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The driver, an Irish trooper, crossed himself, for, on the hush of the breathless winter night, there rose and fell shrill, quavering, now high, now low, in mournful minor, a weird, desolate, despairing chant, the voice of a heart-broken woman, and one and all they knew at once it was Nanette, after the manner of her mother's people, alone on the lofty height, alone in the wintry wilderness, sobbing out her grief song to the sleeping winds, mourning to the last her lost, her passionately loved brave.
The window shutters were left unfastened, that the bright lamplight and ruddy firelight might stream afar upon the wintry waste, and perhaps guide some benighted wayfarer to a hospitable shelter. We shall not attempt to describe the group, as any such portrait painting would not be germane to the matter more immediately in hand.
Six months passed by months of grief and pain, and bitter, unavailing regret; of work and play, of long summer days, and wintry fog and cold; of reviving happiness also, since, thank God! joy returns like the spring, bringing back hope and joy to a darkened world.
As the moon rose, sending a wintry light over the great slope, three gigantic columns of smoke stood where the flames had shown a minute before. "What do you make of it?" asked Thede. "Can you read the signal?" asked Sandy. "Do you really think it is a signal?" "Of course it's a signal!" cried Sandy. "That's the Boy Scout signal. Do you know what it says?"
Every thicket along its banks and every curve in its course was likely to be an ambush; but the fearless Piskaret party ascended clear to Lake Champlain itself. Here they landed upon an island, concealed themselves and their canoes in the wintry forest, and waited. One day they heard a gun-shot. Some Iroquois were about, upon the lake or upon the mainland. "Come," spoke Piskaret, to his party.
At the same time, good and necessary as all such wintry experiences are, their good results on us do not last for ever. In too many cases they do not last long. It is rather a start in grace we take at such seasons than a steady and deep growth in it.
At the foot of the cliff a wonderful silvery light was shining on the sea, which already, before the beginning of autumn, was eager and wintry and cold.
Captain Rose, though a brave man, loved his ease and comfort, so the most irksome duty fell upon the orderly. He saw that quarters as comfortable as were possible were made for the men. Boards, canvas, brush and everything possible to make a shelter were provided. The wintry sky was clear, and when night came on the stars came out one by one.
In vagabond pursuit of dreadful safety. Yet let us go! England is in her shroud, we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse. Let us go the world is our country now, and we will choose for our residence its most fertile spot. Shall we, in these desart halls, under this wintry sky, sit with closed eyes and folded hands, expecting death?
But westward it opens, upon the broad plain of the Rhine, like the mouth of a trumpet; and like the blast of a trumpet is at times the wintry wind through this narrow mountain pass.
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