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1001 XIII | you understand me, Jack?”~“Hem!—yes—pretty well. What I
1002 XV | low degree.~“To economize hemp,” remarked James Starr.~
1003 XIX | James Starr and Simon Ford, henceforth free from the anxieties
1004 IV | sea coal” was granted by Henry III. Lastly, towards the
1005 II | substances enclosed in this vast herbal left their impression on
1006 III | isolated farms. In one field a herd of hornless cows were quietly
1007 IX | tempest did not deter them. As heroic as they had before been
1008 IX | rather uneasy. Then, without hesitating, superstitious though he
1009 X | was made head of a gang of hewers.~“That was a good work done,
1010 XII | brushwood which clothed the hill-side.~Nothing was discovered—
1011 XIV | town. Westward rose many hill-tops, soon to be illuminated
1012 XV | the afternoon. The less hilly shores of Loch Katrine westward
1013 XIV | scene has been enacted! The historian can here invoke many a royal
1014 IX | heads to explore these old historical remains, but then they always
1015 XII | admit that his belief in hobgoblins was in a measure weakened.
1016 III | my hand than the spade or hoe. And then, in the old pit,
1017 VI | trembled whilst he tried to hoist the lamp up. “Take my place,
1018 VIII | have you not found the hole which connects New Aberfoyle
1019 XII | fete-day. The miners made holiday on the surface of the county
1020 XII | subterraneous domains. Parties of holiday-makers were moving about in all
1021 XVI | the mine without feeling homesick?~Just then a terrific roaring
1022 XI | Cheer up, old fellow! Do the honors of the place a little better.
1023 VII | examined them carefully, hoping to discover some trace of
1024 VII | winding—these following a horizontal line, those on an incline
1025 III | In one field a herd of hornless cows were quietly grazing;
1026 I | saying, James Starr wrung the horny hand of the oldest miner,
1027 IV | appetite. I came through horrible weather.”~“Ah, it is raining
1028 VII | rumbling of wagons, neighing of horses, creaking of machines! I
1029 IV | our house is not the less hospitable.”~“And how are you, good
1030 IV | grasping the hand which his host held out to him.~“Very well,
1031 IX | closed against them by a hostile hand.~
1032 IV | As the engineer and his hosts were taking their places:~“
1033 I | boil, like a kettle on a hot fire. In some of these brain
1034 XVIII| the day was one of the hottest of the month of August,
1035 IV | the French word for coal (HOUILLE) is really derived from
1036 IV | derived from the farrier Houillos, who lived in Belgium in
1037 IV | foraged for the subterranean housekeeping; as for himself, during
1038 XI | mighty wings, then paused, hovered, and dashed fiercely down
1039 XIII | of the moving machinery.~“Hullo, Jack! Where are you?”~“
1040 XI | Ryan, with all his good humor and usually infectious merriment,
1041 VI | before our good genius, Humphry Davy, invented his safety-lamp?”~“
1042 XVII | idea that you would die of hunger in these horrid places;
1043 IX | them. Ryan was the most hurt, for when with the rope
1044 III | engineer, “that neither hydraulics nor electricity has yet
1045 IV | depths of the coal mine as a hydroscope reveals springs in the bowels
1046 X | worthy of enriching the hyperborean mythology.~Jack thus became
1047 VII | might have lodged all the ichthyosauri, megatheriums, and ptero-dactyles
1048 XI | ascertained that, although icy cold at the extremities,
1049 II | CHAPTER II ON THE ROAD~THE course of
1050 IX | liked. He had not time to be ill.~Jack, therefore, soon got
1051 V | thrown by the hand of some ill-disposed person, it was the first
1052 XVII | added to his rancor and ill-will.”~“To be sure,” said Simon. “
1053 XVI | coiners carried on their illegal practices in some distant
1054 XIII | thing here below.”~Thus, not illogically, reasoned James Starr. He
1055 XIII | knowledge of the upper world. To illustrate my meaning, Jack, suppose
1056 V | fields are peopled with imaginary beings, either good or bad,
1057 X | that, Jack!”~We may easily imagine how soon this domain of
1058 IX | But from this adventure he imbibed a more lively sentiment
1059 X | laboring village— in that imitating Simon Ford, who never wished
1060 XIX | Madge, who liked the idea immensely herself.~“And after that,
1061 XIV | and beyond these, into the immensity of the sea, the infinity
1062 XVIII| chapel, and perceived the imminence of the danger, now rushed
1063 XV | these rocks still echo the immortal names of Rob Roy and McGregor
1064 XV | Fergus MacIvor!—the scenery immortalized by the poetical descriptions
1065 V | single day, obstinate and immovable in their convictions, the
1066 III | Guided by his father, and impelled by his own inclinations,
1067 IX | to be able to pierce the impenetrable darkness. Then it occurred
1068 X | and nothing but the most imperative necessity ever caused him
1069 XII | supported the dome. This imperfect light suited Nell, to whose
1070 XVI | Yet it is clear that an implacable enemy has sworn the ruin
1071 VIII | away into the regions of impossibility! Come, let us return to
1072 IV | perceive the bed becoming impoverished, and to see the hour approaching
1073 XIII | narrow as to appear to be impracticable?~Why should the strange
1074 II | watery vapors, and copiously impregnated with carbonic acid. The
1075 XVII | cutting; hence, in short, our imprisonment, and then our deliverance,
1076 VIII | ejaculations.~It was perhaps imprudent to venture so far into the
1077 V | abandoned the mine to the imps and fairies. For ten years,
1078 XVI | not fail to appear wholly inadmissible.~A few days later, the three
1079 II | as an hydraulic press of incalculable power would have done.~Thus
1080 XVI | necessity. The lamp used by the incendiary was found; but no clew whatever
1081 IV | here, sheltered from the inclemencies of the weather? Your ladies
1082 III | and impelled by his own inclinations, he had early begun his
1083 VII | horizontal line, those on an incline or running obliquely in
1084 II | of time, periods of which include millions of years, these
1085 I | made president. He was also included amongst the most active
1086 VII | journey there and back, including the time for the working—
1087 II | terrestrial crust, thin and incompletely hardened, allowed it to
1088 XVI | our works?”~“It is quite incomprehensible,” replied James Starr. “
1089 I | said Starr, his excitement increasing as the time drew near.~Our
1090 XII | black hollows, full of indefinite gleams of radiance, lie
1091 XIV | noble Firth of Forth was indented by a deep bay, in which
1092 IV | perfectly satisfied to live independent of the outer world, and
1093 XVI | threshold than a cry of indescribable anguish escaped her lips.~
1094 VI | the slight crackling which indicates the presence of a small
1095 XVIII| There was, indeed, every indication that a storm might burst
1096 IX | Fire-Maidens as believe in Harry’s indifference.~Two days after the catastrophe
1097 IX | catastrophe of the MOTALA, and indisputably confirm the truth of the
1098 IV | whose whole existence is indissolubly connected with that of his
1099 IX | it turned its head, the indistinct profile of a human face
1100 XIV | lips murmured a word or two indistinctly; she trembled, became giddy,
1101 III | the more stirring, active, industrial life. The contrast was all
1102 XVIII| despair, marvelled that the inevitable explosion was even for a
1103 XII | believe that, even as an infant, my father or mother ever
1104 XI | his good humor and usually infectious merriment, failed to rouse
1105 II | produced on the surface of the inferior planets, Venus or Mercury,
1106 XVII | and praise Him for His infinite goodness, I said to myself, ‘
1107 II | the quantity of carbon is infinitely less. Between these two
1108 VI | the latter, a mixture of inflammable gases, forms a detonating
1109 XIII | connected with wider interests, influenced him to desire it.~It has
1110 XVI | in the right. The sudden influx of water had rushed to the
1111 IX | And without taking time to inform the President of the Royal
1112 IX | been heard of him.~“Any information concerning him is requested
1113 XVI | If at a future time she informs me of what she has hitherto
1114 III | the mine was being worked, ingenious machines were used in certain
1115 V | proved it by continuing to inhabit the dismal crypt, after
1116 XVI | completely flooded. Not a single inhabitant of New Aberfoyle would escape
1117 VII | production, the place could be inhabited by a whole population. And
1118 VI | a rock. After critically inhaling the air of the cavern, he
1119 XIV | possible that this rapid initiation into the things of the exterior
1120 XVI | seeming specially designed to injure Harry. Starr forbade him
1121 VI | a place filled with this injurious gas, any more than one could
1122 IX | situated about half a mile inland. It was Dundonald Castle.
1123 XV | steep ascent led to the Inn of Stronachlacar, on the
1124 XV | the maiden, raising her innocent eyes to his.~Scarcely had
1125 IX | explaining the facts.~The inquiry was made with great care.
1126 X | know all its most secret ins and outs. He could even
1127 XVII | well as for ours, these insane plots must be put a stop
1128 XVII | grandfather, in his very insanity, is a man of most powerful
1129 IX | then anxiety.~A notice was inserted in the principal newspapers
1130 XII | by Harry, came himself to inspect this curious natural opening
1131 XVII | perfidious, because he wished to inspire me with his own hatred of
1132 IV | This remarkable dish, which inspired the poet Burns with one
1133 XII | Madge. It was clear that she instinctively felt she should remain in
1134 III | examined, as well as the insufficient light would permit, the
1135 XVII | After that my life became insupportable to me. My grandfather completely
1136 VIII | safety lamp, which would insure light for twelve hours.~
1137 XIX | far from the luxury and intemperance of the outer world.”~Will
1138 VI | earth.~James Starr, with intense interest, examined the place
1139 IX | absence? Certainly not.~It was intensely dark all round. The lamps
1140 XIV | instant they increased in intensity, rose color became red,
1141 XIII | Of course he was really interested in the happiness of the
1142 XIII | motive, connected with wider interests, influenced him to desire
1143 XII | believed they owed to her interference.~It was a fete-day. The
1144 II | sun as by the fires of the interior mass. The internal heat
1145 III | there was no necessity for interposing between the flame and the
1146 VIII | Listen!” said Harry, interrupting the old man. All listened,
1147 XVII | The maiden spoke without interruption, for all felt that it was
1148 VII | composed of pudding-stone, interspersed with sandstone and schist,
1149 XII | follow; circles mingle and intertwine, and one could gaze on them
1150 XIX | prevent him. Still, at long intervals, Nell would see the creature
1151 XVI | and everyone counted the intervening days, for everyone suffered
1152 III | Well, we must let this intruder pass,” said James Starr. “
1153 II | terrestrial surface. Here, an intumescence which was to become a mountain,
1154 III | dangers of landslips, fires, inundations, explosions of firedamp,
1155 XVI | himself on us for having invaded his domain.”~Nell was allowed
1156 VI | good genius, Humphry Davy, invented his safety-lamp?”~“Yes,”
1157 XVII | former days, before the invention of the safety-lamp, Simon
1158 XV | the SINCLAIR stopped at Inversnaid.~Leaving Loch Arklet on
1159 III | escaped by this species of inverted siphon.~“I will follow you,
1160 XV | passed a few more islets, Inveruglas, Eilad-whow, where stand
1161 XIV | The historian can here invoke many a royal shade; from
1162 XVIII| Divine blessing was first invoked on all present. Then Harry
1163 XI | powerfully as he held it in his iron grasp, he could feel it
1164 XIV | in the New Town, and the irregular mass of houses, with their
1165 II | another in this slow but irresistible reaction. The vegetable
1166 X | all this while Harry felt irresistibly animated by the hope of
1167 XV | said James Starr, “every island here has its legend, perhaps
1168 XV | characters of mountains and islands.”~Nell listened, but these
1169 XV | fraught. Numerous small isles and islets soon appeared,
1170 III | lay on either side, around isolated farms. In one field a herd
1171 VI | proof?”~“Could fire-damp issue from the bowels of the earth
1172 XVIII| of fire-damp gas which, issuing from that part of the pit,
1173 IV | CHAPTER IV THE FORD FAMILY~TEN minutes
1174 IX | CHAPTER IX THE FIRE-MAIDENS~A WEEK
1175 XV | distance, the struggles of the Jacobites and Hanoverians repeatedly
1176 XVIII| coat of which Bailie Nicol Jarvie himself would have approved.~
1177 VIII | Far be it from me even in jest to depreciate the New Aberfoyle
1178 XVIII| hitherto been blocked up.~Jets and streams of the fire-damp
1179 XIV | branch line to New Aberfoyle joins the railway from Dumbarton
1180 XI | answered Harry. “You are jolly enough for two, I’m sure;
1181 XIV | for Jack Ryan, he was as joyous as a lark rising in the
1182 XIX | so long distressed them, joyously presided over the entertainment
1183 XV | Starr,” replied Jack; “and judging by those, it must be grand.”~“
1184 IX | found a loaf of bread and a jug of water set near them.
1185 XI | Sunday—it was in the month of June—the two friends were walking
1186 XIII | present nothing appeared to justify it. Yet that which had been
1187 XVIII| which shone like fiery kaleidoscopes. At the porch of the chapel
1188 VII | celebrated Mammoth caves of Kentucky. This excavation was composed
1189 I | In some of these brain kettles the ideas bubble over, in
1190 VI | the ‘monk’ was injured or killed in his work, then another
1191 II | Highland regiment, tartan kilt, plaid and sporran complete.
1192 XII | lassie?” she asked, smiling kindly at her.~Nell shook her head
1193 XVII | Aberfoyle come to church and kneel down to pray to God, and
1194 XI | to enter it on hands and knees.~An obstacle speedily arrested
1195 I | carpenters, outside and inside laborers, women, children, and old
1196 X | They rarely left their laboring village— in that imitating
1197 XVII | eye—not that there was any lack of space. His chosen refuge
1198 I | he had not been quite so laconic.~Was it possible that the
1199 III | to do.”~“Ah, I remember a laddie who was always singing.
1200 IX | the Norwegian brig MOTALA, laden with timber, and bound for
1201 IV | inclemencies of the weather? Your ladies who go to Newhaven or Portobello
1202 III | and at an age when most lads are little more than apprentices,
1203 XIV | ray of light attacking the laggards of the night. Beneath the
1204 II | drowned in a sort of immense lagoon, kept continually full by
1205 XV | Jack Ryan, they reached Lambert’s Hotel. There a good breakfast
1206 XII | hardly able to bear the lamp-light in the cottage, glanced
1207 III | every fifty feet by narrow landings. Thirty of these ladders
1208 III | struggle against the dangers of landslips, fires, inundations, explosions
1209 XIV | confused network of streets and lanes, which constitutes Auld
1210 XII | They were in the Gaelic language, which was often spoken
1211 XIII | carboniferous region, shared largely in the profits.~In time
1212 VII | vast ponds, or rather lakes larger than Loch Katrine, lying
1213 XIV | Ryan, he was as joyous as a lark rising in the first beams
1214 XII | caressingly. “How old are you, my lassie?” she asked, smiling kindly
1215 XV | were it but to impress lastingly the recollection of all
1216 IV | was granted by Henry III. Lastly, towards the end of the
1217 XI | without any incident.~No lateral gallery opened from the
1218 X | huge rock, whose foot was laved by the waters of the subterranean
1219 IX | Farm, where every care was lavished on them. Ryan was the most
1220 XIII | returned Harry, himself laying hold of the rising ladder; “
1221 XVI | weak to act openly, and lays his schemes in secret; but
1222 III | himself of some importance, a leader, in fact, among his fellows,
1223 III | must have been mistaken. Lean harder on my arm, Mr. Starr.
1224 II | which fell as if they had leapt from the necks of thousands
1225 XI | large, strong knife in a leather sheath.~Harry advanced to
1226 VI | those of the sailor who leaves his disabled vessel— of
1227 IV | cockyleeky,” a cock stewed with leeks, which merited high praise.
1228 IX | bottom.~Here he put down his leg to feel for the first rung
1229 III | very practical use, and lends itself easily to the various
1230 IX | seeing that the distance lessened, redoubled their efforts.
1231 IV | Dochart pit. Owing to its lesser density, the warm air was
1232 XIV | thus rewarding them for letting him join them. Nell was
1233 XIV | the road passed over open levels—all these things filled
1234 IV | the thirteenth century, a license for the mining of “sea coal”
1235 VII | found, under that enormous lid, an immense excavation,
1236 IX | brought, indeed, very nearly lifeless on to the beach.~The brave
1237 XVIII| become aware that the gas, lighter than the lower atmosphere,
1238 II | found, on the contrary, lignite and fossil wood, substances
1239 XII | she is happy with us. She likes us all— she adores my mother.
1240 XIV | night promised to be so likewise.~On reaching Stirling, Nell
1241 VI | been recently done with lime, leaving on the rock a long
1242 III | principally of sandstone, limestone, and granite, which fire
1243 II | schists, sandstones, and limestones. This the roving waves bore
1244 III | roughly-hewn beams, others lined with a thick casing of wood.
1245 XIV | heavens. Before her light the lingering clouds fled away, while
1246 III | covered by a partly rotten lining of wood.~Arrived at the
1247 XI | circumstances, so singularly linked together. To begin with,
1248 XIV | the crest of the crouching lion, which, seen from the west,
1249 XII | like a smile curved her lip. “Nell,” he said, “Nell,
1250 II | seltzer water bottles. This liquid, loaded with carbonic acid,
1251 II | spirifores, even fish and lizards brought by the water, left
1252 II | water bottles. This liquid, loaded with carbonic acid, rushed
1253 IX | three occasions found a loaf of bread and a jug of water
1254 XVI | think about it, for the local papers published an account
1255 I | so many different uses, locomotives, steamers, gas works, &c.,
1256 VII | instead of bees, might have lodged all the ichthyosauri, megatheriums,
1257 IX | gallery, much wider and loftier than the former, they all
1258 XVII | of wicked wretches, and I longed to escape. You, Madge, first
1259 XIX | destined to attain a wonderful longevity. The Harfang continued to
1260 XII | Shades flit by, which one longs to follow; circles mingle
1261 XVI | Here masses of coal were loosened by pick-ax and crowbar;
1262 XVIII| gauze of the apparatus.~In a loud voice this old man shouted, “
1263 XVII | her.~The girl arrested her lover by a gesture, and continued, “
1264 XIII | brings happiness to the lovers, and safety to their friends,
1265 III | vapors which the manufacturer loves to see, hung in the horizon,
1266 XIX | and Nell were happy. These loving hearts, after the trials
1267 III | him a fine specimen of a lowlander. Accustomed from his earliest
1268 V | both in the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland. Of course the
1269 XVII | nerved herself to act as her loyal heart dictated as her duty.~“
1270 XIV | the deep silence during a lull, the distant line of the
1271 I | James Starr pointed to a lump of coal which had been kept
1272 XII | difficult to conceal this lurking-place, and it might reasonably
1273 XV | form a little harbor at Luss. Nell could for a moment
1274 XIX | and living far from the luxury and intemperance of the
1275 XIV | us, is Vega, that star in Lyra which you observe near the
1276 XV | land of Rob Roy and Fergus MacIvor!—the scenery immortalized
1277 IX | most vigorous search. The magistrate wished first to ascertain
1278 XIV | that of stars of the sixth magnitude, therefore they vanish as
1279 XVIII| usual head-dress of Scottish maidens.~All proceeded towards St.
1280 VIII | hand that it was not the main way; either the cleft was
1281 XV | wild rocky gorges on the mainland.~“Nell,” said James Starr, “
1282 XVI | malevolence, but not the malefactor.”~“But he exists! he is
1283 IX | of the Fire-Maidens had maliciously attracted the MOTALA to
1284 III | oscillating ladders, called “man-engines,” which, by a simple movement,
1285 XVII | Mad as he is, we shall manage to convince him that Nell
1286 I | for twenty years, been the manager, or, as he would be termed
1287 I | years of age, and other managers and overseers, surrounded
1288 XII | could have explained, was manifest.~“Should you like to stay
1289 XVIII| He was clothed in a dark mantle, his hair was dishevelled,
1290 I | in the two Americas. The manu-factories, appropriated to so many
1291 III | those black vapors which the manufacturer loves to see, hung in the
1292 XVI | erase Loch Katrine from the map of Scotland until (by public
1293 VI | walls of the cavern the marks of the pick could still
1294 XIII | present blind; and before she marries me, I wish her to see what
1295 XIII | can our son ever think of marrying? Where could a wife possibly
1296 VI | way described.~Fire-damp, marsh-gas, or carburetted hydrogen,
1297 XV | Starr, as the cause of this marvel became suddenly clear to
1298 XVIII| the calmness of despair, marvelled that the inevitable explosion
1299 IV | s instinct assisted him marvelously, and the engineer, James
1300 XII | new subject for legendary marvels, and were inclined to think,
1301 XIV | kings to that of the unhappy Mary Stuart, and the French king,
1302 VI | called him, with his face masked, his head muffled up, all
1303 I | putters, wastemen, barrowmen, masons, smiths, carpenters, outside
1304 XIV | hill lay the silent city, massed confusedly in the twilight
1305 I | huge fantastically-shaped mastodon, from which all the organs
1306 VII | was this new domain, of matchless wealth, the discovery of
1307 II | the scarcely-formed rocks material with which to compose schists,
1308 XVIII| rokelay,” or Tartan plaid, of matrons of the olden time, old Simon
1309 II | James Starr arrived, after mature reflection. The contradiction
1310 IV | made of meat and barley meal. This remarkable dish, which
1311 | meantime
1312 III | and his guide, with the measured step habitual to the miner.
1313 IV | engines which worked the mechanical traction of the Dochart
1314 XI | a prodigious gust of air meets us, our lamp is broken,
1315 VII | lodged all the ichthyosauri, megatheriums, and ptero-dactyles of the
1316 XVIII| of the old overman— every member of this great family of
1317 XIX | the following day.~On this memorable occasion, Jack Ryan, in
1318 XIII | he shake his fist with a menacing gesture towards the calm
1319 VI | miner had told him, and mentally weighed all the arguments
1320 II | inferior planets, Venus or Mercury, which revolve nearer than
1321 XVII | His is a soul incapable of mercy or forgiveness, and no mortal
1322 IX | catastrophe Jack left the farm merily, feeling nothing of his
1323 IX | as was asserted? Did they merit the name of fire-maidens,
1324 IV | stewed with leeks, which merited high praise. The whole was
1325 III | there were vaulted roofs, to merrily echo one’s songs, while
1326 XI | humor and usually infectious merriment, failed to rouse him to
1327 IV | up yonder, who would love merry-makings and dancing, who would prefer
1328 XIV | clear. The moon, riding in mid-heaven, diffused her rays on all
1329 XIV | chapter of the Heart of Mid-Lothian. ‘If I were to choose a
1330 XIV | be managed, since between midnight and noon she would experience
1331 I | nurse, just because her milk is dried up! My wife, my
1332 II | geological period; then, the mineralization of the vegetables obtained
1333 II | on the other more rapidly mineralized products, which pressed
1334 XII | longs to follow; circles mingle and intertwine, and one
1335 III | see, hung in the horizon, mingling with the clouds. No tall
1336 XVIII| the mine was carried on minutely. Every passage and gallery
1337 VII | these deep lakes, whose mirror-like surface was never ruffled
1338 XVI | catastrophe after another. These misfortunes happened chiefly at the
1339 IX | fishermen, “unless he has been misled by some—”~The man was interrupted
1340 IV | heart he felt depressed. He missed the former animation, movement,
1341 V | For ten years, without missing a single day, obstinate
1342 XIV | The atmosphere, clear of mists, promised one of those fine
1343 XII | Nell has clearly been mixed up with all this secret
1344 XIV | between which and this Modern Athens of the north ran
1345 II | convulsions, which suddenly modified the unsettled features of
1346 VIII | only just like those in a molehill, and by following the chief
1347 XVII | always accompanied by a monstrous owl, which he called Harfang,
1348 XIV | Occasionally the effect of the moonlight on the waters was as though
1349 XIV | before sunrise.”~The boat was moored to a post on the bank. A
1350 I | physical but also from a moral point of view, well deserves
1351 VI | woodwork, covered with white moss. It followed very nearly
1352 IX | Ford who were lying there motionless. But one of the bodies moved
1353 XIII | young people. But another motive, connected with wider interests,
1354 VI | pick, Harry,” cried Ford; “mount on my shoulders, my lad!
1355 XIX | young couple, who still wore mourning garments, returned to the
1356 XV | efforts of the engine could move her.~The cause of this accident
1357 XIII | ll listen till the ladder moves again, not a minute longer.”~“
1358 VI | his face masked, his head muffled up, all his body tightly
1359 VII | solidifying, nature had already multiplied the galleries and tunnels
1360 XVIII| fell upon the astounded multitude. James Starr, in the calmness
1361 XIII | laughed Jack. “By Saint Mungo! I think an immense deal
1362 VIII | dull sound, like a distant murmur. His companions were not
1363 IX | accompany those dances with the music of his bagpipes.~“Old Nick
1364 IV | wife,” said Ford, “and it mustn’t be kept waiting any more
1365 XII | that she should remain mute in a way otherwise so unaccountable.”~
1366 XIV | firmament. Nell gazed upon the myriad stars which sparkled overhead. “
1367 XII | mighty universe composed of myriads of worlds. But until she
1368 VIII | themselves against these mysteriously-prepared attacks? These disquieting
1369 V | legends and fables to this mythological repertory. If the fields
1370 X | enriching the hyperborean mythology.~Jack thus became the life
1371 XV | floated a small steamboat, named, as a matter of course,
1372 II | better to understand this narrative, it will be as well to hear
1373 XV | remarked James Starr.~The lake narrowed very much as it stretched
1374 XI | pit, which was gradually narrowing into the shape of a funnel.
1375 IV | consisted of a “haggis,” the national pudding, made of meat and
1376 III | fuel for the gold of other nations! I know well,” added the
1377 II | can understand that! His native mine! He did not like to
1378 VII | between the passages, the naves themselves in this layer
1379 II | or Mercury, which revolve nearer than our earth around the
1380 III | father, Mr. Starr? no.”~“Some neighbor, then?”~“We have no neighbors
1381 III | were made of stone from neighboring quarries, and now they supported
1382 III | neighbor, then?”~“We have no neighbors in the bottom of the pit,”
1383 VII | powder, rumbling of wagons, neighing of horses, creaking of machines!
1384 XIV | buildings of the Observatory and Nelson’s Monument. By Regent’s
1385 IX | inserted in the principal newspapers of the United Kingdom relative
1386 XVIII| wore a coat of which Bailie Nicol Jarvie himself would have
1387 | nine
1388 XVI | schist.~Hollow, cavernous noises resounded on all sides.
1389 XI | visitors, who passed them in noisy crowds, but Harry paid very
1390 XIV | since between midnight and noon she would experience the
1391 XV | Then, the SINCLAIR turning northward, the tourists gazed upon
1392 XV | very much as it stretched northwards.~The steamer passed a few
1393 IX | beach.~The ship was the Norwegian brig MOTALA, laden with
1394 XIV | philosopher, curious to note, from a psychological point
1395 XIII | interest in her.~It must be noted that Jack Ryan had the greatest
1396 III | had from childhood been noticed among his comrades in the
1397 VI | hope, walked on without noticing the length of the way. He
1398 XI | body?”~“What can put such a notion in your head, Jack?” asked
1399 XIV | psychological point of view, the novel impressions made upon Nell;
1400 XIV | from the great Scottish novelist, simply said, “Listen to
1401 XIV | She will better enjoy the novelties of the day after a couple
1402 | nowhere
1403 VIII | winding. They met with no noxious exhalations, nor did any
1404 IX | disappeared.~“Here is a nuisance!” said Jack, beginning to
1405 VII | might be called a hive with numberless ranges of cells, capriciously
1406 I | leave the mine, our good old nurse, just because her milk is
1407 XVII | earliest years I was the nursling of a goat, the death of
1408 VII | reflected there; no birch or oak trees waved on their banks.
1409 XV | from amidst the thicket of oaks, birches, and heather, which
1410 XIV | of Lake Malcolm; but the oar, handled ever so lightly
1411 XIV | effort on the part of the oarsman. Now, for the first time,
1412 IV | dinner ended with cheese and oatcake, accompanied by a few small
1413 XVII | help returning it. It even obeyed me better than its master,
1414 XI | But, notwithstanding his objections to the scheme, Jack Ryan
1415 XV | token of admiration as new objects of wonder or beauty met
1416 XI | the British sun, oftener obscured by fogs than it ought to
1417 VIII | exterior atmosphere.~This observation, made by the engineer, was
1418 XIV | dawn, the buildings of the Observatory and Nelson’s Monument. By
1419 XIV | that star in Lyra which you observe near the zenith, and that
1420 XIV | James Starr went as an observer and philosopher, curious
1421 XIII | there were none to place obstacles in the way of this union—
1422 XII | not just because we were obstinately resolved to remain that
1423 XVIII| building Silfax passed out to obtain what was needful for the
1424 XVII | detected, I succeeded in obtaining bread and water for you
1425 XVI | one coins false money or obtains contraband goods only to
1426 IX | perished had they not on three occasions found a loaf of bread and
1427 XII | mouth of the den. As to its occupants, the question is— Are they
1428 XVII | assisted him in his perilous occupation, by soaring with a lighted
1429 I | border on the Alloa mines and occupy part of the county of Stirling,
1430 III | carburetted hydrogen could not occur. As no explosion need be
1431 XVI | there were more accidents occurring in New Aberfoyle than had
1432 IV | Burns with one of his best odes, shared the fate of all
1433 VI | absence of the characteristic odor of fire-damp; for he exclaimed
1434 IV | would have given serious offense who could have ventured
1435 X | mine enabled the company to offer for labor, they deserted
1436 IX | was made with great care. Officials came to Dundonald Castle,
1437 XI | light which the British sun, oftener obscured by fogs than it
1438 XVIII| plaid, of matrons of the olden time, old Simon wore a coat
1439 | onto
1440 XVI | appears to be too weak to act openly, and lays his schemes in
1441 XI | interest in this mine in strong opposition to ours. Many a time have
1442 XVI | some great secret painfully oppresses her heart. Either she knows
1443 IX | It was evidently just an optical delusion, aided by a good
1444 IX | to complete his infernal orchestra.”~We may well believe that
1445 II | for the week. Then, having ordered his servant to pack a traveling
1446 XVI | venture alone beyond the ordinary limits of the works.~They
1447 XVIII| Malcolm. Then the tones of the organ were heard, and, preceded
1448 I | mastodon, from which all the organs of life have been taken,
1449 XVIII| She had declined every ornament of dress, and the very simplicity
1450 III | working in wooden slides, oscillating ladders, called “man-engines,”
1451 XVI | of some new and dreadful outbreak of his hatred.~One morning,
1452 VI | flame, rather blue at its outline, flickered over the rock
1453 X | its most secret ins and outs. He could even say what
1454 XVIII| the madman pointed with outstretched arm.~Another second and
1455 XVIII| being rendered the engineer— outwardly calm—an unhappy man.~As
1456 XVI | inundation was owing to the overflow of a subterranean sheet
1457 VIII | restrained himself. His joy overflowed, not in long phrases, but
1458 VII | of it!”~The old miner was overflowing with joy. James Starr fully
1459 XVIII| which was formed the terrace overhanging the banks of Loch Malcolm,
1460 XIV | myriad stars which sparkled overhead. “But how is it,” she said
1461 X | dedicated to St. Giles, overlooked it from the top of a huge
1462 XIV | Would the first beams of day overpower her feelings? All remained
1463 XVI | through. Harry, who had been overseeing the works near the place
1464 XV | well as the mountains which overshadow the lake. One may, without
1465 IX | following their example, quickly overtook the head-most of the party.~
1466 XVI | obstacle on the rails, and was overturned. It was then discovered
1467 XVI | man; “if our town is to be overwhelmed, the floods will rush faster
1468 XVIII| marriage of Nell and Harry by overwhelming the entire population of
1469 XVII | he believed himself the owner of a treasure he must conceal
1470 II | having ordered his servant to pack a traveling bag, he went
1471 VII | schistous rocks. But tightly packed between these useless strata
1472 XII | accustomed to the night, were pained by the glare of the electric
1473 XII | drawn by suffering, the pallid complexion, which light
1474 XIV | At her feet extended the panorama of Edinburgh—the clear,
1475 XIV | gulfs, and seas would pass, panorama-like, before her eyes.~In that
1476 IV | bowels of the earth. He was par excellence the type of a
1477 XIV | They entered the King’s Park, then, gradually ascending
1478 XIV | to represent those of the Parthenon at Athens.~Fine roadways
1479 VI | no flame. Evidently not a particle of gas was escaping through
1480 XIX | that, he appeared to have a particular spite against Harry. The
1481 V | friend. He was the great partisan of all these superstitions.
1482 IX | support the opinions of all partisans of the supernatural, and
1483 IV | truly pleased to have only a partition wall between you and him.”~“
1484 III | which were covered by a partly rotten lining of wood.~Arrived
1485 XIII | In time Harry became a partner. But he never thought of
1486 XV | often veil the skies.~The passengers were determined to lose
1487 XIV | stars disappear as the moon passes on? so I suppose they drop
1488 III | grave looks, his habitually passive expression, had from childhood
1489 XIV | steps over yet untrodden paths, and to show her the glories
1490 VII | longing to get at the vein!”~“Patience, Simon!” responded the engineer. “
1491 XVI | the work of a stern and patient will, and to explain it
1492 IX | liked, he bore his trouble patiently, and the farm echoed all
1493 I | dispel the man’s illusion. He patted Harry’s head, again wrung
1494 XII | indeed,” said Harry, after a pause, “and she to whom we owe
1495 XIII | the party when Nell should pay her first visit to the upper
1496 X | though you narrowly escaped paying for the discovery with your
1497 XV | see how haughtily its peak rises from amidst the thicket
1498 X | guides do on their snowy peaks in daylight he could have
1499 XIX | generations of the Scottish peasantry.~ ~
1500 IX | terrified fishermen and peasants.~All was then explained.
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