1 advancing into the light of the fire.
2 The man jumped up furiously and pointed to the fire.
3 But Joe said it didn't matter and made her sit down by the fire.
4 When I came downstairs again I found Mrs. Mercer sitting at the fire.
5 A denuded room came into view and the fire lost all its cheerful colour.
6 Old Cotter was sitting at the fire, smoking, when I came downstairs to supper.
7 The fire was nice and bright and on one of the side-tables were four very big barmbracks.
8 Mr. O'Connor shook his head in sympathy, and the old man fell silent, gazing into the fire.
9 When he went in by the side-door he found the kitchen empty and the kitchen fire nearly out.
10 Not long before, when she had been laid up for a day, he had read her out a ghost story and made toast for her at the fire.
11 The moist blue eyes blinked at the fire and the moist mouth fell open at times, munching once or twice mechanically when it closed.
12 So Maria let him have his way and they sat by the fire talking over old times and Maria thought she would put in a good word for Alphy.
13 The old man watched him attentively and then, taking up the piece of cardboard again, began to fan the fire slowly while his companion smoked.
14 Had he not been dead I would have gone into the little dark room behind the shop to find him sitting in his arm-chair by the fire, nearly smothered in his great-coat.
15 The old man left the hearth and, after stumbling about the room returned with two candlesticks which he thrust one after the other into the fire and carried to the table.
16 When the dome was thinly covered his face lapsed into darkness but, as he set himself to fan the fire again, his crouching shadow ascended the opposite wall and his face slowly re-emerged into light.
17 Mr. O'Connor had been engaged by Tierney's agent to canvass one part of the ward but, as the weather was inclement and his boots let in the wet, he spent a great part of the day sitting by the fire in the Committee Room in Wicklow Street with Jack, the old caretaker.
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