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...ler to share their supper one evening, curious as they are to hear his stories. When he refuses, they capture him; the exchange of stories around the hearth turns into a debate about freedom and what freedom is worth. (Summary by Petra, partly adapted from the Translator's Preface)...

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...ring the night-time and instructed her niece to remove the centre tile of their hearth, where she would discover the oft promised treasure. The young... ... wall, began to swing of its own accord; and then leaped down and danced on the hearth, and when they seized it to burn, it could hardly be held on ... ...r blamed her for not carrying out the ashes, the devil would come and clear the hearth for her. So when she was sent to drive the hogs out of the co...

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...burg, the chief town in the island, destined to become so famous in the annals of Protestantism, at that time only numbered some two or three hundred hearths; and the prosperous town of Ostend was an obscure haven, a straggling village where pirates dwelt in security among the fishermen and the few poor merchants who lived in the place....

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...s of Prot- estantism, at that time only numbered some two or three hundred hearths; and the prosperous town of Ostend was an obscure haven, a straggli... ...e happy for ever,” she said. “Thou art my son.” We were sitting before the hearth, the ashes lay cold upon it; the old shrunken woman grasped my hand ...

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...of the good offices which are expected from it. Therefore it dances on the hearth, and laughs broadly throughout the room, and plays a thousand antics... ...n the venerable majesty of more than two hundred years. The light from the hearth quivered upon the flowers and foliage that were wrought into its oak... ...ssy wants to hear you.” And truly our yellow friend, the cat, lay upon the hearth rug, basking in the warmth of the fire, pricking up her ears, and t... ... drawn a deep moral from it. It should have taught him that the poor man’s hearth is sacred, and that armies and nations have no right to violate it. ... ... a story that made the children feel the blessing of a secure and peaceful hearth, Grandfather put off the other events of the old French War till the... ...ial residence for himself and his posterity, the fire rolled down upon the hearth and crumbled it to ashes!” Grandfather now looked at his watch, whic... ...fortable room. With every puff of the wind the fire leaped upward from the hearth, laughing and rejoicing at the shrieks of the wintry storm. Meanwhil... ...ere shattered with heavy clubs and hewn to splinters with axes. The marble hearths and mantel pieces were broken. The volumes of Hutchinson’s library... ...nwhile Captain Preston was, perhaps, sitting in our great chair before the hearth of the British Coffee House. In the course of the evening there were...

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...pwards to the great stone-paved hall, with a huge fire burning on the open hearth. Around it had gath- ered the ladies of the T albot family waiting f... .... The room was full of March sunshine, and a great wood fire blazed on the hearth. Part of the floor was carpeted, and overhung with a canopy, proceed... ...e and cruelty? Papist butchers and Scottish thieves, for the child of your hearth! Were it not better that I stole her safely away and wedded her in s... ...gh-backed settles were ar- ranged so as to exclude the draughts around the hearth, where Mary reclined on a couch-like chair. She looked ill, and thou... ...s more like to bless honest men who fight for their Queen, their homes and hearths, than traitors who would bring in slaughterers and butchers to work... ...ered with tapestry so faded that the pattern could hardly be detected. The hearth yawned dark and dull, and by it stood one chair with a moth-eaten cu...

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... away, drew out his watch, broke the mainspring, and hung it up beside the hearth. It was eleven o’clock in the morning. “Mlle. d’Esgrignon,” he said,... ...with its marvelous carving, seemed more wonderful to me than the vast open hearth of the salon d’Esgrignon when I saw it for the first time. It was co... ...gings continually and gladly offered up as a sacrifice on the altar of the hearth. Mlle. Armande was not like the Duch- ess. She did not look like an ... ...en then on his way. “Bah!” said the Marquis, standing with his back to the hearth, “if he is doing well where he is, he ought to stay there, and not b...

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...erself: 4 Agnes Grey and if she would but consent to embellish his humble hearth he should be happy to take her on any terms; while she, on her part,... ...e of day, and see its inhabitants peaceably gathered around their cheerful hearth, without a feeling almost of envy at their domestic enjoyment.’ ‘Y o... ...r the angry muttering of a storm that was about to burst, and desolate our hearth. 124 Agnes Grey CHAPTER XVIII—MIRTH AND MOURNING THE 1ST OF JUNE ar...

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...tor- rent. This was not the worst. The fires had been quenched upon thirty hearths—of the cottage of his fathers he could but distinguish a few rude s...

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... Circuit again receives him, closes on him; gazing Paris may retire to its hearths and coffee-houses, to its clubs and theatres: the damp Darkness has...

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...s. To the dullest peasant, as he sits sluggish, overtoiled, by his evening hearth, one idea has come: that of Chateaus burnt; of Chateaus combus- tibl... ...or his part, will lay down the command. He retires Cincinnatus-like to his hearth and farm; but soon leaves them again. Our National Guard, however, s... ... phenomenon, and how, in a peaceable trading City, so many householders or hearth- holders do severally fling down their crafts and industrial tools; ...

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...and dreary in that wild lonely vale, and large was the fire burning on the hearth in the castle hall, in the full warmth of which there sat, with a li... ...eing mulcted of all, with or without excuse. 76 The Caged Lion On an open hearth beneath the louvre, or opening for smoke, burnt a fire diffusing all... ...away. Wherefore else was it that Ulysses sat as a beggar by his pa- ternal hearth, or that Cadmus wandered to seek his sister?’ This was anything but ...

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...tted to them by two young Fathers, the travellers presently drew round the hearth. They were in three parties; of whom the first, as the most numerous... ...the other. The young gentleman who was standing in an easy attitude on the hearth, cocking his glass at the company, with his back to the blaze and hi... ...politeness, followed her in, and resumed his seat in the best place in the hearth. There with the wood-fire, which was beginning to burn low, rising a... ... wrists in that constabulary manner of his, and have paced up and down the hearthrug, or gone creep- ing about among the rich objects of furniture, if... ...s house under a distraint, than a commercial Colos- sus bestriding his own hearthrug, while the little ships were sailing into dinner. Behold the vess... ...a committal of him- self with the family. Mr Merdle was slinking about the hearthrug, waiting to wel- come Mrs Sparkler. His hand seemed to retreat up... ... hour, Mr Dorrit rang for the Courier, who found him with his chair on the hearth-rug, sitting with his back towards him and his face to the fire. ‘Y ... ...s only his daughter and his brother there: he, with his chair drawn to the hearth, enjoying the warmth of the evening wood fire; she seated at a littl...

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...ch chatterbox Beatrix said mamma had made too. A fire was crackling on the hearth, although it was June. My lady thought the room wanted warming; ever...

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...nd called “Mollie!” and returned to assume an attitude of authority on the hearthrug, before the blue flames and orange glow of the gas fire. 14 Ann ... ...ed toward her, but she recoiled from him, leaving him in possession of the hearth-rug. “Well,” she said, “good-night, father.” “What!” he asked; “not ... ...n head.’ “ “But that is flat rebellion!” said Mr. Stanley, standing on the hearthrug with his back to the unlit gas-fire. “You ought at once—you ought... ...long; she wanted to talk. She sat, crouched together, by the corner of the hearthrug under the bookcase that supported the pig’s skull, and looked int... ...rs. Capes stood side by side upon an old Persian carpet that did duty as a hearthrug in the dining-room of their flat and surveyed a shining din- ner-... ... Mr. Stanley, in his effort to seem at ease, took entire possession of the hearthrug. “You found the flat easily?” said Capes in the pause. “The numbe... ...e preliminaries of smoking occupied them both. Then Capes flittered to the hearthrug and poked the fire, stood up, and turned about. “Ann V eronica is...

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...feet; and that they take up their abode in them sometimes was evident from the hearths, made of clay, to contain the fire in the middle, leaving room ...

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...s, and chil- dren; which feature of approximation to the sanctity of human hearths, added to their comparatively miniature and graceful pro- portions,...

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...ac ing it to its perpendicular position; then he swept up the ashes of the hearth, which bore witness to a persistent ca- tarrh. Finally, the old man ...

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...d and water: sometimes for months there was not a fire once lighted on his hearth. They record with just pride that he would mend his own shoes, patch... ...s that in no meeting of men did he ever enjoy better discourse than at the hearth of this peasant. And his poor “seven acres of nursery-ground,”—not t...

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...saplings on French soil—comes to meet his kind; talent swarms here without hearth or home, and energy equal to anything, even to making a fortune. Wel...

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... by the cowherd’s wife, to watch some cakes which she put to bake upon the hearth. But, being at work upon his bow and arrows, with which he hoped to ...