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On every side of them were scoriated hills, desolate, forbidding, sinister in the dying day, and all fatally similar in form. "We must try shooting. Perhaps they will hear us," suggested Peggy, a sickening sense of fear fear unlike any she had ever known clutching at her heart. Roy blazed away, but the feeble reports of the light weapons they had did not carry to any distance.
Not but what the Girl Aviators had had their meed of excitement there, too, as readers of the "Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship" well know. But in the scoriated hills with their scanty outcropping of pallid wild oats, the fire-seered acclivities and the burning blue of the desert heavens above all, she beheld a setting entirely foreign to anything in her experience.
And over your brilliant career as man of the world, however lit up by a morbid vanity, or galvanized by a lascivious passion, there will come at times the consciousness of a better heart, struggling beneath your cankered action, like the low Vesuvian fire, reeking vainly under rough beds of tufa and scoriated lava.
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