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Colonel Clavering landed with about eighty men; but found himself so entangled with mangrove trees, and the mud so impassably deep, that he was obliged to re-embark, though not before the enemy had discovered his design.

Some of those men's ears are impassably stopped up by self-love, self-interest, party-spirit, anger, envy, and ill-will, impenetrably stopped up against all the men and all the truths of earth and of heaven that would instruct, enlighten, convict or correct them. Some men's minds, again, are not so much shut up as they are crooked, and warped, and narrow, and full of obstruction and opposition.

Happily the spot was just at the bottom of the impassably steep fall of ground next the edge of the lawn and was almost in the centre of those four acres one of sward, three of woods which I proposed to hold under more or less discipline, leaving the rest a wooded strip running up the river shore wholly wild, as college girls, for example, would count wildness.

In another instant the road is impassably blocked. Up rushes a gendarme and worms his way through the press to the center. He has a notebook in his hand.

What rubbish most girls will take for poetry, and with it heap up impassably their door to the garden of delights! what French polish they will take for refinement! what merest French gallantry for love! what French sentiment for passion! what commonest passion they will take for devotion! passion that has little to do with their beauty even, still less with the individuality of it, and nothing at all with their loveliness!

In the High Street seemed to be everything that the town could show the ancient parish church, the town hall, the market cross, the principal houses and shops, the bridge, beneath which ran the river whereon ships had once come up to the town before its mouth, four miles away, became impassably silted up.

But what avails it? It may not be amiss to quote here the words of one of the greatest of the ancients whose works fragmentary, alas have come down to us. "Wealth has accumulated itself into masses; and poverty, also in accumulation enough, lies impassably separated from it; opposed, uncommunicating, like forces in positive and negative poles.

Joy tried to get to her feet, but fell heavily, with a cry of pain. Gypsy looked around her with dismay. Above, the ten feet of rock shot steeply; across the gully towered a high, dark wall; at each end, shelving stones were piled upon each other. They had fallen into a sort of unroofed cave,—a hollow, shut in completely and impassably. Impassably to Joy; there could be no doubt about that.

Peaks stood naked save for their evergreens, alternately wrapped in snow and viscid with mud. Morning disclosed the highways "all spewed up with frost" and noon found them impassably mired.

Would it some day swing forward, like the dark, remorseless finger of an hour-dial, and lie once more impassably between them? The days which followed were very wonderful ones to Ann.