The cylinder once lighted, the hydrogen in the spiral and in the concave cone becomes heated, and rapidly ascends through the
pipe that leads to the upper part of the balloon.
"Do ye own yourself beaten at the
pipes, then," said Robin, "that ye seek to change them for the sword?"
He rises unsteadily from the bed, lays the
pipe upon the hearth- stone, draws back the ragged curtain, and looks with repugnance at his three companions.
"He has been in the habit of lighting his
pipe at lamps and gas-jets.
'"Not quite," rejoined the baron; "I must finish this
pipe first."
Mr Willet looked first at her, then at his son, then back again at Dolly, and then made an ineffectual effort to extract a whiff from his
pipe, which had gone out long ago.
While filling her
pipe the old woman continued to gaze with almost motherly affection at the figure in the corner.
It occurred to Alban that the speediest way of pacifying her might be by means of the
pipe. Mere words would exercise no persuasive influence over that bewildered mind.
Later on in the evening a traveler's horse was brought in by the second hostler, and while he was cleaning him a young man with a
pipe in his mouth lounged into the stable to gossip.
And thereupon he sat down across the brandy cask and began to fill a
pipe.
He uttered little crooning noises, alternating with sharp cries akin to pain, half-ecstatic, half-petulant, as he drew a black clay
pipe from a hole in his ear-lobe, and into the bowl of it, with trembling fingers, untwisted and crumbled the cheap leaf of spoiled Virginia crop.
At length some supper, which had been warming up, was placed on the table, and then old Lobbs fell to, in regular style; and having made clear work of it in no time, kissed his daughter, and demanded his
pipe.