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I observed also that there was a place at the farther side of it that went in further, but was so low that it required me to creep upon my hands and knees to go into it, and whither it went I knew not; so, having no candle, I gave it over for that time, but resolved to go again the next day provided with candles and a tinder-box, which I had made of the lock of one of the muskets, with some wildfire in the pan.
I have just returned from a personal interview with the landlord of the Pig and Tinder-box.
I stayed not to unsaddle him, but, cutting the surcingle with my knife, left him to shake the saddle off; then with the bridle I hammered on the door, shouting to my wife to open. I heard her fumbling for the tinder-box. 'For the love of Heaven, woman, strike no light, I cried. 'Santa Barbara bendita! have you seen a ghost? she exclaimed, opening to me.
A man with a flint and steel striking sparks over a wet blanket is one thing, and striking them over a tinder-box is another. The free Englishman is born under protest; he lives and dies under protest, a tolerated, but not a welcome fact. Is not free-thinker a term of reproach in England?
"I think;" said the other priest, "that at twenty you must indeed have been excitable, a veritable tinder-box, to have retained so much energy! Come, monsieur, try to calm yourself and have patience: you yourself admit it can only be a few hours' delay." "But my son accompanied his mother, and he is our only one, and so delicate!
This done, he took down his wallet, and brought his tinder-box and an iron flask his careful mother had put in. Ghysbrecht Van Swikten, the burgomaster of Tergon, an old man redolent of wealth, came riding by while Gerard was preparing a meal of soup and bread by the roadside. He reined in his steed and spoke uneasily: "Why, Peter Margaret what mummery is this?"
When she came back, there was my lord seated in the easy chair that was hers by custom and puffing away at his pipe a thing not allowed until after supper. You see, he had collared the tinder-box when he first came in, and had hidden it from her. Sal lit the lamp, quiet-like. "I s'pose you know you're sittin' 'pon my best bonnet?" said she. This took him aback.
That these pilgrims, after all their feastings and entertainments after the Delectable Mountains and the House Beautiful should all be plunged upon a land where there was not so much as a roadside inn, where the ways were so dark and so long that the pilgrims had to shout aloud in order to keep together, where, instead of moon or stars, they had to walk in the spark of a small tinder-box what an encouragement and assurance to us is all that!
The old doctor asked no questions at all, but fetched his greatcoat, tobacco-pouch, tinder-box, and case of instruments, and walked with them to the hill over Chyandour, where he found the trap waiting, with a boy at the horse's head.
"It's his face!" gasped the other. "There upon the table! I put my hand upon it. It's cold!" Landless rushed to the fireplace where he knew the tinder-box to be kept, and then groped for and found the heap of pine knots. A moment more and the fat wood was burning brightly, casting its red light throughout the hut, and choking back the pale daylight.
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