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Herr Forström prepared us for the journey by a good breakfast of reindeer's marrow, a justly celebrated Lapland delicacy, and we set out with a splendidly clear sky and a cold of 12° below zero.
Stafford King went to the Cunard office in Cockspur Street and booked cabin seventeen on the shelter deck of the Lapland for New York." "In what name?" "In the name of Miss Isabel Trenton." The colonel nodded. It was a name that Lollie had used before, and the story rang true. "When does the Lapland sail?" he asked, and again the detective consulted his book.
While I was viewing this performance, I remarked a smell like that of singed horn or leather, though his hand was not burnt. The workmen at the Swedish melting-house showed the same thing to some travellers in the seventeenth century; for Regnard saw it in 1681, at the copper-works in Lapland.
No she-bear of Lapland ever looked more fierce and hairy than did that woman, as, standing in the open part of the tent, with her head bent down, and her shoulders drawn up, seemingly about to precipitate herself upon me, she repeated, again and again, "My name is Herne, and I comes of the hairy ones! "I call God Duvel, brother." "It sounds very like Devil." "It doth, brother, it doth."
"What sort of a place is Finland?" asked a friend whom I met, on my return from that country, in London. "Very much the same as Lapland, I suppose? Snow, sleighs, and bears, and all that kind of thing?" My friend was not singular in his idea, for they are probably those of most people in England. At present Finland is a terra incognita, though fortunately not likely to remain one.
Congress of Cambrai, and other high Gatherings and convulsive Doings, which all proved futile, and look almost like Lapland witchcraft now to us, will have to follow this futility of a War.
Norway, too, has noble wild prospects; and Lapland is remarkable for prodigious noble wild prospects. But, sir, let me tell you, the noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London!" So dangerous it always was to put a phrase into Johnson's mouth! So dangerous above all to try to make him prefer anything to his beloved London.
And he is careful, none carefuler, not to neglect his Diplomacies at any time; though he knows, better than most, that good fighting of his own is what alone can determine the value of these contingent and aerial quantities, mere Lapland witchcraft the greater part of them.
Italy sent to the parties at Potsdam the ingenious and amiable Algarotti, and Bastiani, the most crafty, cautious, and servile of Abbés. But the greater part of the society which Frederic had assembled round him was drawn from France. Maupertuis had acquired some celebrity by the journey which he had made to Lapland, for the purpose of ascertaining, by actual measurement, the shape of our planet.
In the morning Gerda told her all that the wood pigeons had said, and the little robber girl looked quite solemn, but she nodded her head and said, 'No matter, no matter! Do you know where Lapland is? she asked the reindeer. 'Who should know better than I, said the animal, its eyes dancing. 'I was born and brought up there, and I used to leap about on the snowfields.
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