We sat for a while , and then I gotgeta match and litlightthe lamp that stood ready on the table , for the half-light began to grow drearydreary, as it is apt to do when one has a short week ago buriedburythe hope of one ’s life .
The Widow Douglas she tooktakeme for her son , and allowed she would sivilize me ; but it was rough living in the house all the time , considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways ; and so when I could n't stand it no longer I litlightout .
Most of the shops lightedlighttwo hours before their time -- as the gasgasseems to know , for it has a haggard and unwilling look .
Mrs. Hall litlightthe fire and leftleavehim there while she wentgoto prepare him a meal with her own hands .
Mr. Pontellier finally litlighta cigar and began to smokesmoke, letting the paper dragdragidly from his hand .
They said nothing , but Sir Henry slowly filledfillhis pipe and litlightit with a burning ember .
He lightedlighta match nonchalantly , by the artfully simple method of pinchingpinchthe head of it with his fingernails , leanedleannegligently against the wall of the bunk-house , and regardedregardthe group incuriously while he smokedsmoke.
When he pausedpauseby the clerk 's desk on his way out , to lightlighthis cigar , the day clerk , who had just come on duty , glancedglanceat the register and readreadthe last entry : -- " ' JOHN WARWICK , CLARENCE , SOUTH CAROLINA . '