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When the tidings reached his far-inward ear that she was to marry Joseph instead of his friend, a general thaw set in over the entire landscape of his nature: it was like spring along the southern fringes of Greenland.
This is one of many front line versions of a patriotic drawing-room song. He sang me also another longer song, composed by a friend of his, which is not fit for reproduction. We experienced great variations of weather on the Plateau. When we first arrived in March the snow was in full thaw, and every road a sunlit, rushing torrent. We climbed about at that time in gum boots.
And this not because he is such a brute as to like people like White or Thaw any more than we do, but because he knows that his problem is the degeneration of the useful classes; because he knows that White would never have been a millionaire if all his workers had spent themselves on women as White did, that Thaw would never have been a millionaire if all his servants had been Thaws.
A warmth from the past from the ashes of bygone years and the raked-up embers of long ago will sometimes thaw the ice about our hearts; but it must be otherwise with our successors.
There was some bacon among the trappers' stores, as they had calculated that they would not be able to hunt until out of Big Wind Valley and far up among the forests beyond. The frying-pan was now utilized for its proper work, while the pail was placed close enough to the fire to thaw its contents, without risking injury to it.
After the first thaw, the chipmunks burrow a hole through the snow crust and make their first appearance for the season. Sometimes as many as fifty will come together and hold a social reunion. These gatherings occur early in the morning, from daybreak to about nine o'clock.
But the ice was broken, and the ensuing thaw led to a complete reconciliation. Sir James Thornhill treated his daughter and son-in-law more generously, and lived with them in future till his death in 1733. At the same time the Series which had brought about domestic reconciliation, had also brought fame and fortune to the artist.
"If Tayoga stayed in his canoe," said Wilton, "he's frozen solidly in the middle of the river, and he won't be able to move it until a thaw comes." Robert laughed with genuine amusement and also with a certain scorn. "I've told you many times, Will," he said, "that you didn't know all about Tayoga, but now it seems that you know nothing about him."
John's countenance showed a certain agitation. Valentine observing it, gave him a quiet, matter-of-fact greeting, and talked of the weather. A thaw had come on, and the snow was melting rapidly. For the moment John seemed unable to answer, but when they got into the dining-room, he said "I overtook St. George's groom. He had been to my house, he said, thinking you were there.
However unfilial you may have been, however stern or negligent they, if there is now the will to bless, and now the heart to love, all is well well at the last, well now for evermore thank Heaven for so glad a consummation. Oh, that my pen had power to make many fathers kind, many children trustful! Oh, that by some burning word I could thaw the cold, shame sarcasms, and arouse the apathetic!
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