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Twice that day, misled by following the track of the deer, had they returned to the samespot, a deep and lovely glen, which had once been a watercourse, but was now a green and shady valley. This they named the Valley of the Rock, from a remarkable block of red granite that occupied a central position in the narrow defile; and here they prepared to pass their second night on the Plains.

Still calling upon the fugitive, he made his way to the garden paling through the defile of the peas. No one was there a broad, open bed lay on either hand, and before him the fence. At last he observed a foot-print in the earth near the paling, and a rustling sound beyond.

It took some little time to make the change, but finally the work was done. The broken runner was cast aside, and there were now two good sleds, one ahead of the other in the snowy defile.

For Spain or vengeance! And forthwith On either side along the whole defile, The Asturians shouting: 'In the name of God! Set the whole ruin loose: huge trunks, and stones, And loosened crags, down, down they rolled with rush And bound and thundering force."

Pitying his strait for he was almost beside himself as thoughts of Kiwyeh's sultan, his extortion and rudeness, swept across his mind I advised him to run after his caravan, and tell it, as all the rest had taken the other road, to think of the Sultan of Kiwyeh. Before reaching the Kiti defile I was aware that Hamed's caravan was following us.

The Chinaman did not know what it meant, so he looked for a way to get up close to Jim and the girls without being seen by them. If he went on through the narrow defile he could not do it. Then he looked up and, much to his satisfaction, he saw a place that could be climbed quite easily, he thought. He decided to go on up, and then work his way along until he was directly above those in waiting.

Sholto kept his company very close behind him as they rode up the High-street, a gloomy defile of tall houses dotted from topmost window to pavement with the heads of chattering goodwives, and the flutter of household clothing hung out to dry. At the first defences of the castle Douglas called Sholto and said: "Your fellows are to be lodged here on the Castle Hill.

This done he set out for Malade River, with a band of twenty-eight men composed of hired and free trappers and Indian hunters, together with eight squaws. Their route lay up along the right fork of Salmon River, as it passes through the deep defile of the mountains.

The speed with which Wellington fell back baffled his calculations and, by the time he approached Viseu, the whole British army was united, near Coimbra. His march had been delayed two days, by an attack made by Trant and Terence upon the advanced guard, as it was making its way through a defile.

But the saddest thing of all was the grief of the dark little woman, with the humble, delicate look; her husband, a handsome fellow, took himself off under her very nose, and so brutally indeed that he almost knocked her down, and she went home alone, stumbling past the shops and weeping all the tears in her body. At last the defile finished.