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"Monsieur," said the Colonel, "see the irony, the implacable irony of fate we had only blank cartridge! But see you, here was this one despised man with an eye-glass, a tailor takes nine tailors to make a man! between the ravine and the galloping tragedy.
By a circuitous path through the ravine they reached the foot of the mount, where lay a birch canoe, rocking gently on the waters, in which a middle-aged female and a young girl were seated.
For, like the sin, the punishment is awful: he shall carry about for ages the phantom-body of the girl, knowing that her soul is away, sitting with the soul of his brother, down in the deep ravine, or scaling with him the topmost crags of the towering mountain-peaks.
Here they began to fortify themselves; the women digging a trench, and throwing up a breastwork of logs and branches, deep hid in the bosom of the wood, while the warriors skirmished at the edge to keep the trappers at bay. The latter took their station in a ravine in front, whence they kept up a scattering fire.
We didn't kill him out of season; he killed himself falling into the ravine, so we haven't broken any law. He just sort of dropped into our laps, and 'finders is keepers, you know." "Well, your Calydonian Hunt was more successful than you expected," said Uncle Teddy, "for now you will really have the antlers as a trophy instead of just seeing the moose. If only all big game hunting were so easy!"
But I could not remain there, waiting. It was absolutely necessary that I should watch at the entrance for the moment of their departure. The morning was serenely cool and, in its stillness, their talk filled with clear-cut words the calm air of the ravine. A party I could not tell how many had already come up from the schooner in a great state of excitement.
Some time before he said, and Barber, too, that he could not live many hours. I felt he was dying before we came to the ravine. He told me his wishes about his children and myself, and took leave. My brain seemed burnt up. No tears came. As soon as we fell, the sergeant let go the horse, and it went off; so that escape was cut off. We sat down on the ground waiting for death.
These positions are near together: one is south of the road, half a mile east of the meeting-house, on a hill-slope descending toward the west; and the other is north of the road, at a ravine now known as Sandy Hollow. It is said that Greene opened his lines, received the fugitives from the front, and re-formed. Possibly this took place at this second position.
Jumping from the saddle and hobbling the animal, he very carefully crawled over the apparently safe surface between himself and the ravine. "Now I'm sure that's what happened, Nolla, or Jeb wouldn't try to get over there. He's going to see just how bad things are." "Poll, we'd better run as fast as we can, and get things ready at the ranch.
The inhabitants were obliged to retreat to the top of the cliff, where they built a wall of defence on the only accessible side. In the narrow ravine I discovered huge blocks which had rolled down from above. People have hollowed them and are using them as dwelling places. These "huts" today make up a small, very irregular town, which, however, possesses even a bazaar.
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