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The men saw no enemy as they stood in the ranks to load and shoot; in a moment, without warning, dark faces frowned through the haze, the war-axes gleamed, and on the frozen ground the weapons clattered as the soldiers fell.
Colonel D'Hubert, his long moustaches pendent in icicles on each side of his cracked blue lips, his eyelids inflamed with the glare of snows, the principal part of his costume consisting of a sheepskin coat looted with difficulty from the frozen corpse of a camp follower found in an abandoned cart, took a more thoughtful view of events.
The flush and sparkle of an hour ago had vanished so utterly, that it appeared incredible that colour, light, and dimples could ever wake again in that frozen face, over whose rigid features brooded the calm of stone. "A woman fair and stately, But pale as are the dead,"
We still slept in the open air, and our blankets were often frozen to the ground in the morning.
That the height to which the land of this globe shall be raised, is a thing limited in the system of this earth, in having a certain bounds which it shall not exceed, cannot be disputed, while wisdom in that system is acknowledged; but it is equally evident, that we cannot set any other bounds to the operation of this cause, than those which nature appears actually to have observed in elevating a continent of land above the level of the sea for the necessary purpose of this world, in which there is to be produced a variety of climates, as there is of plants, from the burning coast under the equator to the frozen mountains of the Andes.
Snow covered every housetop, and hung in ponderous masses from their edges, as if it were about to fall; but it never fell it hung there in the same position day after day, unmelted, unchanged. Snow covered the whole land, and the frozen river, the swamps, the sea-beach, and the sea itself, as far as the eye could reach, seemed like a pure white carpet.
Just as the bear was rising to the attack, I sat down on the slope, and flew rather than slid to the bottom. It was an awful plunge! I almost shut my eyes in horror but but kept them open. At the bottom there was a curve like a frozen wave. I left the top of this curve and finished the descent in the air. The crash at the end was awful, but I survived it. There was no time for thought.
"You are mine by every law of God and man, and I will not let you go." Then suddenly changing into a tone of excited entreaty, he said, "Come, darling, trust me once more, and I will bring back the light of love into those frozen eyes, and I will kiss back warmth into those haughty lips." "Away!" said Gwladys. "Do you wish, then, never to see me again?" "Never!" she said.
I was especially pleased to show Hero Siegfried that I could amuse myself very well without him, for he had frozen on to the aspiring actress, or she had frozen on to him I don't know which, or at least I did not know then!
Astrakan was formerly a place of consequence and trade, but had been laid waste by Tamerlane. Russia is a fertile country, but extremely cold. Oxen and other beasts are carried to market in the winter, slaughtered, with their entrails taken out, and frozen so hard, that it is impossible to cut them up: they are very numerous and cheap. The only fruits are apples, nuts, and walnuts.
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