, having exhausted the charms of the town, a thing that usually takes from between ten minutes to a quarter of an hour, you apply to an inhabitant for advice as to the disposal of the rest of your shore leave, you are told to "go and see the coals."
Laugh at him, distrust him, open your eyes in wonder at that secret self which smoulders in him, sometimes under the everyday respectability and tranquillity of a man like me sometimes under the grinding poverty, the fierce squalor, of men less lucky, less pliable, less patient than I am but judge us not!
In that elaborate ritual, in the procession of the symbols, in the winged circle, in the laborious sarcophagus? Nothing; absolutely nothing! Before the fierce heat of the human furnace, the papyri smoulder away as paper smoulders under a lens in the sun.
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