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He had advanced his argument as though life had been a network of paths separated by chasms. His voice sounded reasonable. "Suppose I had not I mean to say, suppose I had stuck to the ship? Well. How much longer? Say a minute half a minute. Come.
He probably would have been frankly content with the sight of an occasional ball-game out at the Polo Grounds, and the newspaper bulletins of a prizefight by rounds. But here he was at the base that supplied America's outdoor equipment. He who outfitted mountaineers must speak knowingly of glaciers, chasms, crevices, and peaks.
No man has any business to go on such a trip as ours unless he will refuse to jeopardize the welfare of his associates by any delay caused by a weakness or ailment of his. It is his duty to go forward, if necessary on all fours, until he drops. Fortunately, I was put to no such test. I remained in good shape until we had passed the last of the rapids of the chasms.
General Dodge had the work assigned him finished within forty days after receiving his orders. The number of bridges to rebuild was one hundred and eighty-two, many of them over deep and wide chasms; the length of road repaired was one hundred and two miles. The enemy's troops, which it was thought were either moving against Burnside or were going to Nashville, went no farther than Cleveland.
The shock was tremendous, but Gaston bore it with only a tightening of the lips to show the agony he was enduring. Presently an aimless question broke the unendurable stillness of the room. "Who is that, Drew?" "Ruth Dale your brother's widow." "So he is dead?" At such vital times in life, the mind leaps over chasms of events, and takes much for granted. "Yes; he died a year ago."
Deep black chasms seemed to yawn below, and cliffs rose on all sides, except down the valley, where looking across the Yalloong river, a steep range of mountains rose, seamed with torrents that were just visible like threads of silver coursing down broad landslips.
We walked for some distance up the Goat Ridge, crossed a ravine to our left, and then got on to what is called the Pinnacle, where we had a view which was awe-inspiring. There lay before us two or three yawning chasms stretching away down the mountain side. I hardly liked to look at them.
Shefford thought he heard a yell in the rear, but he could not see anything of the gang. They rounded this precipice only to face a worse one. Shefford's nerve was sorely tried when he saw steep slants everywhere, all apparently leading down into chasms, and no place a man, let alone a horse, could put a foot with safety. Nevertheless the imperturbable Indian never slacked his pace.
Then hear me! "There live under the sun a nation of Reds-kins, whose men are cowards, never striking an enemy but when his back is turned, or when they number a hundred to one. This nation crawls in the prairies about the great chasms; they live upon carrion, and have no other horses but those they can steal from the deer-hearted Watchinangoes. Do my warrior? know such a people? Let them speak!
Grotesque the shapes of some of them, comical others; but wrecks and dead things come to light at low water spectral matter, squalid, rueful matter. And there are chasms set yawning, too, which you cannot bridge. Sanchia was to be lacerated. No doubt it was laughable at first, as naivete is. "Cuthbert was very funny about it" for instance.
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