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Hans is joyous with his fellows, chaunts with them Luther's glorious hymn, Nun Danket alle Gott; and as the watch-fire burns up he rummages in the Gebetbuch for something that will chime with the current of his thoughts. He finds it in the prayer God of armies! Thou hast given us success and victory against our enemies, and hast put them to flight before us.
We therefore determined to make for it with all diligence, and soon perceived the bright glare of a large watch-fire, with a party of soldiers crowded round it.
Seated on a drum, some say; half asleep by the watch-fire, time half-past 2, when a Hussar Major, who has been out by the Bienowitz, the Pohlschildern way, northward, reconnoitring, comes dashing up full speed: "The King? where is the King?" "What is it, then?" answers the King for himself.
Who have lighted it, and what are they doing in a lonely spot like this?" A dozen steps again and the questions were answered. They cleared a little ridge and saw, two or three hundred yards ahead, a great glowing patch of red where a big fire blazed up, and figures moved to and fro about it. "A watch-fire," said Jack. "We'd better dodge back. Luckily they're up wind."
I love you still, Anna, but life holds other things than the love of man for woman. Some day I shall come back, and I will show you on canvas the things which have come to me up here amongst the eternal silence. "Many nights I have thought of you, Anna. Your face has flitted out of my watch-fire, and then I have been a haunted man.
There is bitter irony in the prophet's description of the poor flickering spot of light in the black waste and of its swift dying out. The travellers without a watch-fire are defenceless from midnight prowlers. How full of solemn truth about godless lives the vivid outline picture is! Men try to free themselves from the miseries of ignorance, sin, and sorrow.
The village of Koeena is walled round, and it is surrounded on three sides with rocky precipices. Had a severe tornado at seven o'clock, which put out the watch-fire and made us all crowd into the tents.
He had, therefore, built a fire by the road-side, intending to camp-out till morning. "And it was your fire, then, that checked us?" cried Roland, at this part of the story, "it was your light we took for the watch-fire of Indians?"
Close by this low wall the Highlander guided Waverley, and, in order probably to make him sensible of his danger, or perhaps to obtain the full credit of his own dexterity, he intimated to him, by sign and example, that he might raise his head so as to peep into the sheep-fold. Waverley did so, and beheld an outpost of four or five soldiers lying by their watch-fire.
"By Jove! there's sharp work of it to-night," whispered Hampden. "They do intend to surprise us to-morrow." "Gently now, to the left," said I, as cautiously skirting the little hill, I kept my eye firmly fixed upon the watch-fire. The storm, which for some time had abated considerably, was now nearly quelled, and the moon again peeped forth amidst masses of black and watery clouds.
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