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Hour after hour Hawkins worked and watched the son of Sir Bardolph, and when the get-ready bell sounded he remarked: "Now, blarst you, we'll see if you're goin' to go to heverlastin' smash in the ring. Tommy, dig out a pair o' them burrs." Not until he reached the tanbark did Bonfire understand what burrs were.
Not a shot told, and the Leaguers had the satisfaction of making a bonfire in the king's face of the boats which had brought them over. Then, taking up their line of march rapidly inland, they placed themselves completely out of the reach of the Huguenot guns.
"George," exclaimed his wife, in a tone of querulous remonstrance, "you know how expensive " "Confound the expense and your penury both," exclaimed her husband; "is it to your own son, on his return to us after such an absence, that you'd grudge the expense of a blazing bonfire?" "Not the bonfire," replied his wife, but " "Ay, but the cost of drink to the tenants.
"Mine's all alterations and corrections. I shall just tear it up." "Well, so shall I." Most of the others followed suit, and made a bonfire in the empty grate with the originals of their essays. The fair copies they placed inside their desks.
These were the girls that gathered around a big out-door campfire it was really a bonfire in the snow of mid-winter on the evening of the opening of this story. Most of them were rich men's daughters, but there were no snobs among them. They were girls of vigor and vim, intelligence and imagination, practical and industrious.
Eighteen years later, these coaches were consumed in a bonfire in the Place du Carrousel. She, whom Napoleon had said was the only man of her family, was in Burgundy when she received news of the outbreak of the Revolution. At once she crossed several provinces of France in disguise.
In all the cities of the Seven Provinces the public joy manifested itself by festivities of which the expense was chiefly defrayed by voluntary gifts. Every class assisted. The poorest labourer could help to set up an arch of triumph, or to bring sedge to a bonfire. Even the ruined Huguenots of France could contribute the aid of their ingenuity.
Smoke, ominous and yellow, ballooned in huge volumes across the blue sky of the June day. "There ain't no bonfire in that, gents," declared a man. "That fire has got a start, and if it's in that slash from that logging operation, it ain't going to be put out with no pint dipperful." There was sudden hush in the big room.
On their way from Cinq-Cygne to fetch the last two hundred thousand francs, the party, emboldened by success, took a more direct way than on their other trips. The path passed an opening from which the park of Gondreville could be seen. "What is that?" cried Laurence, pointing to a column of blue flame. "A bonfire, I think," replied Michu.
"I'm sure you didn't," Prescott answered. "You're full of tricks, Ted Teall, but you're a real sportsman after you've been beaten." "Say, can this possibly be any of Hi Martin's work?" demanded Tom Reade, as the boys fell back steadily from the bonfire. "Only one objection to suspecting Hi," retorted Teall. "What's that?" asked Greg. "Too proud?" "No," snapped Teall.
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