The sitting-room was in dusk, and, as she entered, the firelight showed the huge body of the general lying upon the hearth rug.
As he sat in the firelight the room seemed to turn into a place of judgment.
It will show even on a ring by firelight; blood in the gold, they say.
The crowd had meanwhile closed up against the wall, pressing eye and ear against the air-holes, out of which the firelight shone.
I can see thee now as I saw thee then, with the firelight glowing over thee, like a smile from the cerulean skies!
