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CHAPTER XXIII. THE HORN OF DIARMAID SOUNDS.
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We reached the gap, and made slantwise across the farther hill. I did not dare to go clown Clearwater Glen, and, besides, I was aiming for a point farther south than the Rappahannock. In my wanderings with Shalah I had got a pretty good idea of the lie of the mountains on their eastern side, and I had remarked a long ridge1 which flung itself like a cape2 far into the lowlands. If we could leave the hills by this, I thought we might strike the stream called the North Fork, which would bring us in time to the neighbourhood of Frew's dwelling3. The ridges4 were our only safe path, for they were thickly overgrown with woods, and the Indian bands were less likely to choose them for a route. The danger was in the glens, where the trees were sparser5 and the broad stretches of meadow made better going for horses.
The movement of my legs made me pluck up heart. I was embarked6 at any rate in a venture, and had got rid of my desperate indecision. The two of us held close together, and chose the duskiest thickets8, crawling belly-wise over the little clear patches and avoiding the crown of the ridge like the plague. The weather helped us, for the skies hung grey and low, with wisps of vapour curling among the trees. The glens were pits of mist, and my only guide was my recollection of what I had seen, and the easterly course of the streams.
By midday we had mounted to the crest9 of a long scarp which fell away in a narrow and broken promontory11 towards the plains. So far we had seen nothing to give us pause, and the only risk lay in some Indian finding and following our trail. We lay close in a scrubby wood, and rested for a little, while we ate some food. Everything around us dripped with moisture, and I could have
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乘船( embark的过去式和过去分词 ); 装载; 从事 | |
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绞( wring的过去式和过去分词 ); 握紧(尤指别人的手); 把(湿衣服)拧干; 绞掉(水) | |
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bonnet
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figures 数字,图形,外形 | |
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providence
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manor
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