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2002 III | and more rapidly than the statistics make out!”~“That will happen,
2003 XVII | Harfang, which faithfully stayed by me, to follow him. I
2004 XVI | days afterwards, on the steam tramway, a train of trucks,
2005 XV | of the lake. The SINCLAIR steamed her way among them, while
2006 XV | Loch Arklet on the left, a steep ascent led to the Inn of
2007 XIV | Lofty monuments, slender steeples emerged from the gloom;
2008 XV | Nell carefully down the steeps of Arthur’s Seat, and, accompanied
2009 IV | the “cockyleeky,” a cock stewed with leeks, which merited
2010 VII | better than in the perfect stillness of the cottage.~The following
2011 XII | in the coal mines, but in Stirlingshire, and ultimately throughout
2012 XII | eyes that his feelings were stirred to their depths. “You were
2013 III | taken the place of the more stirring, active, industrial life.
2014 I | The underground working stock, traction engines, trucks
2015 VIII | Swansea and Cardiff! Well, stokers will quarrel for it still,
2016 XI | out of the pit. He had to stoop to look into it, and only
2017 XI | is rendered impossible by stoppage of fissures. Notwithstanding
2018 VI | an undeniable fact— the stopping-up of cracks through which
2019 XVIII| every indication that a storm might burst forth beneath
2020 IV | of daylight. A few rays straggled in through the opening of
2021 VIII | bed of the Atlantic like a strainer; let us with our picks join
2022 XII | throughout the kingdom. The strangeness of the story was exaggerated;
2023 IX | visited. Sometimes a few strangers took it into their heads
2024 III | PIT~HARRY FORD was a fine, strapping fellow of five and twenty.
2025 IX | and there performing wild strathspeys, especially on dark nights.
2026 V | to this depth in the coal stratum. Had the object of the explosion
2027 IX | Castle, a refuge for all the stray goblins of the country,
2028 VIII | Either the explorers had strayed from the right path on their
2029 XIV | even Jack Ryan. A faint streak of pale rose tinted the
2030 XVIII| been blocked up.~Jets and streams of the fire-damp now rose
2031 VIII | minutes, their ears on the stretch, without uttering a word.
2032 X | being whose intervention, strictly speaking, had saved himself
2033 XI | temperature existed instead of the strife of the elements which raged
2034 VII | star, and, connected by a string of canals, would well complete
2035 XII | occasionally been released by a stroke of the pickax from their
2036 XII | Madge took her hand, and stroked it caressingly. “How old
2037 XV | ascent led to the Inn of Stronachlacar, on the banks of Loch Katrine.~
2038 XII | little more food, she will be stronger. Come away, Simon and Harry,
2039 XV | where stand some ruins of a stronghold of the clan MacFarlane.
2040 I | viewer. James Starr was a strongly-constituted man, on whom his fifty-five
2041 XI | known only to himself, he strove to keep us out of it. WAS
2042 XII | garment of coarse woolen stuff, seemed to impress them
2043 X | gently sloped straight to the stupendous crypt, hollowed out so strangely
2044 VIII | Mr. Starr,” replied the sturdy Scotchwoman; “we have been
2045 VII | curves allowed of every style, the massive walls between
2046 II | to which they have been subjected, are found veins of graphite
2047 XVII | talk to me on very lofty subjects. He taught me the existence
2048 XIV | purity of the air and the sublimity of the scene, she sank fainting
2049 II | roving waves bore over the submerged and now peaty forests, and
2050 XVI | Scotland until (by public subscription) it could be refilled, care
2051 XVI | seen, the waters having subsided below the level of these
2052 I | driven to seek the means of subsistence elsewhere, and they waited
2053 VII | The following day, after a substantial breakfast, James Starr,
2054 II | Thus there was one kingdom substituted for another in this slow
2055 XII | Stirling as well as in its subterraneous domains. Parties of holiday-makers
2056 XIV | deserted streets. To Nell, this suburb of the capital appeared
2057 XIII | continued to be carried on very successfully. As a matter of course,
2058 VI | Harry took the stick, and successively presented the lamp to the
2059 XII | the thin face, drawn by suffering, the pallid complexion,
2060 XII | dome. This imperfect light suited Nell, to whose eyes a glare
2061 XIV | along the horizon; the first sunbeam would dissipate it; to the
2062 XI | to gayety of manner.~One Sunday—it was in the month of June—
2063 X | be thought that Jack Ryan sung no more. On the contrary,
2064 IV | good dinner, for we may not sup till late.”~As the engineer
2065 XIV | to say, Jack, is that the superior brilliancy of the moon eclipses
2066 II | elements of rocks which were to superpose the coal strata. In course
2067 IX | his men, little given to superstition, darted off in the direction
2068 V | great partisan of all these superstitions. All these wild stories
2069 VII | the cottage. The engineer supped with good appetite, listening
2070 IV | the good woman.~“A good supper, wife, do you hear?” exclaimed
2071 IV | men in the district which supplies so many fine fellows to
2072 IX | There was even an ample supply of provisions, enough to
2073 XVIII| Harry left the cottage, supporting his mother on his arm, while
2074 II | Callander where Harry Ford was supposedly awaiting him.~The better
2075 IX | struck. The white line of surf was broken for an instant;
2076 XI | is broken, utter darkness surrounds us. Nevertheless, we make
2077 XVI | engaged in a close and candid survey of his past life. Presently,
2078 VIII | wondered if he ought to suspect the hand of a mysterious
2079 XVI | that they had been right in suspecting that the massive columns
2080 V | throwing a bright light into a suspicious-looking cleft in the rock, he thought
2081 XI | strong—sufficiently so to sustain his weight. His friends
2082 VII | research, perfect faith, sustained by a marvelous mining instinct—
2083 IX | friends by getting them to swallow a few drops of brandy. They
2084 XVIII| waters of the lake, and swam vigorously towards the canoe.~
2085 VIII | strong competition with Swansea and Cardiff! Well, stokers
2086 IX | which Ryan could positively swear. It was clear that on the
2087 I | than the Eastern Indies to swell the surprising wealth of
2088 III | like a sonorous billow, swelling as it advanced, and becoming
2089 XI | As the rope caused him to swing gently round and round,
2090 XVI | galleries, and the wooden swing-doors slammed beneath their violent
2091 XVII | his anger burst forth. He swore that, were you to succeed
2092 XVI | an implacable enemy has sworn the ruin of New Aberfoyle,
2093 XII | compassion, wonder, and sympathy. The state of this poor
2094 IX | fishermen, “and now they want to tack, but it’s too late!”~“Do
2095 XIX | furnished Jack Ryan with many a tale and song. Thanks to him,
2096 VII | circulated through their tangled network. These fields extended
2097 VII | them. As soon as the long, tarred safety match was laid, it
2098 V | son was to go on with the task alone.~It was during these
2099 XIV | widely as to resemble a gulf. Taste a little of the water in
2100 IV | same opinions, ideas, and tastes. Yes, they were quite fond
2101 IV | there was no fear that tax gatherers, or rent collectors
2102 XVII | silent; the dog he could not teach to be quiet, so the poor
2103 XIV | possibly be. You have been teaching me. Why is that not enough?
2104 VIII | the globe if necessary, to tear out the last scrap of coal.”~“
2105 II | rushed where they liked, tearing from the scarcely-formed
2106 VIII | of foundering.”~“I won’t tease you, then, old Simon,” answered
2107 XIII | while from between his set teeth issued these words in muttered
2108 XVII | more and more savage in temper the deeper the Dochart pit—
2109 V | Who shakes the seam during tempestuous nights? who puts the miners
2110 V | had always resisted this temptation. They in no degree believed
2111 XI | Harry! that will be a tempting of Providence.”~“No, Jack,
2112 IX | days.~The absence of the tenants of the cottage was quite
2113 IV | gude-wife,” to use the Scotch term, was a tall, strong, comely
2114 I | manager, or, as he would be termed in English coal-mines, the
2115 VI | had been blasted, near the termination of the working. The schist
2116 XV | betook themselves to the terminus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow
2117 VII | deserted such riches. Human termites had never gnawed away this
2118 XVIII| on which was formed the terrace overhanging the banks of
2119 XVI | feeling homesick?~Just then a terrific roaring noise was heard.
2120 VII | lakes, rivers, gulfs, and territories of the counties of Stirling,
2121 XVIII| heart to beat, or her inward terrors to betray themselves, and
2122 IX | apparitions frequently furnished a text for the evening stories.
2123 | thence
2124 XIII | were far from displeased thereat. They recollected that Simon
2125 XV | peak rises from amidst the thicket of oaks, birches, and heather,
2126 XII | for several nights in the thickets of brushwood which clothed
2127 XV | soon appeared, as though thickly sown on the bosom of the
2128 VIII | The roof cannot have much thickness just here, if the noise
2129 XVIII| either by purchasing or thieving).~As to the “fire-maidens,”
2130 XI | was fastened round Harry’s thighs and under his arms, to keep
2131 IV | companions-in-arms. At the end of the thirteenth century, a license for the
2132 IX | shaft until he had left the thirtieth. Once there, he would have
2133 XIV | to-morrow, is only distant thirty-eight millions of leagues, and
2134 VII | rivers, eight cataracts, thirty-two unfathomable wells, and
2135 XII | or mother ever carried me thither. I am sure I should have
2136 II | leapt from the necks of thousands of millions of seltzer water
2137 XI | CHAPTER XI HANGING BY A THREAD~ALTHOUGH in this way the
2138 XI | well, no accident seemed to threaten him, when suddenly he heard
2139 XVI | hastening to the spot, read the threatening sentences again and again.~“
2140 XVII | return to my grandfather. He threatens to destroy the whole of
2141 XVI | sooner had she crossed the threshold than a cry of indescribable
2142 XI | across the passage. A sudden thrill of horror and surprise made
2143 XI | together, my laugh sticks in my throat; I’m forgetting all my songs.
2144 XIII | I promise you!”~A fresh throb of the machinery placed
2145 II | malevolent intention to thwart Ford’s plans?~This was the
2146 | Thy
2147 XIV | salt,” said she.~“Yes, the tide is full; the sea water flows
2148 VII | movement of currents or tides; no old castle was reflected
2149 XV | to me by the most sacred tie? Could you marry me, Nell?”~“
2150 XI | have the rope pulled up.~It tightened at once; he began the ascent.
2151 IX | brig MOTALA, laden with timber, and bound for Glasgow.
2152 XII | which light could never have tinged, and the fragile, slender
2153 XIV | faint streak of pale rose tinted the light vapors of the
2154 XIV | soon to be illuminated by tips of fire.~Now the distant
2155 X | bore the rather ambitious title of Coal Town.~Arrived in
2156 XIV | opposite to the sun. But to-night the moon is in the last
2157 XVI | Simon smoked a good pipe of tobacco, and from time to time the
2158 IV | saved during a long life of toil, Ford could have afforded
2159 XII | escaped from that living tomb!”~“And how do you know about
2160 XI | will aid me in the attempt. Tomorrow, you and some of our comrades
2161 IX | near the landing of the topmost ladder. It had disappeared.~“
2162 VI | above his head a blazing torch. When the firedamp had accumulated
2163 XII | doubt it was the light of torches waved by them during that
2164 II | carbonic acid, rushed in torrents over a deep soft soil, subject
2165 VIII | opposite wall— the darkness totally concealed; but by the light
2166 XIV | my feet seem scarcely to touch the earth,” returned she. “
2167 XV | tourists gazed upon Ben Lomond, towering nearly 3,000 feet above
2168 XIV | with its four embattled towers, is not unlike some handsome
2169 V | who puts the miners on the track of an as yet unworked vein?
2170 V | county of Stirling a vast tract, full of burrows, tunnels,
2171 V | so as not to let the old traditions be lost.~Even had Simon
2172 XVI | gusts. In the lower tunnels, trains of trucks kept passing along
2173 V | could never have described a trajectory as it did.~Harry saw in
2174 XVI | afterwards, on the steam tramway, a train of trucks, which
2175 XVIII| precautions taken, and became more tranquil, although she was not free
2176 II | reaction. The vegetable was transformed into a mineral. Plants which
2177 V | another. These accounts were transmitted with marvelous rapidity,
2178 III | Starr felt as if he was traversing a desert.~The engineer gazed
2179 I | for the last time to the tread of miners’ feet, and silence
2180 XVIII| There being no fear of treason among the inhabitants of
2181 III | we worked, of course the treasures of coal would have been
2182 XIV | sound of the breeze in the tree-tops, the deep silence during
2183 XVII | threats used to make me tremble.”~“Go on, Nell, my child,”
2184 XII | I say yes; because Nell trembles when we mention them— yes,
2185 XII | Nell,” added he in a voice tremulous with emotion, “already owed
2186 VIII | enthusiasm; “let us cut our trenches under the waters of the
2187 XIV | childhood. Harry, with a little trepidation, asked himself whether it
2188 XIX | loving hearts, after the trials they had gone through found
2189 IX | the schistous rocks.~To trim their lamps, spring forward,
2190 XVI | wondered how they liked their trip to the surface of the earth.
2191 XIII | intelligence more quickly triumph over utter ignorance. It
2192 VI | after that, and when the truck rolled towards the shaft,
2193 IV | old miners who would be truly pleased to have only a partition
2194 III | through a vast speaking trumpet; and soon a few words of
2195 XII | whom by degrees she learnt truths concerning the outer world,
2196 XI | light of his lamp fell in turns on all points of the side
2197 X | a castellated entrance, turrets and battlements. This lofty
2198 IV | lived in Belgium in the twelfth century, we may affirm that
2199 VII | contain two hundred and twenty-six avenues, eleven lakes, seven
2200 IX | thus until he got to the twenty-sixth landing, and consequently
2201 XIV | massed confusedly in the twilight of dawn. Here and there
2202 XIV | dawn. Here and there lights twinkled among the houses of the
2203 IX | Dundonald Castle. A long flame twisted and bent under the gale,
2204 XV | From thence one may see two-thirds of old Caledonia. This eastern
2205 IV | He was par excellence the type of a miner whose whole existence
2206 XV | of Loch Katrine, as those ugly ghosts on Loch Malcolm in
2207 XVI | vast mine, and its only ultimate effect was to raise the
2208 I | evidently directed by a hand unaccustomed to the use of a pen. James
2209 XVI | project to no one. To those unacquainted with the group of facts
2210 VII | it continued to burn with unaltered brilliancy. “Now then, Harry,
2211 X | will add that without that unapproachable goblin—”~“Ah, there we are!”
2212 XII | Starr was obliged to remain uncertain; indeed, any allusion to
2213 XVI | everyone suffered from the most uncomfortable forebodings.~It was perfectly
2214 XII | she seemed to him to be an uncommonly interesting kind of ghost.~
2215 XII | hours later, Harry still unconscious, and the child in a very
2216 VI | were in the presence of an undeniable fact— the stopping-up of
2217 VII | left it. The crevices had undergone no alteration; the carburetted
2218 XVI | massive columns had been undermined by blasting. The blackened
2219 VI | bear you!” The young man understood in an instant. His father
2220 XVI | month. Mr. Starr, will you undertake the part of Nell’s father?”~“
2221 IX | exploration of the mine, undertaken by the engineer, account
2222 VII | lies a carboniferous bed, undiscovered by our soundings. It is
2223 XII | shock. About that time Harry unexpectedly made a discovery which,
2224 VII | eight cataracts, thirty-two unfathomable wells, and fifty-seven domes,
2225 II | earth’s crust, below the unfixed strata, either until they
2226 VII | satisfaction to all the plans unfolded by the old overman; and
2227 XVI | were rising. A great wave, unfurling like a billow, swept up
2228 XVII | me. At last, in a fit of ungovernable fury, he threw me down into
2229 VII | Harry, lamp in hand, entered unhesitatingly, and disappeared in the
2230 II | gateways, dressed in the uniform of their Highland regiment,
2231 XVI | few feet. Coal Town was uninjured, and it was reasonable to
2232 I | the future will ever again unite the scattered members. But
2233 VI | mixture as soon as the air unites with it in a proportion
2234 VI | until the Davy lamp was universally adopted. But I knew the
2235 VIII | New Aberfoyle mine by an unjust comparison! I only meant
2236 | unlikely
2237 XVII | dog he said it was. But, unluckily, this dog was lively, and
2238 XII | whose eyes a glare was very unpleasant.~“Nell,” said Harry, “your
2239 IX | landing a rope ladder, which unrolled itself down the shaft, and
2240 V | agreed that the search, unsuccessful to-day, might succeed to-morrow,
2241 XIV | lead Nell’s steps over yet untrodden paths, and to show her the
2242 XII | these few words like one unused to speak much. They were
2243 XI | mine.~The cord continued to unwind. Darkness and silence were
2244 XI | and the cord slackened and unwound no further.~Harry breathed
2245 XVIII| of the fire-damp now rose upward in the vaulted dome; and
2246 XVI | and that some interest urges him to seek in every possible
2247 XVIII| fire-damp!” yelled the old man, urging his canoe further along
2248 X | of the Fire-Maidens, an Urisk, whatever you like! It’s
2249 II | troubling himself either uselessly or otherwise? Might there
2250 I | appropriated to so many different uses, locomotives, steamers,
2251 IV | Ford, followed by Harry, ushered their guest into the dwelling.
2252 IV | a few small glasses of “usquebaugh,” capital whisky, five and
2253 III | will be more completely utilized. But no matter! Coal is
2254 XIV | silence. Nell was giving utterance to nearly his own thoughts.~“
2255 VIII | on the stretch, without uttering a word. All at once Simon
2256 V | CHAPTER V SOME STRANGE PHENOMENA~MANY
2257 XII | She gazed at them with vague and wondering eyes; and
2258 XV | glimpses could be had of quiet valleys, or wild rocky gorges on
2259 VII | these useless strata ran valuable veins of coal, as if the
2260 XV | whole of its contents had vanished into the bosom of the earth.~“
2261 X | escapes like a fairy, and vanishes like a shadow! Don’t be
2262 XIV | horizon to the zenith, light vapory clouds hurried through the
2263 XIV | the gloomy pit; all the varied aspects of the globe, towns,
2264 XV | gladly to know the harmonious varieties of color as they rested
2265 III | stone, Harry! Ah! these old vaultings are no longer quite secure,
2266 XII | places beneath the sonorous vaults of New Aberfoyle. Harry
2267 XIII | I am glad to see you. I’ve got something to propose.”~“
2268 XIV | whose rays can reach us, is Vega, that star in Lyra which
2269 II | Plants which had lived the vegeta-tive life in all the vigor of
2270 II | caused a peculiar form of vegetation, such as is probably produced
2271 XV | British fogs which so often veil the skies.~The passengers
2272 XIV | changeful clouds, serene or veiled moon, their radiant sun,
2273 III | of the air inhaled by the ventilators. It was now a silent abyss.
2274 VIII | showed that certain natural vents placed it in communication
2275 XV | framed between Ben An and Ben Venue. At the distance of half
2276 II | of the inferior planets, Venus or Mercury, which revolve
2277 IX | have preserved the least vestige.~The result of all this
2278 VII | by our soundings. It is vexatious that all the apparatus of
2279 VI | CHAPTER VI SIMON FORD’S EXPERIMENT~
2280 | VIA
2281 II | vegeta-tive life in all the vigor of first creation became
2282 VII | CHAPTER VII NEW ABERFOYLE~THE old overman’
2283 VIII | CHAPTER VIII EXPLORING~AT Harry’s call,
2284 XII | the conclusion that the villains had been finally dislodged
2285 XVIII| Silfax. The old man having vindictively declared that Nell should
2286 XIV | therefore, cannot affect your vision. But our own sun, which
2287 V | one month, Harry, whilst visiting the west end of the pit,
2288 XI | extremities, there was some vital heat remaining. In less
2289 XII | electric brilliance darted less vividly, and the rays were interrupted
2290 XII | of the mine. And then the voice-like sounds! Ah, Harry! one must
2291 II | being almost destitute of volatile matter, contains the greatest
2292 III | the mouth of some extinct volcano.~When the mine was being
2293 III | cylindrical or prismatic chimney vomited out smoke, after being fed
2294 XV | during the thirty miles’ voyage. Nell, seated between James
2295 X | fail, allured by the high wages which the prosperity of
2296 IX | fastening ropes round their waists, they rushed into the waves
2297 IX | on board the Prince of Wales. He disembarked the same
2298 III | James Starr was still a good walker, yet he could not easily
2299 XVII | Living in the mine, and wandering about day and night, he
2300 XV | were the willows, slender wands of which were formerly used
2301 II | of bed, dressed himself warmly, for a cold rain was falling,
2302 II | Ford, rather than to the warning of his anonymous contradictor.~“
2303 II | than the affair perhaps warranted.~The next day, at five o’
2304 VIII | But once more, Mr. Starr, wasn’t my communication worth
2305 I | Overmen, brakemen, putters, wastemen, barrowmen, masons, smiths,
2306 XVI | the others worked without wasting an hour.~Old Simon Ford
2307 XII | discovery of the entrance. Watchers were placed among the ruins
2308 XVI | consequence of the stanchions of a water-tank giving way; and Mr. Starr
2309 II | surrounded it, saturated with watery vapors, and copiously impregnated
2310 XVI | Malcolm were rising. A great wave, unfurling like a billow,
2311 XIV | glittering silver field. Little wavelets rippled along the banks.
2312 XV | which they entered at the Waverley Station, conveyed Nell and
2313 XII | hobgoblins was in a measure weakened. A couple of months later
2314 X | eighteen months since they were weaned, and they have not yet seen
2315 VII | No, Simon, no indeed! You wear better than I do, my old
2316 IV | only to return each day, wearied, but not in despair, to
2317 XVIII| fashion of days gone by, wearing the “toy” and the “rokelay,”
2318 XVI | child, and in which her wedded life would be spent, was
2319 XIII | I hope in a month or six weeks—”~“To marry her, Harry?”~“
2320 XII | which she dares not reveal, weighs on her mind. It may also
2321 IV | years well. Tall, robust, well-built, he would have been regarded
2322 IV | movement, and life in the well-worked pit. He was, however, supported
2323 VII | thirty-two unfathomable wells, and fifty-seven domes,
2324 IV | is made of the Scotch and Welsh beds.~It was about this
2325 XIV | Harry, “blown along by the westerly wind.”~“Ah!” said Nell, “
2326 VI | farthest gallery in its western part, because he had provoked
2327 XVI | there was not left enough to wet the pretty foot of the Lady
2328 III | and sing than to cry and whine!”~“You’re right there, Jack
2329 XIV | carried along in that silent whirl! And what are those shining
2330 IV | of “usquebaugh,” capital whisky, five and twenty years old—
2331 XI | to explore this abyss?” whispered Jack Ryan.~“Yes, I am, Jack.”~
2332 III | could be heard the powerful whistle of the air inhaled by the
2333 III | longer filled with distant whistlings and the panting of engines.
2334 VI | leaving on the rock a long whitish mark, badly concealed with
2335 XVI | could not fail to appear wholly inadmissible.~A few days
2336 XVII | believed myself in the power of wicked wretches, and I longed to
2337 XIV | sea, and soon opening so widely as to resemble a gulf. Taste
2338 VI | gallery at this end of the pit widened into a sort of dark cave.
2339 VII | grow young again, like a widow who remarries! The bustle
2340 XI | upon Harry, who could only wield his knife in one hand. He
2341 IV | where his ancestors had wielded the pick, the crowbar, and
2342 XV | there; among them were the willows, slender wands of which
2343 XI | Nothing venture nothing win,” said Harry, in a tone
2344 IX | There was no light in the window. Ryan darted to the door,
2345 XIV | feel as if I could take wing and fly!”~“I say! keep hold
2346 VI | trembling hand. He drew off the wire gauze case which surrounded
2347 X | mine by disconnecting the wires.~Below the dome lay a lake
2348 II | it. Starr also thought it wiser to give more credence to
2349 XI | was to be the signal to withdraw him.~The opening into this
2350 I | outside and inside laborers, women, children, and old men,
2351 XII | in the dark her sight was wonderfully keen, the pupil dilated
2352 XII | gazed at them with vague and wondering eyes; and the thin face,
2353 XIII | have seen the earth and its wonders— the sky and its splendors.
2354 XVI | Thus, for instance, the wood-work of a distant gallery was
2355 VI | roof of which rested on woodwork, covered with white moss.
2356 III | another sheep with silky wool, like those in a child’s
2357 XII | miserable garment of coarse woolen stuff, seemed to impress
2358 I | a single sentence, thus worded:~“It is useless for the
2359 X | fatigue to a level with the workings, at fifteen hundred feet
2360 X | jovial companion, a good workman. Six months after the works
2361 IX | round, as some of them were worm-eaten. A false step would entail
2362 IX | fellow was therefore only worried by Harry’s absence, telling
2363 XVIII| reality nerved to expect the worst, and Jack Ryan, stepping
2364 IV | clan to our mine! Harry wouldn’t do it!”~“Simon,” said
2365 VI | up, all his body tightly wrapped in a thick felt cloak, crawled
2366 XIV | Canongate. The town still lay wrapt in slumber.~Nell pointed
2367 XVI | in every possible way to wreak his hatred upon us. He appears
2368 XII | rocky coast, and like the wreckers of former days, they would
2369 III | had formerly lived. A few wretched trees bordered a plain where
2370 XVII | myself in the power of wicked wretches, and I longed to escape.
2371 III | first act was to vigorously wring the hand which Harry extended
2372 VI | that of the engineer, and, wringing it:~“That day we were all
2373 XIII | taught her to read and to write, and such rapid progress
2374 IV | his son, “Do you know the writing?” he asked.~“No, father,”
2375 II | between the two letters only wrought in him a more keen desire
2376 XI | CHAPTER XI HANGING BY A THREAD~ALTHOUGH
2377 XII | CHAPTER XII NELL ADOPTED~A COUPLE of
2378 XIII | CHAPTER XIII ON THE REVOLVING LADDER~
2379 XIV | CHAPTER XIV A SUNRISE~A MONTH after
2380 XIX | CHAPTER XIX THE LEGEND OF OLD SILFAX~
2381 XV | CHAPTER XV LOCH LOMOND AND LOCH KATRINE~
2382 XVI | CHAPTER XVI A FINAL THREAT~ON that day,
2383 XVII | CHAPTER XVII THE “MONK”~THIS name revealed
2384 XVIII| CHAPTER XVIII NELL’S WEDDING~IT was agreed
2385 VIII | follow my example, before a year is over there will be one
2386 IX | man was interrupted by a yell from Jack. Could the crew
2387 XVIII| Here comes the fire-damp!” yelled the old man, urging his
2388 XIV | spectator stretched the yellow sands of Portobello and
2389 I | contained only a scrap of paper, yellowed by time, and apparently
2390 IV | would it be? A girl from up yonder, who would love merry-makings
2391 XIX | watching for his friend of yore? Did he strive to pierce,
2392 III | during the first years of his youth, the pick was never out
2393 XIV | ready to support her.~The youthful maiden, hitherto entombed
2394 XII | become a most intelligent and zealous assistant to old Madge.
2395 IV | trade. During long years he zealously performed his duty. His
2396 II | done.~Thus also shells, zoophytes, star-fish, polypi, spirifores,
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