000-damag | dance-heele | hem-peasa | pecki-state | stati-zooph
Chapter
501 IX | wanting; neither song, nor dance, nor fun of any sort—nothing
502 IX | dared to accompany those dances with the music of his bagpipes.~“
503 XII | awful secret, which she dares not reveal, weighs on her
504 III | will guide you, and yet I daresay you could find your way
505 IV | said his father, his brow darkening.~“I think, father,” returned
506 IX | lamps, spring forward, and dart through the opening, was
507 IX | description of him and the date on which he left Edinburgh;
508 XIV | red became fiery, daylight dawned. Nell now glanced towards
509 XVIII| no token of existence.~By daybreak the entire population of
510 XIV | no eye could endure the dazzling splendor;~it was as though
511 IX | false step would entail a deadly fall, through this space
512 XII | had you been down there, dearie?” inquired Madge.~Nell made
513 X | life— well, it was not too dearly bought.”~“No, Jack, it was
514 XVIII| all felt they owed a large debt of gratitude to these bold
515 XIII | to me it would seem like deceiving her, if I led her to decide
516 IX | Lord Provost.~There his declaration was received. His account
517 XVIII| collected aspect. She had declined every ornament of dress,
518 XVIII| which had been handsomely decorated for the occasion.~The electric
519 X | Loch Malcolm. A chapel, dedicated to St. Giles, overlooked
520 XVI | surrounding country. The evil deeds of such men would certainly,
521 IV | returned the old overman, his deep-set eyes gleaming strangely.~
522 XVII | more savage in temper the deeper the Dochart pit— his pit!—
523 XIII | eyes flashing through the deepest darkness, come cautiously
524 XIV | Harry, who clasped it, how deeply she was affected by the
525 XI | his knife in one hand. He defended himself and the child as
526 VIII | Had someone an interest in defending the new coal field against
527 XVI | would have continued her defense; but the engineer stopped
528 I | been explored before the definite cessation of the works.
529 XII | conversation of Harry, from whom by degrees she learnt truths concerning
530 XVIII| explosion was even for a moment delayed.~Silfax, gazing upwards
531 XIV | those fine autumn days so delicious on the sea coast.~A soft,
532 XVII | imprisonment, and then our deliverance, brought about by the kind
533 XI | that passage, another hand delivered us! I shall not soon forget
534 XII | afterwards led to them their deliverers, they never would have escaped
535 IX | evidently just an optical delusion, aided by a good deal of
536 XVI | will, and to explain it demands every effort of thought
537 XVI | Jack Ryan, that the evil demon of the mine revenges himself
538 XVI | was rather reserved than demonstrative. As soon as day broke, she
539 XII | here is the mouth of the den. As to its occupants, the
540 XII | right. Had these mysterious denizens of the pit abandoned it,
541 XVII | that she could not bear to denounce her grandfather. What a
542 XVI | concealing themselves in dens and caves, go forth to rob
543 IV | pit. Owing to its lesser density, the warm air was drawn
544 XIII | deserved it. The maiden depended on no one else, and had
545 XVI | to conceive that the most depraved human being could, single-handed,
546 VIII | from me even in jest to depreciate the New Aberfoyle mine by
547 IV | desire?~But at heart he felt depressed. He missed the former animation,
548 XVII | I told you his mind was deranged— that he had a right to
549 IV | coal (HOUILLE) is really derived from the farrier Houillos,
550 XI | exists a natural shaft which descends perpendicularly into the
551 XVIII| match into the water, and, describing a wide circle, flew downwards,
552 XV | immortalized by the poetical descriptions of Walter Scott,” exclaimed
553 V | dismal crypt, after the desertion of the Dochart pit. Perhaps
554 IV | we may use this word to designate a vast and dark excavation.
555 XVI | intentions seeming specially designed to injure Harry. Starr forbade
556 XIII | it seemed as if the most desirable companion in the world had
557 XVII | clear; I should be the most despicable creature on earth did I
558 II | anthracite, which, being almost destitute of volatile matter, contains
559 XIV | your barber’s basin has destroyed all chance of an inspiration.”~
560 VI | there was no other means of destroying the bad gas but by dispersing
561 V | that the stone had become detached from the roof of the gallery;
562 IX | have done had he not been detained by an accident which nearly
563 XIII | minute, Jack!” cried Harry, detaining his companion, who was stepping
564 XIV | perhaps also with some hope of detecting a clue to the mysterious
565 IX | fellow-creatures. The tempest did not deter them. As heroic as they
566 XVIII| from uneasiness. Harry’s determination to follow her wherever she
567 IX | Jack jumped into the train, determining to go first of all to the
568 II | acid, so suitable for the development of the vegetable kingdom,
569 I | usually below it, such as the Devonian red sandstone, but without
570 I | engineers who are gradually devouring the carboniferous subsoil
571 XVII | to act as her loyal heart dictated as her duty.~“Nell!” cried
572 IX | That explains why my chum didn’t come to Irvine.”~And without
573 IX | region, where there was no difference of day or night, Madge was
574 VIII | would one day create serious difficulties? Had someone an interest
575 XII | At last he scrambled with difficulty up a narrow passage which
576 VIII | subsoil of the ocean! let us dig into the center of the globe
577 XII | wonderfully keen, the pupil dilated in a remarkable manner,
578 II | vapors gradually condensed in diluvial rains, which fell as if
579 IX | The space continued to diminish. The bearer of the lamp
580 VIII | successive CRESCENDO and DIMINUENDO could be distinctly heard.~
581 VI | the sailor who leaves his disabled vessel— of the proprietor
582 VI | gesture rather of anger than disappointment.~A cry escaped Harry.~“What’
583 XVI | taken, malevolence would be disarmed, and that Nell would never
584 XIV | was day—the sun arose—his disc seemed to glitter as though
585 XIV | horizon, which could be discerned when the road passed over
586 XVIII| opened without explosion, disclosing a profound abyss, into which
587 X | produced all over the mine by disconnecting the wires.~Below the dome
588 VIII | was not the moment to get discouraged.~Harry, his arms extended,
589 XIII | well as Simon Ford, the discoverers of this rich carboniferous
590 XI | old overman. Jack had been discreet enough to say nothing.~Harry
591 XVI | later, James Starr thus discussed the matter with the old
592 IV | opened in Scotland. Without discussing whether or not the Greeks
593 XVI | little as possible of these discussions. Indeed, she showed no desire
594 IX | the Prince of Wales. He disembarked the same day at Stirling.
595 IX | several days, to his great disgust. However, as soon as he
596 XVIII| dark mantle, his hair was dishevelled, a long white beard fell
597 XVII | creature, in spite of my dislike to it, took such a strong
598 XIX | flew away. He evidently disliked human society as much as
599 XII | villains had been finally dislodged from the mine, and that,
600 V | continuing to inhabit the dismal crypt, after the desertion
601 VI | re-echoed in my heart more dismally than on the rock. Only sandstone
602 I | engineer did not try to dispel the man’s illusion. He patted
603 I | you. Our great family must disperse, and it is not probable
604 VI | destroying the bad gas but by dispersing it in little explosions,
605 XV | beauties of nature to be displayed during the thirty miles’
606 XVI | his schemes in secret; but displays such intelligence as to
607 XIII | towards her, and were far from displeased thereat. They recollected
608 IX | Several men were placed at his disposal, supplied with lamps, picks,
609 VII | facilitated by the fantastic dispositions of the secondary earths;
610 VIII | mysteriously-prepared attacks? These disquieting ideas crowded into their
611 XVIII| Silfax were too serious to be disregarded. It was only too possible
612 XIV | the first sunbeam would dissipate it; to the maiden it exhibited
613 X | a sailor’s are made for distances. But all this while Harry
614 II | chemical operation, a sort of distillation. All the carbon contained
615 XIX | anxieties which had so long distressed them, joyously presided
616 IV | most conspicuous men in the district which supplies so many fine
617 XVIII| the chances of atmospheric disturbance above ground. Everybody,
618 III | their rotten sleepers, now disused, were then constantly ground
619 XVIII| swimming towards Jack Ryan, he dived repeatedly.~But his efforts
620 XVIII| advanced into the chapel. The Divine blessing was first invoked
621 IV | It might be said that he divined the course of seams in the
622 XII | had never been used to its division, and the words signifying
623 VII | composed of several hundred divisions of all sizes and shapes.
624 IX | letters. But though these documents proved that Starr had left
625 XI | attribute the extraordinary doings we want to account for.”~“
626 XII | as in its subterraneous domains. Parties of holiday-makers
627 VII | unfathomable wells, and fifty-seven domes, some of which are more
628 IX | effort of Ryan’s to warn the doomed ship. He now had his back
629 XII | mother would; the old woman doted upon her; in short, she
630 VI | two miners, almost as if doubting their words, decided as
631 XV | slender form of sweet Ellen Douglas.”~“To be sure, Mr. Starr,”
632 XVIII| describing a wide circle, flew downwards, alighting at the maiden’
633 III | to light his companion. A dozen ladders were descended by
634 X | the surface of the county. Dozens of babies, who were born
635 V | actors in the fantastical dramas? The scenery was all ready,
636 XVI | resounded on all sides. Draughts of air rushed along the
637 XII | for the future was to be dreaded from them.~James Starr,
638 XIV | James Starr. “You have been dreaming that you slept, that’s all.”~
639 XII | received, and perhaps never dreamt of quitting it. This family
640 I | just because her milk is dried up! My wife, my boy, and
641 VII | where the holes were to be drilled, they were rapidly bored
642 III | took a road under tall, dripping trees. Wide fields lay on
643 XIII | Now I see what you are driving at. And when may we expect
644 XIV | drowsiness, her eyelids drooped, her head sank on Harry’
645 IX | getting them to swallow a few drops of brandy. They very soon
646 XIV | length Nell was overcome with drowsiness, her eyelids drooped, her
647 X | crypt—pintails, snipes, ducks, who fed on the fish which
648 XIX | the outer world.”~Will the dwellers in Coal Town ever be called
649 XV | and Hanoverians repeatedly dyed with blood these lonely
650 V | by him into songs, which earned him great applause in the
651 XI | him.”~Harry spoke with an earnestness which strongly impressed
652 II | of the earth.~It was the earthquake period, caused by internal
653 XI | of the mine, you would be easier in your mind.”~“But, Jack,
654 XIV | The maiden turned her eyes eastward. Harry, keeping close beside
655 IV | he exclaimed, his voice echoing under the roof of schist. “
656 XIV | superior brilliancy of the moon eclipses that of stars of the sixth
657 XV | persons of low degree.~“To economize hemp,” remarked James Starr.~
658 XVIII| Ryan laid his hand on the edge of the canoe, the old man,
659 XIII | perfectly able myself to educate the person who is to be
660 V | Two men, however, better educated and with more practical
661 XV | has been compared to an eel on account of its length
662 XVII | new vein of coal. With the egotism of madness, he believed
663 XI | they can’t be made like us, eh?”~“But they ARE just like
664 X | Jack Ryan remark, “It’s eighteen months since they were weaned,
665 XIV | Sir Walter Scott in the eighth chapter of the Heart of
666 XI | faster; a distance of about eighty feet remained to be got
667 XV | more islets, Inveruglas, Eilad-whow, where stand some ruins
668 XV | excitement of the day. A faint ejaculation was all she was able to
669 VIII | long phrases, but in short ejaculations.~It was perhaps imprudent
670 X | continuous currents produced from electro-magnetic machines. When the hour
671 XVIII| attire added to the charming elegance of her appearance. Her hair
672 XII | intelligent, was wanting in many elementary ideas, such as time, for
673 XVIII| depths of the coal mine, and elevated the temperature. The air
674 IV | worked. So early as the eleventh century, William the Conqueror
675 XV | the slender form of sweet Ellen Douglas.”~“To be sure, Mr.
676 | elsewhere
677 XVI | for which we still seek elucidation, although it is no doubt
678 XVI | since he has all this time eluded our vigilance. He must be
679 III | wood. In every direction embankments supplied the place of the
680 XIV | affected by the scene.~“Let us embark now,” said James Starr. “
681 XIV | Holyrood, with its four embattled towers, is not unlike some
682 XIII | a mysterious form always emerge from the gloomier recesses
683 VI | thinking that the continued emission of carburetted hydrogen
684 I | some years already had been employed down below.~James Starr
685 XVI | risk of their lives, by employing engines filled with water
686 XII | comfort? and did it not enable us to find you, Nell, to
687 XIV | many a sad scene has been enacted! The historian can here
688 XIV | along the banks. It was enchanting.~At length Nell was overcome
689 XIV | a splendid carriageway encircling the hill, which we owe to
690 IX | remembered that, in their encounter in the Yarrow shaft, Jack
691 XVI | entrance to the tunnel, they encountered Simon Ford, who had quitted
692 IV | his hopes and regrets. She encouraged him, she urged him on, and
693 XVII | you seemed to think of encroaching upon his, then indeed his
694 IX | Jack, and their companions endeavored to reanimate the engineer
695 IX | they succeeded in their endeavors, although some—and bold
696 | ending
697 XV | azure skies, and all the endless shades of lovely flowers
698 I | clever miner, peculiarly endowed with the instinct of his
699 IV | temperature; the old overman endured neither the heat of summer
700 VI | Harry spoke with such energy that conviction came instantly
701 II | himself from two or three engagements which he had made for the
702 XV | grounded. No efforts of the engine could move her.~The cause
703 XIX | eye, the depths which had engulfed his master?~The history
704 XIV | in the stern of the boat, enjoying its gentle rocking. Occasionally
705 XIV | the sky. Her view was now enlarged, without producing the impression
706 XVII | has deceived me.’ But now, enlightened by all you have taught me,
707 XIV | would prove contagious, and enliven his traveling companions,
708 X | shudder—stories well worthy of enriching the hyperborean mythology.~
709 IX | worm-eaten. A false step would entail a deadly fall, through this
710 XVIII| and night. Any stranger entering the mine was brought before
711 XIII | James Starr continued to entertain a certain amount of apprehension,
712 XIX | joyously presided over the entertainment which followed the ceremony,
713 VIII | a smile at the overman’s enthusiasm; “let us cut our trenches
714 VIII | man? no! but you are so enthusiastic that you carry me away into
715 IX | invisible being wish to entice Sir William and his companions
716 IX | perhaps themselves been enticed. It was hard to say.~The
717 XIV | youthful maiden, hitherto entombed in the massive depths of
718 XVIII| were posted at the various entrances to the mine, with orders
719 XVI | Nell, although, at Harry’s entreaty, these malicious attempts
720 XIII | their son. Harry’s comrades envied his good fortune, but freely
721 IV | and wished to examine the environs of the cottage. The anonymous
722 IV | remarkably healthy, subject to an equable temperature; the old overman
723 XVIII| uneasiness soon more than equaled his own. At length the day
724 XVI | of the works.~They were equally careful of Nell, although,
725 X | distinctly heard during the equinoctial gales. Harry would have
726 IV | mines before the Christian era, whether the French word
727 XVI | was nothing for it but to erase Loch Katrine from the map
728 X | a second habitation was erected in the neighborhood of Simon
729 IX | performing wild strathspeys, especially on dark nights. Jack Ryan,
730 IV | pipe that ventilation was established in the Dochart pit. Owing
731 I | and Simon Ford knew and esteemed each other well. “Good-by,
732 V | permit a human being to evade his pursuit!~Twice in one
733 III | Mr. Starr,” replied Harry evasively, his anxious gaze endeavoring
734 V | great applause in the winter evenings.~But Jack Ryan was not alone
735 XIX | deserved.~As to Simon Ford, the ex-overman of New Aberfoyle, he began
736 XII | strangeness of the story was exaggerated; the affair could not have
737 XV | lake. One may, without much exaggeration, say that the history of
738 XVI | word of the result of their examinations in the mine, so that to
739 III | supplied the place of the excavated veins. Artificial pillars
740 XII | whole future of the new excavations must depend upon it. Renewed
741 XV | length; its width never exceeds two miles. The hills nearest
742 IV | of the earth. He was par excellence the type of a miner whose
743 IV | whole was washed down with excellent ale, obtained from the best
744 X | which he would not have exchanged for the finest house in
745 III | struggle, and consequently an exciting life.”~“The miners of Alva
746 IX | surprised at hearing Jack Ryan exclaim, “Here are bits of the ladders,
747 XIV | but her eyelids could not exclude the glare, and she pressed
748 XI | What wonder then, that excursionists from Stirling came in considerable
749 IX | James Starr had sent him, excusing himself from being present
750 VI | have never seen him in the exercise of his duty.”~“Indeed, Mr.
751 X | echoes of New Aberfoyle exerted their strong lungs to answer
752 VIII | They met with no noxious exhalations, nor did any chasm bar the
753 I | professional men for the exhaustion of coal-mines was far distant
754 IX | this superstitious way of explaining the facts.~The inquiry was
755 IX | seen from that time! That explains why my chum didn’t come
756 XVI | world.~The accident was explicable when it was ascertained
757 V | reports, as if some miner had exploded a charge of dynamite. The
758 XI | groundless. Harry would expose himself to very great danger,
759 V | his father had ever been exposed to any act of violence.
760 XVI | countenance agitated, her features expressing the utmost horror. Unable
761 XVI | she could not restrain expressions of child-like joy, very
762 II | working. In the region which extends between Edinburgh and Glasgow,
763 I | scarcity. There were still extensive mines to be worked in the
764 III | produce it at will. Though our external forests grow incessantly
765 IX | hour at the Yarrow shaft.~Externally nothing was changed. The
766 III | being at the mouth of some extinct volcano.~When the mine was
767 IX | easily as possible, by just extinguishing the light and retreating
768 VIII | and if it costs little to extract it from the mine, it will
769 IV | convicts at the work of extracting the precious combustible.
770 XI | although icy cold at the extremities, there was some vital heat
771 X | transparent waters swarmed with eyeless fish, and to which the engineer
772 I | CONTRADICTORY LETTERS~To Mr. F. R. Starr, Engineer, 30
773 V | contingent of legends and fables to this mythological repertory.
774 VII | mine would be singularly facilitated by the fantastic dispositions
775 III | machines, steamers, gas factories; certainly, that would have
776 XI | his convulsive grasp was failing, he was seized by the men,
777 II | these rich treasure fields? Fain would he hope it was so.~
778 III | hair, rather chestnut than fair, the natural grace of his
779 XVII | calling on Harfang, which faithfully stayed by me, to follow
780 IX | most ancient and the most famed ruins on this part of the
781 X | of New Aberfoyle became familiar to all the members of the
782 XII | food; she was evidently famished. It was impossible to say
783 XV | themselves.~“Here we are on this famous lake,” said James Starr. “
784 V | and other actors in the fantastical dramas? The scenery was
785 I | like the body of a huge fantastically-shaped mastodon, from which all
786 XIII | plunge into the depths.”~“Fare ye well. Jack!” returned
787 III | either side, around isolated farms. In one field a herd of
788 IV | really derived from the farrier Houillos, who lived in Belgium
789 VIII | would no doubt have gone farther still, if they had not suddenly
790 VI | place at the very end of the farthest gallery in its western part,
791 XII | stony prison. Nell became a fashionable wonder without knowing it.
792 I | Starr’s ideas were boiling fast.~But suddenly an unexpected
793 XI | me to that shaft. I will fasten myself to a long rope, by
794 IX | had before been credulous, fastening ropes round their waists,
795 VIII | is shining! We have here fat coal, rich in bituminous
796 VI | explosion occurred without being fatal, and, by often renewing
797 IV | his best odes, shared the fate of all the good things in
798 VIII | we shall fall into some fathomless pit.”~“Let us rest awhile,
799 IX | becoming less. Could it be fatigued, or did this invisible being
800 IX | party.~It was a long and fatiguing chase. The lantern seemed
801 V | listening if it would return a favor-able sound. So long as the soundings
802 III | miners of Alva have been more favored than the miners of Aberfoyle,
803 XI | on the level ground.~The fearful strain of anxiety removed,
804 XI | still breathed, but so very feebly that Harry expected it to
805 IX | brave in order to save their fellow-creatures. The tempest did not deter
806 XV | the land of Rob Roy and Fergus MacIvor!—the scenery immortalized
807 IX | a week afterwards to the festivities at Irvine. Harry had accepted
808 XII | her interference.~It was a fete-day. The miners made holiday
809 XI | paused, hovered, and dashed fiercely down upon Harry, who could
810 XIV | outlines of the county of Fife, while beneath the spectator
811 XIX | You would like a couple of fifties, would you, Mr. Simon?”
812 VII | unfathomable wells, and fifty-seven domes, some of which are
813 XV | Nell listened, but these fighting stories made her sad. Why
814 V | supernatural in the Dochart pit figured Jack Ryan, Harry’s friend.
815 XIV | coast.~A soft, transparent film of vapor lay along the horizon;
816 XVI | CHAPTER XVI A FINAL THREAT~ON that day, in the
817 X | not have exchanged for the finest house in Prince’s Street,
818 IX | Look there, there!”~His finger was pointing to a tolerably
819 XVIII| husband, and—”~Before he could finish the sentence, a prodigious
820 XVI | Simon Ford and Madge, having finished their dinner, were resting
821 X | Harry would have been a first-rate guide to these natural catacombs,
822 XIV | Granton lay two or three fishing boats; they rocked gently
823 XII | past life brought on such fits of violent emotion, that
824 VI | young, in spite of your five-and-fifty years, to have seen that.
825 IX | the wind like a luminous flag, it seemed sometimes to
826 VIII | air, as if caused by the flapping of invisible wings. The
827 XIII | strange being, with eyes flashing through the deepest darkness,
828 VI | rather blue at its outline, flickered over the rock like a Will-o’-
829 XII | its depth can see! Shades flit by, which one longs to follow;
830 XV | the end of a light pier, floated a small steamboat, named,
831 X | guide-books, and visitors flocked to see it.~It is needless
832 XVI | one had perished in the flood of water which had descended
833 XVI | was, would be completely flooded. Not a single inhabitant
834 XVI | is to be overwhelmed, the floods will rush faster than you
835 III | and set foot on the lowest floor of the pit.~From the bottom
836 VI | jet, but with a continuous flow.~An hour after leaving the
837 XV | endless shades of lovely flowers and plants.~The railway
838 XIV | Harry, “it is a great river flowing towards the sea, and soon
839 XIV | tide is full; the sea water flows up the river as far as this,”
840 XVIII| head.~At that moment a man flung himself into the waters
841 IX | lost her reckoning in the fog, had taken this flame on
842 XVIII| the canoe, the old man, foiled in his purpose of revenge,
843 III | those in a child’s toy sheep fold.~The Yarrow shaft was situated
844 IX | considering for some time, with folded arms, and longing to be
845 IV | tastes. Yes, they were quite fond of their cottage, buried
846 IX | ascertain if the ground bore any footprints, which could be attributed
847 IV | there still. His son Harry foraged for the subterranean housekeeping;
848 XVII | necessary, we shall keep you by force. Do you think we could be
849 XI | Harry,” said he, “if I am forced to agree with you in certain
850 III | that some day these two forces will be more completely
851 V | the primary formation, the Fords were agreed that the search,
852 XVI | from the most uncomfortable forebodings.~It was perfectly evident
853 IX | carried a white one on her foremast, a green on the starboard
854 I | Ford, one of the former foremen of the Aberfoyle mines,
855 XII | penetrated this mystery. He foresaw that the whole future of
856 XIV | the horizon be? Is it a forest on fire?”~“No, it is the
857 III | that nature has shown more forethought by forming our sphere principally
858 XVII | mortal fear of you all. Ah, forgive me! I assure you, for many
859 XVII | soul incapable of mercy or forgiveness, and no mortal can say to
860 VI | mixture of inflammable gases, forms a detonating mixture as
861 XVII | think of the man who could forsake the noble girl whose words
862 I | their useless shafts and forsaken galleries. This was exactly
863 II | the contrary, lignite and fossil wood, substances in which
864 VII | he.~“Yes! beware of the foul air!” said Simon.~A quarter
865 X | piers of a bridge. So was founded Coal Town, situated under
866 VIII | need never be afraid of foundering.”~“I won’t tease you, then,
867 XII | never have tinged, and the fragile, slender figure, gave her
868 III | but no cinders nor even fragments of coal were to be seen.
869 XIV | said James Starr; “it is fragrant with all the scents of the
870 XVI | murmuring this name, her whole frame shuddering with fear and
871 XV | extended like a picture framed between Ben An and Ben Venue.
872 X | without ceremony, in his frank and hearty way. Old Madge
873 XVI | directions; whole families in frantic haste rushed towards the
874 XV | lovely Scottish scenery is fraught. Numerous small isles and
875 V | and deep coal mine for the freaks of fairies, elves, goblins,
876 XV | They say that it never freezes. I know nothing about that,
877 XVII | secret passages I formerly frequented with him. He is certain
878 IX | fire-maidens had the reputation of frequenting the ruins of the old castle
879 XI | But Harry began to feel a fresher air rising from beneath,
880 II | pudding-stone, schist, compact or friable sandstone, gravel and stones,
881 XI | it is my belief that the friendly person, whom you will persist
882 VII | that limit, on the very frontier of the new mine? That was
883 XVIII| search for proof of this was fruitless, and the continued strain
884 XVI | death.~But when the foremost fugitives reached the entrance to
885 XVIII| stood there, prepared to fulfill his last dreadful threat—
886 IX | his wounds. Singing in the fullness of his heart, he awoke the
887 IX | neither song, nor dance, nor fun of any sort—nothing but
888 II | atmosphere, as yet unfit for the function of life, and it may be said
889 VI | full as though it were a funeral. It seemed to me that the
890 XI | narrowing into the shape of a funnel. But Harry began to feel
891 XVII | entirely his own, he became furious and beat me cruelly. I would
892 XI | endeavoring, by pecking furiously, to cut it.~Harry felt overcome
893 III | to the last bit into the furnaces of engines, machines, steamers,
894 V | the mining population must furnish its contingent of legends
895 X | hat, did he penetrate its furthest depths. He explored its
896 XII | speak much. They were in the Gaelic language, which was often
897 XIII | I wish that Nell should gain a real knowledge of the
898 V | from mouth to mouth, and gaining in wonder as they went.~
899 IX | twisted and bent under the gale, on the summit of the old
900 X | heard during the equinoctial gales. Harry would have been a
901 XII | clothed in a miserable garment of coarse woolen stuff,
902 XIX | who still wore mourning garments, returned to the cottage.
903 VI | a mixture of inflammable gases, forms a detonating mixture
904 VI | than one could live in a gasometer full of common gas. Moreover,
905 II | sentinels who stood before its gateways, dressed in the uniform
906 IV | there was no fear that tax gatherers, or rent collectors would
907 VIII | could perhaps find out its general bearing; but without a compass
908 IX | of trouble alone to the generally cheerful mind of Jack Ryan.~
909 VII | it is well known, is only generated in coal seams; therefore
910 XVII | base as to accept of your generous proposal? These threats
911 XIV | of the boat, enjoying its gentle rocking. Occasionally the
912 VII | would well complete the geography of this strange domain.~
913 XIV | seem to her like giants gesticulating wildly. The sound of the
914 XV | Loch Katrine, as those ugly ghosts on Loch Malcolm in the coal
915 XIV | made them seem to her like giants gesticulating wildly. The
916 XV | healthful air. Her eyes learned gladly to know the harmonious varieties
917 XIV | those shining sparks which glance here and there between rents
918 XVIII| Instantly he smashed the glass of his lamp, and, snatching
919 IV | accompanied by a few small glasses of “usquebaugh,” capital
920 IV | overman, his deep-set eyes gleaming strangely.~Harry soon reappeared,
921 XII | hollows, full of indefinite gleams of radiance, lie deep at
922 XV | with blood these lonely glens. Over these scenes shines
923 XIII | Aberfoyle, and silently glide through the darkness?~What
924 XV | them, while between them glimpses could be had of quiet valleys,
925 XIV | arose—his disc seemed to glitter as though he indeed emerged
926 XIV | the boat sailed across a glittering silver field. Little wavelets
927 XIII | form always emerge from the gloomier recesses of New Aberfoyle,
928 XIV | paths, and to show her the glories of nature by a light to
929 XIX | of piper, and in all the glory of full dress, blew up his
930 XI | little better. If you look so glum, you’ll make all these outside
931 VII | Human termites had never gnawed away this part of the Scottish
932 XVII | I was the nursling of a goat, the death of which was
933 XVII | praise Him for His infinite goodness, I said to myself, ‘My grandfather
934 XVI | money or obtains contraband goods only to conceal them!~“Yet
935 IV | asked the engineer.~“The goodwife is in better health than
936 XV | quiet valleys, or wild rocky gorges on the mainland.~“Nell,”
937 III | chestnut than fair, the natural grace of his person, altogether
938 X | supported a spur of the Grampian mountains. This vault served
939 XVII | now you all see that the grandchild of old Silfax can never
940 I | character, not wanting in grandeur.~“My friends,” said the
941 II | as the primitive bed of granitic rock, or, settling together
942 VIII | of our new mine!”~“Heaven grant it!” returned Starr. “As
943 IV | mining of “sea coal” was granted by Henry III. Lastly, towards
944 II | subjected, are found veins of graphite and rich or poor coal. It
945 XVI | machines, with their harsh grating, bored through the masses
946 II | compact or friable sandstone, gravel and stones, the whole of
947 XII | preferred to Jack’s songs the graver conversation of Harry, from
948 VI | was going with it.”~The gravity with which the old man uttered
949 XIV | stood, in the light of the gray dawn, the buildings of the
950 III | hornless cows were quietly grazing; in another sheep with silky
951 XVII | relation but himself, her great-grandfather. It was perfectly evident
952 XII | singing before, admired it greatly; but anyone might see that
953 IV | discussing whether or not the Greeks and Romans made use of coal,
954 VIII | no time to lose. We must grope our way along, like blind
955 VIII | instructions. As he said, by groping carefully, they could not
956 XV | violent shock. She suddenly grounded. No efforts of the engine
957 VII | at first, but gradually growing brighter, and Harry’s voice
958 XIII | were they possibly to be guarded against, without so much
959 IV | faithful companion, his “gude-wife,” to use the Scotch term,
960 IV | who could have possibly guessed enough of my secret?” And
961 X | catacombs, and all that Alpine guides do on their snowy peaks
962 XVI | slammed beneath their violent gusts. In the lower tunnels, trains
963 VII | subterranean county, which, to be habitable, needed only the rays of
964 III | with the measured step habitual to the miner. They were
965 III | twenty. His grave looks, his habitually passive expression, had
966 IV | principal dish consisted of a “haggis,” the national pudding,
967 III | say, half way down, they halted for a few minutes.~“Decidedly,
968 IX | impalpable being can’t be handcuffed. It must be acknowledged
969 IV | answered the engineer, handing him the anonymous letter.~
970 XIV | Lake Malcolm; but the oar, handled ever so lightly by Harry,
971 XIV | towers, is not unlike some handsome country house. But let us
972 XVIII| s chapel, which had been handsomely decorated for the occasion.~
973 XI | cord passing over it should hang down the center of the opening,
974 XI | that’s enough.”~“I’ll be hanged if I don’t feel your melancholy
975 XV | struggles of the Jacobites and Hanoverians repeatedly dyed with blood
976 IX | aid of those on the wreck.~Happily, they succeeded in their
977 XVI | Uneasy suspicions continually harassed their minds. Was their evil
978 XV | of the lake form a little harbor at Luss. Nell could for
979 III | have been mistaken. Lean harder on my arm, Mr. Starr. Use
980 III | mine, he was strong and hardy, as well as brave and good.
981 XV | learned gladly to know the harmonious varieties of color as they
982 X | hastened to leave the plow and harrow, and résumé the pick and
983 XVI | perforating machines, with their harsh grating, bored through the
984 IV | quite happy above ground. He hasn’t the true miner’s blood
985 IX | was unlike Harry not to hasten to the farm and see how
986 XIX | bird seemed to remember and hate him for having carried off
987 XV | answered James Starr; “see how haughtily its peak rises from amidst
988 IX | who composed his crew were hauled up, safe and sound, on the
989 VI | that mysterious being who haunts our domain, for whom I have
990 XVIII| with the “snood,” the usual head-dress of Scottish maidens.~All
991 IX | example, quickly overtook the head-most of the party.~It was a long
992 XVIII| of revenge, cast himself headlong into the waters of the lake.~“
993 X | it is to you, scarcely healed of your wounds— to you,
994 XV | ease inhaled the free and healthful air. Her eyes learned gladly
995 IV | The place was remarkably healthy, subject to an equable temperature;
996 II | settling together in a heap, they formed a solid mass.~
997 I | the Dochart pit, formerly heaped with coal from the mine.~
998 XV | thicket of oaks, birches, and heather, which clothe the lower
999 I | fifty-five years weighed no more heavily than if they had been forty.
1000 IX | broken for an instant; she heeled over on her side and lay
|