Before they leapt the hedge into their own garden Eric saw the firelight blossoming in the windows.

" The firelight cast shadows; the group seemed smaller and more vulnerable.

It is a species of writing somewhat akin to autobiography or firelight conversation; where the writer takes the reader entirely into his confidence, and chats pleasantly with him on topics that may be as widely apart as the immortality of the soul and the proper colour of a necktie.

Byron was especially fascinated by the firelight dance and song of the robber band, which he describes and reproduces in Childe Harold.

José came out of the shadows and stood with the firelight dancing on his face and picking out the glittery places on his jacket, where was the braid.

Finally, the kitchen-firelight glistens on a splendid display of copper flagons, all of generous capacity, and one of them about as big as a half-barrel; the smaller vessels contain the customary allowance of ale, and the larger one is filled with that foaming liquor on four festive occasions of the year, and emptied amain by the jolly brotherhood.

How it moaned and mocked and muttered At the cottage window, shuttered, Whence there streamed Fitful flecks of firelight mild: And within, a mother smiled, Singing softly to her child As there dinned Round the gabled roof and rafter Long and loud the shout and laughter Of the wind, The wild November wind.

The firelight streaming over her red curls made them shine like burning embers, until it seemed as if some of the fire had escaped from the grate and was playing around her face.