24. Nor might a fire be lit,
Note the shrewdness of Jules in failing to light a fire.
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What shows that Jamie is at the breaking point?
4. And with it lulled the fight, as on a field, etc.
The crisis of the disease.
9. It would soon be o’er, etc.
Jules talks in sentimental vein. Sentimental people are very often cruel.
17. To dig a hole that might conceal a man;
Would Jamie have resented the digging of a grave four days earlier?