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1501 XI | reach, and endeavoring, by pecking furiously, to cut it.~Harry
1502 XII | seemed attracted by the very peculiarity of this poor stranger. He
1503 I | unaccustomed to the use of a pen. James Starr tore it open.
1504 X | stuck in his hat, did he penetrate its furthest depths. He
1505 XVI | subterranean sheet of water penetrating fissures in the solid rock,
1506 XIV | him join them. Nell was pensive and silent.~James Starr
1507 V | repertory. If the fields are peopled with imaginary beings, either
1508 | per
1509 VIII | the noise of the water is perceptible.”~“Very little indeed,”
1510 XVIII| carburetted hydrogen was perceptibly diffused through the atmosphere.
1511 XVII | that all men were base and perfidious, because he wished to inspire
1512 XVI | pick-ax and crowbar; there the perforating machines, with their harsh
1513 IV | long years he zealously performed his duty. His only grief
1514 IX | the old castle and there performing wild strathspeys, especially
1515 XVII | who assisted him in his perilous occupation, by soaring with
1516 III | guard against all those perils! You say well! It was a
1517 II | strata. In course of time, periods of which include millions
1518 XVII | mine, you should assuredly perish. Notwithstanding his great
1519 IX | as soon as he was given permission to sing as much as he liked,
1520 III | which, by a simple movement, permitted the miners to descend without
1521 XI | natural shaft which descends perpendicularly into the vein beneath. A
1522 XVIII| strain of anxiety in this perpetual effort to detect a malignant
1523 IX | a legend which would be perpetuated by the remembrance of the
1524 XVI | genius about to renew his persecution of those who ventured to
1525 XVIII| gratitude to these bold and persevering men, by whose means the
1526 XIII | cause of them?~“Nell has persisted in keeping silence,” said
1527 XII | uneasiness with regard to this persistent silence. They found it impossible
1528 V | should not the supernatural personages come there to play their
1529 XI | Jack,” replied Harry; “I am persuaded that this malignant being,
1530 VII | deserted mine, an uncommon pertinacity in research, perfect faith,
1531 XVIII| suns. A luminous atmosphere pervaded New Aberfoyle. In the chapel,
1532 II | of first creation became petrified. Some of the substances
1533 XIV | blazed like the light of a pharos.~It was day—the sun arose—
1534 XIV | experience the successive phases of shade and sunshine, to
1535 XIV | went as an observer and philosopher, curious to note, from a
1536 VIII | overflowed, not in long phrases, but in short ejaculations.~
1537 XVI | of coal were loosened by pick-ax and crowbar; there the perforating
1538 VII | coal veins. James Starr picked up some of the pieces, and
1539 XV | westward extended like a picture framed between Ben An and
1540 X | pressed upon them, like the piers of a bridge. So was founded
1541 XVI | activity; coal was being piled incessantly into the trucks,
1542 XVI | caves, go forth to rob and pillage the surrounding country.
1543 XII | when she had adjusted the pillows. “After a good rest, and
1544 XV | coal mine. Shall you not pine for what you have seen during
1545 IX | almanac.~The almanac was pinned up on the wall, and there
1546 X | introduced into the crypt—pintails, snipes, ducks, who fed
1547 III | young miner.~“The Hundred Pipers!” cried Harry. “Well, I
1548 I | frames to support the shaft, pipes—in short, all that constituted
1549 XIV | straight as that leading to the Piraeus.~Beyond the wide Firth could
1550 I | was excited to the highest pitch. It never occurred to him
1551 IX | the barn. The night was pitchy dark. Squalls of wind and
1552 III | cried the young man, “it’s a pity that all the globe was not
1553 IX | who amuse themselves by plaguing mankind, and he made them
1554 VII | the light of a special planet.~Water had collected in
1555 II | surface of the inferior planets, Venus or Mercury, which
1556 XIV | The expedition had been planned so as to combine a view
1557 V | personages come there to play their parts?~So reasoned
1558 XIX | unheard of achievement of playing, singing, and dancing all
1559 III | to precede him.~“As you please, Mr. Starr.”~“Have you your
1560 IV | Ford, “and it will be a pleasure to her to see you at her
1561 X | moved by hydraulic power, plied from hour to hour to and
1562 XVII | as for ours, these insane plots must be put a stop to.”~“
1563 X | had hastened to leave the plow and harrow, and résumé the
1564 XVIII| enormous owl, whose white plumage was marked with black spots,
1565 XI | bending over the opening as my plumb-line went down, it seemed to
1566 XII | former days, they would have plundered the unfortunate vessel,
1567 XVIII| the waters were now wildly plunging.~In another instant, among
1568 IV | dish, which inspired the poet Burns with one of his best
1569 XV | scenery immortalized by the poetical descriptions of Walter Scott,”
1570 XV | faculty the magnificent poetry with which lovely Scottish
1571 XVI | all directions. The county police were on the alert night
1572 II | engineer. “It’s pouring, and politeness needn’t make you catch cold.”~“
1573 II | shells, zoophytes, star-fish, polypi, spirifores, even fish and
1574 VIII | venture so far into the crypt. Pooh! they never thought of how
1575 VII | exhausted—who knows but that the poorer classes of Great Britain
1576 XVIII| fiery kaleidoscopes. At the porch of the chapel the minister
1577 II | it to spread through its pores. This caused a peculiar
1578 XIV | all sides. In the little port of Granton lay two or three
1579 XVIII| only too possible that he possessed some terrible means by which
1580 XVI | New Aberfoyle. Good wishes poured in on all sides, and foremost
1581 II | said the engineer. “It’s pouring, and politeness needn’t
1582 VII | and mattock, blasts of powder, rumbling of wagons, neighing
1583 XI | the beak of the bird. But, powerfully as he held it in his iron
1584 XVII | one way to render Silfax powerless, and that will be by my
1585 VIII | get back.~The gallery was practicable, not very winding. They
1586 XVI | carried on their illegal practices in some distant and unknown
1587 XVI | He was detected busily practicing his best songs in preparation
1588 III | signing to the young man to precede him.~“As you please, Mr.
1589 XVI | through its worn bed, and precipitating itself to the lowest level
1590 XII | at present conveying no precise meaning to her, it was impossible
1591 IV | merry-makings and dancing, who would prefer her clan to our mine! Harry
1592 XIV | sensitive imagination, but preferring to allow ideas to arise
1593 XVI | was proved to have been premeditated by man, and by man’s hand
1594 III | nave. Harry was evidently preoccupied, and frequently turned,
1595 II | evening, Starr made his preparations for departure. As it might
1596 XI | there still, and probably prepares some terrible disaster for
1597 IV | knew no rival in the art of preparing hotchpotch. It was the same
1598 X | He certainly would, if presentiments were to be trusted; but
1599 XIX | distressed them, joyously presided over the entertainment which
1600 V | lights the fire-damp, and presides over the terrible explosions?
1601 VI | cried the old miner—and, pressing his lips tight together,
1602 VIII | way as to change simple presumptions into certainties.~In the
1603 XIII | resumed Harry, “I need not pretend that I do not love Nell;
1604 XI | world above, stormy weather prevailed. Violent rains fell, and
1605 III | that metallic screen which prevents the gas from catching fire.
1606 IX | been stopped a few hours previously. The lamps, fastened to
1607 XVI | overman, with a feeling of pride in his beloved mine; “for
1608 V | pushed to the granite of the primary formation, the Fords were
1609 II | resting-place, such as the primitive bed of granitic rock, or,
1610 III | forethought by forming our sphere principally of sandstone, limestone,
1611 III | No tall cylindrical or prismatic chimney vomited out smoke,
1612 VIII | and his companions were prisoners in New Aberfoyle.~
1613 VII | companions could therefore proceed in security. Besides, the
1614 VIII | But as James Starr was proceeding towards the gallery Simon
1615 XVIII| having passed in stately procession along the shore of Loch
1616 XVII | completely lost his senses. He proclaimed himself King of Darkness
1617 XVII | me with whatever he could procure from outside the mine; but
1618 XVII | unsettled his brain. He was prodigiously strong, and he knew the
1619 XIV | was now enlarged, without producing the impression of the boundless
1620 VII | unfit for any vegetable production, the place could be inhabited
1621 II | more rapidly mineralized products, which pressed them as an
1622 I | limit of time assigned by professional men for the exhaustion of
1623 IX | its head, the indistinct profile of a human face could be
1624 XIII | region, shared largely in the profits.~In time Harry became a
1625 XII | a very few minutes slept profoundly.~This event caused a great
1626 XVI | it. They mentioned their project to no one. To those unacquainted
1627 XI | him, but he had seen no projection from the walls behind which
1628 XI | had become aware of our projects, and wished to prevent their
1629 XIV | pointing towards a bright prominent point in the New Town, “
1630 XV | to his.~Scarcely had she pronounced these words when an unaccountable
1631 XVI | be, then?”~“We shall find proofs of malevolence, but not
1632 XVIII| canoe, which a vigorous arm propelled along the surface of the
1633 VI | long robe like a monk. His proper name was the ‘fireman.’
1634 XIV | constitutes Auld Reekie, properly so called. Two heights commanded
1635 VI | air unites with it in a proportion of eight, and perhaps even
1636 XIV | quarter, shorn of her just proportions, and friend Jack’s grand
1637 VI | in an instant. His father propped himself up against the rock.
1638 VI | disabled vessel— of the proprietor who sees the house of his
1639 X | families in New Aberfoyle prospered well, having in three years
1640 XVIII| safety lamp, the flame being protected by the metallic gauze of
1641 XII | lead to the happy result of providing work for a large population,
1642 IX | How had the cottage been provisioned since then? The food of
1643 IX | clock was before the Lord Provost.~There his declaration was
1644 V | certainly some strange being prowled about in the pit. But whatever
1645 XVII | strange solitary being, prowling about the mine, always accompanied
1646 IV | Yes, Mr. Starr, it will be prudent.”~“My good Simon, won’t
1647 VIII | from it. However, Harry prudently carried only the safety
1648 XIV | curious to note, from a psychological point of view, the novel
1649 VII | ichthyosauri, megatheriums, and ptero-dactyles of the geological epoch.~
1650 IV | a “haggis,” the national pudding, made of meat and barley
1651 VI | commonly expressed by the word “puff.”~Harry again seized his
1652 III | itself; no blast-pipe was puffing out its white vapor. The
1653 XI | down into the gulf, and his pulling the cord was to be the signal
1654 XII | was wonderfully keen, the pupil dilated in a remarkable
1655 XVIII| must have done, either by purchasing or thieving).~As to the “
1656 VII | security. Besides, the air grew purer by rising to the heights
1657 VI | mines was formerly always purified in the way described.~Fire-damp,
1658 XVIII| the old man, foiled in his purpose of revenge, cast himself
1659 IX | cavern, the way back had been purposely closed against them by a
1660 XIV | country house. But let us pursue our way. There, just above
1661 XIV | come, Nell, come!”~They pursued their way, James Starr leading
1662 IX | goblin and those who were pursuing it was becoming less. Could
1663 V | the soundings had not been pushed to the granite of the primary
1664 V | tempestuous nights? who puts the miners on the track
1665 I | mine. Overmen, brakemen, putters, wastemen, barrowmen, masons,
1666 XIII | former history continued to puzzle them a good deal. They plainly
1667 XII | around in a confused and puzzled way, as if all were new
1668 VII | mining instinct— all these qualities together led him to succeed
1669 VI | collected it in too great quantities in the heights of the galleries.
1670 VIII | Cardiff! Well, stokers will quarrel for it still, and if it
1671 III | of stone from neighboring quarries, and now they supported
1672 XIII | to mean me to take up my quarters here altogether!”~“Do be
1673 III | double layer of tertiary and quaternary soil, which formerly rested
1674 XIV | ascending they passed across the Queen’s Drive, a splendid carriageway
1675 V | portion of the mine? Thus he questioned, and when he made known
1676 IX | absence. They learnt, by questioning his servant, that he had
1677 XIV | not make up their minds to quit their subterranean home
1678 XIV | James Starr, ever ready with quotations from the great Scottish
1679 I | CONTRADICTORY LETTERS~To Mr. F. R. Starr, Engineer, 30 Canongate,
1680 XVII | discovered what I had done, his rage against me was terrible.
1681 XI | strife of the elements which raged without. What wonder then,
1682 X | maintained that it always rained “up there,” and, considering
1683 IV | horrible weather.”~“Ah, it is raining up there,” responded Simon
1684 XVII | granddaughter added to his rancor and ill-will.”~“To be sure,”
1685 V | transmitted with marvelous rapidity, passing from mouth to mouth,
1686 X | proud of their place. They rarely left their laboring village—
1687 XII | indeed, Harry! Once some rash people made their way into
1688 VII | into it; but he let Ford rave for them both. Harry alone
1689 IV | you hungry, Mr. Starr?”~“Ravenously hungry. My journey has given
1690 I | the engineer’s life. Starr re-read his letter. He pondered
1691 IX | companions endeavored to reanimate the engineer and his friends
1692 VII | longer—passed. Harry did not reappear, did not call. Gazing into
1693 IV | gleaming strangely.~Harry soon reappeared, carrying three safety lamps.
1694 VIII | and I will bring up the rear. Above everything, don’t
1695 XII | lurking-place, and it might reasonably be hoped they were gone,
1696 IV | letter had not contributed to reassure him.~Whilst he was absent,
1697 V | for otherwise, without rebounding, it could never have described
1698 XIV | eyes, as though she would recall the remembrance of everything
1699 | recent
1700 XI | drawn the body from the recess to the bottom of the shaft,
1701 XVI | Nell’s father?”~“You may reckon upon me for that, Simon,”
1702 VI | without fire.”~“And have you recognized the presence of light carburetted
1703 XIII | displeased thereat. They recollected that Simon had said to the
1704 XV | to impress lastingly the recollection of all she had seen.~Her
1705 I | and wherever you go, our recommendations shall follow you. Farewell
1706 X | related, the guide-books recommended as a “great attraction,”
1707 XII | young girl had sufficiently recovered her strength, to see her,
1708 XVI | geological strata had become reduced to a thin layer, incapable
1709 XVI | subscription) it could be refilled, care being of course taken,
1710 XIV | broke gently on the beach, reflecting the starlight. “Is this
1711 II | Starr arrived, after mature reflection. The contradiction which
1712 XIII | used to the light of our reflectors. That is some preparation.
1713 XIV | large from the effects of refraction, he contracted as he rose
1714 XIV | the upper air, driven by a refreshing northwesterly breeze. The
1715 IV | good?” he would say, and refused to leave his black domain.
1716 XIV | and Nelson’s Monument. By Regent’s Bridge and the North Bridge
1717 II | uniform of their Highland regiment, tartan kilt, plaid and
1718 IV | fellows to the Highland regiments.~Simon Ford was descended
1719 IV | shared all his hopes and regrets. She encouraged him, she
1720 XVI | above ground, yet without regretting it. The somber region she
1721 IV | Britain were the first ever regularly worked. So early as the
1722 XIII | Harry was thus giving the rein to his imagination, Jack
1723 II | Simon Ford’s communication relate to a fact of this nature?
1724 XVII | in the mine, who had no relation but himself, her great-grandfather.
1725 XII | who have occasionally been released by a stroke of the pickax
1726 III | obscurity, which was only relieved by the glimmer of the lamp.
1727 IV | black domain. The place was remarkably healthy, subject to an equable
1728 VII | again, like a widow who remarries! The bustle of the old days
1729 XVI | her, because they might remind her painfully of former
1730 VII | old overman, dead to their remonstrances, was about to enter the
1731 IX | the upper regions. If the removal of the lower ladders of
1732 III | which does all it can to remove ignorance. Though, during
1733 XI | fearful strain of anxiety removed, a reaction took place,
1734 XVI | their evil genius about to renew his persecution of those
1735 VI | being fatal, and, by often renewing this operation, catastrophes
1736 XVII | were he my son, I should renounce and curse him.”~“Nell, do
1737 I | had acquired the greatest renown. There, the greater part
1738 XIV | glance here and there between rents in the clouds?”~“Those are
1739 XI | the works here have been reopened, not a single one has been
1740 I | which I must keep secret, to repair to the Dochart pit!” James
1741 IV | old—just Harry’s age. The repast lasted a good hour. James
1742 XII | satisfied on the subject, often repeating, “Nell has clearly been
1743 V | fables to this mythological repertory. If the fields are peopled
1744 VI | opening. There was a slight report; and a little red flame,
1745 V | distinctly heard distant reports, as if some miner had exploded
1746 XIV | monuments, ruins built to represent those of the Parthenon at
1747 III | subterranean forests will not be reproduced, and if they were, the globe
1748 IX | these fire-maidens had the reputation of frequenting the ruins
1749 II | that is to say, to the request of such a man as Simon Ford,
1750 I | letter from Simon Ford, requesting him to take without delay
1751 XII | poor creature whom he had rescued from the pit.~Harry imagined
1752 XIV | opening so widely as to resemble a gulf. Taste a little of
1753 XIV | west, Arthur’s Seat so much resembles. There, all four seated
1754 IV | as he called it, in which resided the old overman. As he had
1755 V | than the rest, had always resisted this temptation. They in
1756 III | colliery, which in this respect was very well off; frames
1757 VI | a blue flame, and makes respiration impossible. The miner could
1758 IX | mankind, and he made them responsible for the catastrophe of the
1759 XVI | finished their dinner, were resting at the door of their cottage.
1760 II | either until they found a resting-place, such as the primitive bed
1761 IV | some new bed which would restore the mine to its past splendor.
1762 XII | a large population, and restoring them to ease and comfort?
1763 VIII | silent; even Simon Ford restrained himself. His joy overflowed,
1764 IX | on his legs again, before resuming his work on the farm, he
1765 XII | I am sure I should have retained some impression of the open
1766 II | and when James Starr had retired, it was with the full conviction
1767 VII | for by an unaccountable retreat of the mineral matter at
1768 IX | extinguishing the light and retreating into some dark refuge.~“
1769 XVII | nowhere. I have never seen his retreats. I have never seen him sleep.
1770 XII | secret, which she dares not reveal, weighs on her mind. It
1771 IV | coal mine as a hydroscope reveals springs in the bowels of
1772 XVI | the evil demon of the mine revenges himself on us for having
1773 XVII | and happy workmen, who so revere and trust Mr. Starr, I used
1774 IV | And Simon fell into a reverie, from which he was aroused
1775 I | Institution; and the Edinburgh Review frequently published clever
1776 IV | Aberfoyle would one day revive! He had never given up the
1777 II | Venus or Mercury, which revolve nearer than our earth around
1778 XI | them?”~“Both punish and reward. Remember, if one hand shut
1779 XIV | traveling companions, thus rewarding them for letting him join
1780 XIV | continued clear. The moon, riding in mid-heaven, diffused
1781 XVIII| Dundonald Castle. It was rightly supposed that through this
1782 XVI | she had just opened.~With rigid fingers she pointed to the
1783 XIV | silver field. Little wavelets rippled along the banks. It was
1784 XIV | our own sun, which will rise to-morrow, is only distant
1785 IV | Simon said, his wife knew no rival in the art of preparing
1786 XVI | to speak, her eyes were riveted on the door of the cottage,
1787 XIV | Parthenon at Athens.~Fine roadways led in all directions from
1788 X | the numerous tourists who roam over the county of Stirling,
1789 XIV | her side, while Jack Ryan roamed about like a young dog,
1790 XVI | homesick?~Just then a terrific roaring noise was heard. It was
1791 XVII | should marry one of the robbers of his own coal mine would
1792 VI | so because he wore a long robe like a monk. His proper
1793 IX | those of this castle of Robert Stuart, which bore the name
1794 IV | sixty-five years well. Tall, robust, well-built, he would have
1795 XIV | three fishing boats; they rocked gently on the waters of
1796 XVIII| wearing the “toy” and the “rokelay,” or Tartan plaid, of matrons
1797 XIV | one of Sir Walter Scott’s romances.~Arthur’s Seat is in truth
1798 IV | whether or not the Greeks and Romans made use of coal, whether
1799 IX | empty.~They examined all the rooms in the somber habitation.
1800 XIV | her hands Nell perceived a rosy light, which became more
1801 III | some shored up with great, roughly-hewn beams, others lined with
1802 XIV | Calton Hill, bearing on its rounded summit, among other monuments,
1803 XI | infectious merriment, failed to rouse him to gayety of manner.~
1804 II | and limestones. This the roving waves bore over the submerged
1805 XIV | the maiden! She had been rowed on the waters of Lake Malcolm;
1806 XVI | was a whole band of these ruffians,” Simon kept saying, “and
1807 VII | mirror-like surface was never ruffled by a breeze, would not be
1808 IX | region. Jack entered the ruined shed which covered the opening
1809 VII | mattock, blasts of powder, rumbling of wagons, neighing of horses,
1810 IX | leg to feel for the first rung of the twenty-seventh ladder.
1811 XI | held on with both hands by sacrificing the life of the child he
1812 III | engineer gazed about him with a saddened eye. He stopped now and
1813 XIV | friends took their seats; the sail was spread; it quickly filled
1814 XIV | waters was as though the boat sailed across a glittering silver
1815 IX | the vessel and the eight sailors who composed his crew were
1816 XIII | sharp,” laughed Jack. “By Saint Mungo! I think an immense
1817 XIV | the superb cliffs called Salisbury Crags. Arthur’s Seat rises
1818 IV | the coal miners, like the salt-makers of that period, were actual
1819 XIV | spectator stretched the yellow sands of Portobello and Newhaven.~
1820 II | which to compose schists, sandstones, and limestones. This the
1821 III | eyes, a laughing mouth, and sandy hair, appeared at the bottom
1822 XII | came to the cottage. He sang, and Nell, who had never
1823 V | answer the question in a satisfactory way.~“It is very queer,”
1824 XVI | disaster, and endeavor to satisfy themselves as to the cause
1825 II | atmosphere surrounded it, saturated with watery vapors, and
1826 XVI | first of all been partially sawn through. Harry, who had
1827 XVII | you hear what our mother says?” resumed Harry. “Wherever
1828 II | liked, tearing from the scarcely-formed rocks material with which
1829 I | and there was no dread of scarcity. There were still extensive
1830 XIV | is fragrant with all the scents of the open country.”~“What
1831 XI | notwithstanding his objections to the scheme, Jack Ryan and three miners
1832 XVI | act openly, and lays his schemes in secret; but displays
1833 II | material with which to compose schists, sandstones, and limestones.
1834 XIII | marry Nell, she shall go to school in Auld Reekie.”~“No indeed,
1835 IX | good deal of credulity, and science could easily have explained
1836 IX | passed in great anxiety. The scientific world of England was inclined
1837 IX | courage of these superstitious Scotchmen, which had failed before
1838 XII | towards the south. At last he scrambled with difficulty up a narrow
1839 III | surrounding air that metallic screen which prevents the gas from
1840 XIII | But for the present I have scruples of conscience as to asking
1841 V | with the greatest care, scrutinizing every crevice in the gallery,
1842 XV | they watched the curious sea-like movement of the river. After
1843 XVIII| passage and gallery was searched, up to those higher ranges
1844 XIV | rivers, lakes, gulfs, and seas would pass, panorama-like,
1845 III | But formerly, at whatever season, the mining population,
1846 XIV | and her friends took their seats; the sail was spread; it
1847 XIV | appear above the horizon seaward.”~They entered the King’
1848 XV | opened in its bed. In a few seconds it had the appearance of
1849 IX | Ford’s letter had requested secrecy, and he had said nothing
1850 XII | by God to help them, who secretly brought them a little food;
1851 XVI | understand better than we do the secrets of our domain, since he
1852 VII | could therefore proceed in security. Besides, the air grew purer
1853 | seeming
1854 VIII | from the mine, it will not sell at a less price outside.”~“
1855 II | thousands of millions of seltzer water bottles. This liquid,
1856 II | form, and maintained in its semi-fluid state as much by the heat
1857 II | I.”~“Then did Simon Ford send me a second letter to contradict
1858 XIV | things filled her with new sensations, and left lasting impressions
1859 XIV | Starr had decided, very sensibly, to set off in the evening.
1860 XIV | theirs the girl’s highly sensitive imagination, but preferring
1861 XVI | spot, read the threatening sentences again and again.~“The hand
1862 IX | he imbibed a more lively sentiment of fear with regard to brownies
1863 I | time has come for us to separate. The Aberfoyle mines, which
1864 I | It was after ten years of separation that he got this letter
1865 XIV | their changeful clouds, serene or veiled moon, their radiant
1866 XVIII| from the panic, which had seriously interrupted the work of
1867 X | Grampian mountains. This vault served as a basement to Dumbarton.
1868 XIII | like to be spoken to! Let’s settle, then, that, before you
1869 X | Stirling. It was a regular settlement on the banks of Loch Malcolm.
1870 II | bed of granitic rock, or, settling together in a heap, they
1871 IX | was among the number—were severely wounded on the rocks. But
1872 XVII | you. I only knew you as shadows dimly seen in the gloom
1873 V | their lowest depths. Who shakes the seam during tempestuous
1874 VIII | either the cleft was too shallow, or the opening too narrow,
1875 VII | divisions of all sizes and shapes. It might be called a hive
1876 VII | satisfaction of the old shareholders. Before three months have
1877 VI | engineer, who was not far from sharing his sentiments. They were
1878 XVIII| another instant, among the shattered rocks and rushing waves
1879 XI | strong knife in a leather sheath.~Harry advanced to the middle
1880 I | Dochart pit. Above ground, the sheds, formerly sheltering the
1881 XVI | overflow of a subterranean sheet of water penetrating fissures
1882 II | would have done.~Thus also shells, zoophytes, star-fish, polypi,
1883 II | catch cold.”~“Shall we take shelter anywhere, Mr. Starr?” asked
1884 IV | could I be otherwise here, sheltered from the inclemencies of
1885 I | ground, the sheds, formerly sheltering the outside works, still
1886 XV | glens. Over these scenes shines the pale moon, called in
1887 XVIII| stained-glass windows, which shone like fiery kaleidoscopes.
1888 X | skillfully-managed canoe. He even went shooting, for numerous birds had
1889 III | schist and sandstone, some shored up with great, roughly-hewn
1890 XIV | is in the last quarter, shorn of her just proportions,
1891 XIV | her head sank on Harry’s shoulder—she slept. Harry, sorry
1892 VII | discovered this place, why shouldn’t the good luck go on?”~
1893 II | influence my resolution, shows that Ford’s communication
1894 XI | made them sink a little.~A shriek of despair escaped his lips.~
1895 XVIII| Save him! oh, save him!” shrieked Nell in a voice of agony.
1896 XI | poor fellow!” said Jack, shrugging his shoulders. “If you would
1897 X | wild enough to make one shudder—stories well worthy of enriching
1898 XVI | this name, her whole frame shuddering with fear and agitation,
1899 XIII | conversation within the closed shutters?~And, on catching a few
1900 XVIII| under the dome; and at a sign from him the owl, seizing
1901 I | now without object.”~No signature.~
1902 I | published clever articles signed by him. He was in fact one
1903 XII | until she comprehended the significance of words at present conveying
1904 I | extent of coal-mines a very significant name. They very justly call
1905 XII | and she shook her head to signify entire want of comprehension.~
1906 XII | division, and the words signifying hours, days, months, and
1907 III | lad,” said the engineer, signing to the young man to precede
1908 XIII | recesses of New Aberfoyle, and silently glide through the darkness?~
1909 III | grazing; in another sheep with silky wool, like those in a child’
1910 XIV | glorious spectacle. The soft silvery light was pleasant to her
1911 I | over, in others they just simmer quietly. Now on this day,
1912 XVIII| ornament of dress, and the very simplicity of her attire added to the
1913 IV | dream.~Madge received the sincere compliments of her guest.
1914 X | though Melrose farm had lost singer and piper it must not be
1915 XVI | depraved human being could, single-handed, carry out an idea so infernal
1916 XI | gave way, and it made them sink a little.~A shriek of despair
1917 III | this species of inverted siphon.~“I will follow you, my
1918 IV | miner’s blood in his veins. Sit down, Mr. Starr, and have
1919 XII | of the age of fifteen or sixteen years.~She gazed at them
1920 XIV | eclipses that of stars of the sixth magnitude, therefore they
1921 IV | pit, bore the weight of sixty-five years well. Tall, robust,
1922 VII | hundred divisions of all sizes and shapes. It might be
1923 XVI | man experienced in mining, skilled beyond the most skillful—
1924 X | explored its ponds in a skillfully-managed canoe. He even went shooting,
1925 X | the-Wisp, who may be seen skipping along with his lantern in
1926 XVI | and the wooden swing-doors slammed beneath their violent gusts.
1927 X | southwest of Callander opened a slanting tunnel, adorned with a castellated
1928 III | lifts, working in wooden slides, oscillating ladders, called “
1929 XI | could feel it gradually slipping through his fingers.~He
1930 X | This lofty tunnel gently sloped straight to the stupendous
1931 XIV | town still lay wrapt in slumber.~Nell pointed to a large
1932 XVIII| him coming. Instantly he smashed the glass of his lamp, and,
1933 I | wastemen, barrowmen, masons, smiths, carpenters, outside and
1934 XVI | of their cottage. Simon smoked a good pipe of tobacco,
1935 XVI | sometimes used to think, that smugglers or coiners carried on their
1936 XVIII| glass of his lamp, and, snatching out the burning wick, waved
1937 X | into the crypt—pintails, snipes, ducks, who fed on the fish
1938 XVIII| hair was bound with the “snood,” the usual head-dress of
1939 X | Alpine guides do on their snowy peaks in daylight he could
1940 VI | lips tight together, he snuffed the air several times.~Then,
1941 VI | overman had related of the so-called “monk” or “fireman” was
1942 XIII | merry fellow. “While you soar to the heights, I plunge
1943 XVIII| claw the lighted match, soared upwards to the vaulted roof,
1944 XVII | perilous occupation, by soaring with a lighted match to
1945 XII | eyes, which had appeared to soften as Harry looked at her,
1946 XVI | hatred which time never softens. Go back to recollections
1947 VII | old overman. Ten years’ sojourn in the deserted mine, an
1948 XIV | fell into the order of the solar. Every instant they increased
1949 XVI | quite possible that the solemn act of her marriage with
1950 XVI | night with a sort of stern solicitude. The poor child yielded
1951 VII | epoch, when the mass was solidifying, nature had already multiplied
1952 XIV | was just going to begin a sonnet to the moon, but your barber’
1953 II | that are due the different sorts of coal, of which industry
1954 XIII | the friends. Their voices sounded faintly to each other. Harry,
1955 II | the palace of the former sovereigns of Scotland. He did not
1956 XV | appeared, as though thickly sown on the bosom of the lake.
1957 XIV | James Starr, “that the spacious firmament appears to us
1958 III | better to my hand than the spade or hoe. And then, in the
1959 XIII | diligently, during all his spare time, to the work of Nell’
1960 III | ground to-day, I would have spared myself going down the Yarrow
1961 XIV | And what are those shining sparks which glance here and there
1962 IX | nothing remained but a few spars, washed up by the waves,
1963 XVI | evil intentions seeming specially designed to injure Harry.
1964 III | naturally escaped by this species of inverted siphon.~“I will
1965 III | altogether made him a fine specimen of a lowlander. Accustomed
1966 XIV | collected and set forth specimens of every one of these terrestrial
1967 XIV | silence on the glorious spectacle. The soft silvery light
1968 XIV | Fife, while beneath the spectator stretched the yellow sands
1969 II | for an instant checked his speculations on this subject, but now
1970 XIV | northwesterly breeze, and they sped on their way.~What a new
1971 XI | hands and knees.~An obstacle speedily arrested his progress. He
1972 III | forethought by forming our sphere principally of sandstone,
1973 II | epoch, when the terrestrial spheroid was still in course of formation,
1974 VIII | the oil of the lamp was spilt, and it was of no further
1975 XIII | t expect her to remain a spinster?”~“I expect nothing,” said
1976 II | zoophytes, star-fish, polypi, spirifores, even fish and lizards brought
1977 XVII | never imagined that the spiteful being we have so long sought
1978 XIV | across the Queen’s Drive, a splendid carriageway encircling the
1979 XIII | wonders— the sky and its splendors. She will perceive that
1980 VII | and soon the rock flew in splinters under his skillful blows.
1981 XIV | to allow ideas to arise spontaneously in her soul.~At about half
1982 II | tartan kilt, plaid and sporran complete. His whole thought
1983 XVIII| plumage was marked with black spots, was seen hovering directly
1984 IX | confined to his bed. A few sprains and bruises were not quite
1985 XVIII| be no more.~Suddenly Nell sprang from Harry’s arms, and,
1986 VII | pit; and the fire-damp, spreading through the atmosphere,
1987 IV | as a hydroscope reveals springs in the bowels of the earth.
1988 X | Those columns supported a spur of the Grampian mountains.
1989 IX | The night was pitchy dark. Squalls of wind and rain swept along
1990 XII | communicated with lower stages of the crypt, hollowed out
1991 XVIII| lamps shed a glow over the stained-glass windows, which shone like
1992 XIII | stepping onto the moving staircase.~“I say! you seem to mean
1993 XVI | place in consequence of the stanchions of a water-tank giving way;
1994 III | winter, field work is at a standstill. But formerly, at whatever
1995 II | also shells, zoophytes, star-fish, polypi, spirifores, even
1996 IX | foremast, a green on the starboard side, and a red on the outside.
1997 XIV | the beach, reflecting the starlight. “Is this a lake?” said
1998 XV | on board; it was about to start. Loch Katrine is only ten
1999 IX | ten days, were dying of starvation. They must have perished
2000 XVIII| after having passed in stately procession along the shore
2001 VIII | our brethren of the United States through the subsoil of the
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