Chapter
1 I | constituted the machinery of a mine had been brought up from
2 I | its depths. The exhausted mine was like the body of a huge
3 I | the workmen quitted the mine, in which they had lived
4 I | courageous population of the mine. Overmen, brakemen, putters,
5 I | heaped with coal from the mine.~Many of these families
6 I | existed for generations in the mine of old Aberfoyle; they were
7 I | through the veins of the mine! We shall keep it, as the
8 I | You have lived in this mine, which your hands have emptied.
9 I | re not going to leave the mine, our good old nurse, just
10 I | father’s hand, and left the mine.~All this had taken place
11 I | therefore abandoned the mine with the absolute conviction
12 II | where does he live?”~“In the mine.”~“What! In the Dochart
13 II | family never left the old mine since the cessation of the
14 II | understand that! His native mine! He did not like to abandon
15 III | among his comrades in the mine. His regular features, his
16 III | days to the work of the mine, he was strong and hardy,
17 III | after being fed from the mine itself; no blast-pipe was
18 III | feelings; he, a child of the mine, whose whole life had been
19 III | extinct volcano.~When the mine was being worked, ingenious
20 III | which he lighted. In the mine, now empty of coal, escapes
21 III | live all one’s life in the mine.”~“Right, Harry. Formerly,
22 III | not see. Since I left the mine, my eyes have not been accustomed
23 III | now, as you have left the mine?”~“I am working on the Melrose
24 IV | preferred remaining in the mine, where they were happy together,
25 IV | in the depths of the coal mine as a hydroscope reveals
26 IV | connected with that of his mine. He had lived there from
27 IV | fixed idea. “No, no! the mine is not exhausted!” he repeated.~
28 IV | which would restore the mine to its past splendor. Yes,
29 IV | a few months in the coal mine of Aberfoyle! They would
30 IV | life in the old Aberfoyle mine.~Harry had been rather silent.
31 IV | would prefer her clan to our mine! Harry wouldn’t do it!”~“
32 V | who but some spirit of the mine? This, at least, was the
33 V | than a dark and deep coal mine for the freaks of fairies,
34 V | had their origin in the mine, from one pit to another.
35 V | would not have abandoned the mine to the imps and fairies.
36 V | destroy this portion of the mine? Thus he questioned, and
37 V | an unknown being in the mine seems impossible, and yet
38 V | the southwest end of the mine, with a large lantern in
39 V | superstitious fellows in the mine had seen these lights, they
40 VI | Starr.~“Ay! You know the mine well still.”~“Well, Simon,”
41 VI | me that the soul of the mine was going with it.”~The
42 VI | exclaimed. “No! The old mine was not dead. It was not
43 VI | excursions to the west end of the mine. Fire, which suddenly went
44 VI | last ‘monk’ working in the mine. He was called so because
45 VII | all the apparatus of the mine, deserted for ten years,
46 VII | cried Simon Ford. “The old mine will grow young again, like
47 VII | black blood of this strange mine had circulated through their
48 VII | that the working of this mine would be singularly facilitated
49 VII | sojourn in the deserted mine, an uncommon pertinacity
50 VII | very frontier of the new mine? That was all chance, which
51 VIII | communication with the new mine. They found themselves at
52 VIII | transported into some ancient mine, of the existence of which
53 VIII | the ventilation of the new mine would be easily managed.
54 VIII | their entrance into the mine.~The gallery ended in an
55 VIII | explore the old Aberfoyle mine for whole days together.”~“
56 VIII | small part of this marvelous mine that we have explored seems
57 VIII | is taken out of our new mine!”~“Heaven grant it!” returned
58 VIII | little to extract it from the mine, it will not sell at a less
59 VIII | our entrance into the new mine?”~“No, my lad,” replied
60 VIII | depreciate the New Aberfoyle mine by an unjust comparison!
61 VIII | After that, it is the old mine. We know that, and it won’
62 IX | still at the bottom of the mine? I must find out!” and Ryan,
63 IX | could the inhabitants of the mine get up. There was now no
64 IX | made without delay in the mine. Several men were placed
65 IX | fresh exploration of the mine, undertaken by the engineer,
66 IX | in unknown regions of the mine; narrow passages crossed
67 X | mines of New Aberfoyle.~No mine in any country, either in
68 X | easily produced all over the mine by disconnecting the wires.~
69 X | which the prosperity of the mine enabled the company to offer
70 X | were supposed to haunt the mine, and the two, when alone,
71 X | found still alive in the mine!”~“Rubbish, no!” broke in
72 X | corresponded with what point of the mine. He knew that above this
73 X | could have done in the dark mine by the wonderful power of
74 XI | air in the recesses of the mine?~The electric discs shed
75 XI | account of the goblins of the mine, you would be easier in
76 XI | existence of an interest in this mine in strong opposition to
77 XI | thinking, was concealed in the mine. For some reason, known
78 XI | a spirit, exists in the mine as certainly as the criminal
79 XI | distant recesses of the mine.”~“But,” inquired Jack, “
80 XI | intervention of the spirits of the mine?”~But, notwithstanding his
81 XI | in the lowest part of the mine.~The cord continued to unwind.
82 XII | away down there—in the mine—were you all alone?”~“Alone!
83 XII | who must still be in the mine, we’ll catch him some day.”~
84 XII | never looked beyond the mine, and that these somber depths
85 XII | the discovery of the coal mine; and although that was three
86 XII | natural opening into the coal mine. “Well,” said he, “here
87 XII | beings are who hide in the mine, they reach the surface
88 XII | finally dislodged from the mine, and that, as to Nell, they
89 XII | it remained unworked, the mine had been a safe enough place
90 XII | in the depths of the coal mine, you never once have been
91 XII | to live altogether in the mine; communication was then
92 XII | deep at the bottom of the mine. And then the voice-like
93 XII | known every turn of the new mine.”~“Did you never leave it?”~“
94 XII | have been as far as the old mine of Aberfoyle.”~“So you knew
95 XIII | has been brought up in the mine, is just the very wife for
96 XIII | never been outside this coal mine in the very depths of which
97 XIII | all her life in the coal mine. Do you understand me, Jack?”~“
98 XIII | in the depths of a coal mine?”~Well! now it seemed as
99 XIII | the electric lights in the mine were extinguished, and all
100 XIV | necessary for me to leave the mine at all, even for these few
101 XIV | continue your life in the coal mine, like old ~Simon, and Madge,
102 XV | gloomy region of the coal mine. Shall you not pine for
103 XVI | stay so long away from the mine without feeling homesick?~
104 XVI | cataract rushing down into the mine. The old people rose hastily.
105 XVI | very lowest bed of the vast mine, and its only ultimate effect
106 XVI | descended to the depths of the mine never yet penetrated by
107 XVI | the lowest level of the mine. But that very same evening
108 XVI | enormous fissure into the mine beneath. Of Sir Walter Scott’
109 XVI | ventured to work this rich mine?~At the cottage, some days
110 XVI | that the evil demon of the mine revenges himself on us for
111 XVI | of pride in his beloved mine; “for nothing less than
112 XVI | their examinations in the mine, so that to the rest of
113 XVII | being, prowling about the mine, always accompanied by a
114 XVII | orphan girl born in the mine, who had no relation but
115 XVII | some secret abyss of the mine.~The old overman, full of
116 XVII | strong, and he knew the mine as no one else— at any rate,
117 XVII | the last vein of our old mine’?”~“Ah! there it is,” replied
118 XVII | that he had a right to the mine of Aberfoyle; so he became
119 XVII | and defend. Living in the mine, and wandering about day
120 XVII | robbers of his own coal mine would just drive him wild
121 XVII | when Harry’s hand touched mine. Alone with my grandfather
122 XVII | most solitary depths of the mine. I say WITH my grandfather,
123 XVII | procure from outside the mine; but I can dimly recollect
124 XVII | regarded your abode in the mine with a very evil eye—not
125 XVII | succeed in reaching the new mine, you should assuredly perish.
126 XVIII| various entrances to the mine, with orders to keep strict
127 XVIII| Any stranger entering the mine was brought before James
128 XVIII| The examination of the mine was carried on minutely.
129 XVIII| men, by whose means the mine had been restored to its
130 XVIII| penetrated the depths of the coal mine, and elevated the temperature.
131 XVIII| enormous crypt of the very mine itself.~But the inhabitants
132 XVIII| whole atmosphere of the mine.~James Starr and several
133 XVIII| utmost alarm, “Fly from the mine! Fly instantly from the
134 XVIII| Fly instantly from the mine!”~“Now for the fire-damp!
135 XVIII| beneath the ruins of the coal mine.~As he stood ready to accomplish
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