Why “white”?
9. A thing of doom not lightly reconciled.
What does “reconciled” modify? What is this figure called?
14. Old Hugh stared long upon the pictured blaze,
What were the pictures Hugh saw in the blaze? Would you like to know more of Hugh’s past? Why does not the author tell us more concerning it?
17. The veil was rent, and briefly men discerned
What “veil”?
19. Beneath the still gray smoldering of him.
What figure in “still gray smoldering”? Was Hugh a good fighter? A man whose anger was to be feared?