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CHAPTER XII SPEED THE PLOW
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Winter had fled back beyond the barrens to the lonely North at last, and though here and there a little slushy snow still lay soaking the black loam1 in a hollow, a warm wind swept the vast levels, when one morning Colonel Barrington rode with his niece and sister across the prairie. Spring comes suddenly in that region, and the frost-bleached sod was steaming under an effulgent2 sun, while in places a hardy3 flower peeped through. It was six hundred miles to the forests on the Rockies' eastern slope, and as far to the Athabascan pines, but it seemed to Maud Barrington that their resinous4 sweetness was in the glorious western wind, which awoke a musical sighing from the sea of rippling5 grass. It rolled away before her in billows of lustrous6 silver-gray, and had for sole boundary the first upward spring of the arch of cloudless blue, across which the vanguard of the feathered host pressed on, company by company, towards the Pole.
The freshness of it all stirred her blood like wine, and the brightness that flooded the prairie had crept into her eyes, for those who bear the iron winter of that lonely land realize the wonder of the reawakening, which in a little space of days dresses the waste, that has lain for long months white and silent as the dead, in living green. It also has its subtle significance that the grimmest toiler7 feels, and the essence of it is hope eternal and triumphant9 life. The girl felt the thrill of it, and gave thanks by an answering brightness, as the murmuring grasses and peeping flowerets did, but there was behind her instinctive10 gladness a vague wonder and expectancy
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toiler
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辛劳者,勤劳者 | |
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virgin
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loyalty
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unreasonable
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virtue
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rein
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relaxations
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draconic
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entrust
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