"You'll think differently when they have the handling of you.

I'm glad to be going, for where there's one fire there are apt to be more; and I am a Christian, no matter who's not! Let who will burn, I'll not!" He picked up one bundle and, carrying it out, raised his voice.

A man, who had shrunk, it seemed, from entering the house, showed his face in the light which streamed from the door.

To this fellow he gave the bundle, and shouldering the other, he went heavily out, leaving the door wide open behind him.
Claude strode to it and closed it; but not so quickly that he had not a glimpse of three or four pairs of eyes staring in out of the darkness; eyes so curious, so fearful, so quickly and noiselessly withdrawn--for even while he looked, they were gone--that he went back to the hearth with a shiver of apprehension.
Fortunately, she had not seen them.

She stood where he had left her, in the same attitude of amazement into which Grio's accusation had cast her.