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Chapter Twenty Five.
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Buried alive—But not killed—The giant in the snow-storm.
The event which prevented the excursion referred to in the last chapter was neither more nor less than a snowstorm. “Was that all?” say you, reader? Nay1, that was not all. Independently of the fact that it was a snowstorm the like of which you have never seen, unless you have travelled in northern climes, it was a snow-storm that produced results. Of these, more hereafter.
The storm began with a sigh—a mysterious sigh, that swept over the mountains of Ungava with a soft, mournful wail2, and died slowly away in the distant glen of the Caniapuscaw, as if the spirit of the north wind grieved to think of the withering3 desolation it was about to launch upon the land.
The gathering4 clouds that preceded and accompanied this sigh induced Frank Morton to countermand5 his orders for the intended journey. In order to console Edith for the disappointment, he went with her into the hall, and, drawing a low stool towards the blazing stove, placed a draught6-board upon it. Then he placed another and a lower stool beside the first, on which he seated Edith. Spreading a deerskin robe upon the ground, he stretched himself thereon at full length, and began to arrange the men.
The hall, which was formerly7 such a comfortless apartment, was now invested with that degree of comfort which always gathers, more or less, round a place that is continually occupied. The ceiling was composed of a carpet of deerskin stretched tightly upon the beams. The walls were hung all round with the thick heavy coats and robes of leather and fur belonging to the inmates8, and without which they never ventured abroad. The iron stove in the centre of the apartment, with its pipe to conduct away the smoke, and its radiant fire of logs, emitted a cheerful glow in its
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使人畏缩的,使人害羞的,使人难堪的 | |
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lulls
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