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

" Maud made a pretty picture as she sat with one shapely foot on the fender of the stove, the firelight dancing on her face and hair.

From the splendid jewels that adorned the fingers twisting together in her lap, the firelight struck coruscant gleams.

" She leaned forward so that the firelight fell upon the pages.

FIRELIGHT IV.

CHAPTER III FIRELIGHT

"Good night, my lambs," she said, and a very few minutes afterwards Eric could see by the firelight that his mother and playmate were asleep.

Eric looking up at her in the starlight saw her hair like pale firelight under her dark hood and her eyes so calm and friendly.

The firelight and candlelight did not reach so far as the walls, but left them in soft darkness.

He imagined Ivra in the room there all alone getting her supper over the fire, bathing in the fountain bath, opening the windows, and at last falling softly to sleep before the firelight faded.

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

Her face was strangely lovely; her eyes shone with tears; and a little golden crucifix on her bosom glittered as the firelight played upon it.

There lay Brooks and Creedon, looking picturesque in their hunting garb, and there was Desmond stealing on tiptoe under the glare of the firelight to secure the mask lantern.

He opened the stove door and from the bunk watched the faint flickerings of the dying firelight on the log walls.

She was not amiss for looks thus, with her long eyelashes lying like a fringe upon her cheeks, her lips open, showing her good white teeth, and the glow of the firelight upon her face; but her attitude and the innocent, happy expression of her features made up a picture which seemed to me mighty pretty.

' Ratsey gave me a questioning look, and I could see a little smile upon his face in the firelight.

The heat of the flames had curled the parchment a little, and he spread it out on his knee, conning it in the firelight.

He split rails, and conned a few books by the firelight in the evening.

There in the firelight stood the venerable forms of the old chairs; the hands that had made their tapestries lay far beneath the soil, the needles with which they wrought were many separate flakes of rust.

The second? Memorize: In the evening I sit near my poker and tongs, And I dream in the firelight's glow,

The youngster was watching the firelight upon the face of Miss Barbara Herndon, and his thoughts were probably in a dream-fed future instead of a dismal past.

Margaret's face was pale as she bent toward him, her lips parted a little, her eyes glinting eerily in the firelight.

In the firelight her hair was an aureole; and her gown, yellow with multitudinous tiny arabesques of black velvet, echoed the glow of her hair to a shade.

The forest pressed round them with its encircling wall; the nearer tree stems gleamed like bronze in the firelight; beyond thatblackness, and, so far as he could tell, a silence of death.

The firelight gleamed under her brows, brought out with unpleasant sharpness the angle of her jaw and touched the bones of her cheek caressingly.