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Hidden from view of the besieged by the drifting smoke from the fire a young warrior had clambered until he reached the crotch and there had drawn up the rifle and belt tied by his comrades to a "lariat."
Relaxing almost totally, he watched a small cloud drifting in the clear green sky. The sun's gentle warmth on his fur was thoroughly enjoyable. It was indeed a pleasant change, he mused, to be able to relish such a day with no duties to interfere. His position as High Adept made such luxuries all too rare. Corina's lessons were a self-imposed duty, one he was pleased he had assumed.
Placing her on a lower pedestal in her self-esteem, the philosophy of youth revived her; and if the abatement of her personal pride was dispiriting, she began to see an advantage in getting inward eyes. 'It's infinitely better I should know it, Emmy I'm a reptile! Pleasure here, pleasure there, I'm always thinking of pleasure. I shall give up thinking and take to drifting.
Canal Street was finer, and more attractive and stirring than formerly, with its drifting crowds of people, its several processions of hurrying street-cars, and toward evening its broad second-story verandas crowded with gentlemen and ladies clothed according to the latest mode.
I've often seen the smoke from the hill at home drifting over the sea and that always gave me a lot to think about. They say it eats coals and is made of iron." He looked at Pelle uncertainly. The great empty harbor basin, in which some hundreds of men were at work, interested him greatly.
They now resigned themselves to another night in the drift. But at half after three occurred an incident that restored hope of a more speedy deliverance to a few of the captives. Through the low pine-lands to the right ran a road which was very thoroughly protected from drifting snow by the overhanging trees, and along this road there now appeared two pair of oxen.
There was a moon which now and again showed between the drifting clouds, and by the light of it I saw that the Blanche lay safe at her anchors not a bowshot away.
One of their ships, the `Danbrog, after she had struck and was in flames, fired on our boats. Notwithstanding this, when she was seen drifting away before the wind, the fire gaining on her, Captain Bertie, of the `Ardent, sent his boats to the assistance of the poor fellows as they leaped out of the ports to escape the flames.
A third, in great anxiety, stated to me that such continuous mists were unknown upon the ocean; that they were peculiar to rivers, and that, beyond question, we were drifting along some stream, probably the Nile, and immediate measures ought to be taken that we did riot go ashore at the foot of the mountains of the moon.
The protection that would thus be afforded, both by the trees and by the drifting snow which they would gather, would probably keep the ground free throughout the winter. Incidentally to the chief advantage of this system, there will be, so long as the land is in grass, quite an addition to its product.
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