The fire itself peered out sulkily from the black bars of the
grate, and seemed resolved not to burn the fresh deposit of black coals
at the top, but to take this as a good time to remember that those coals
had been bought in the summer at five dollars a ton,--under price, mind
you,--when poor people, who cannot buy at advantage, but must get their
firing in the winter, would then have given nine or ten dollars for
them. And so (glowered the fire), I am determined to think of that
outrage, and not to light them, but to go out myself, directly! And
the fire got into such a spasm of glowing indignation over the injury,
that it lit a whole tier of black coals with a series of little
explosions, before it could cool down, and sent a crimson gleam over
the moody figure of its owner in the easy-chair, and over the solemn
furniture, and into the shadowy corner filled by the ghost.
The spectre did not move when Dr. Renton arose and lit the chandelier.
It stood there, still and gray, in the flood of mellow light.
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