Crossword-Solution: CLOSES 6 letters, 49 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

When this crack closes no smoke can reach them, and if we hasten to extinguish the flames I believe they will be safe.” “Go, then, yourself and take these others with you,” I replied.

And his figure--the lithe, buoyant figure I had met in the woods of Zenda--the dull, inert mass I had left in the cellar of the hunting-lodge--seemed to rise, double-shaped, before me, and to come between us, thrusting itself in even where she lay, pale, exhausted, fainting, in my arms, and yet looking up at me with those eyes that bore such love as I have never seen, and haunt me now, and will till the ground closes over me--and (who knows?) perhaps beyond.

The smoke vanished, the vast silence closed upon the passing echoes of the rifle as the ocean closes upon a ship's wake.

And it was even as Ralph had seen it pictured in the arras of the hall of the Castle of Abundance; a little house built after the fashion of houses in his own land of the west; the thatch was trim, and the windows and doors were unbroken, and the garth was whole, and the goats feeding therein, and the wheat was tall and blossoming in the little closes, where as he had looked to see all broken down and wild, and as to the house, a mere grass-grown heap, or at the most a broken gable fast crumbling away.

Only her memory lives to-night -- God in His wisdom her young life closes; Over her grave may the turf be light, Cover her coffin with roses white -- She was always fond of the big white roses.