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Then, closing and bolting the door, he took the lamp from Carraway and motioned him up the dusky staircase to the spare chamber at the top. When Christopher left Blake Hall, he swung vigorously in the twilight across the newly ploughed fields, until, at the end of a few minutes' walk, he reached the sunken road that branched off by the abandoned ice-pond.
You are like an ice-pond that is just beginning to freeze over. A very light weight will break it through at that stage, but if there is no strain until it has frozen properly, it can bear the weight of the most heavily loaded wagons." Lloyd slipped into a chair and stared dismally at the fire. "But I am strongah than you think, Miss Gilmer.
Then with a word or two of thanks, she smiled brightly, and, calling the dog, passed rapidly into the twilight which stretched between him and a single shining window that was visible in the Hall. After she had quite disappeared he still stood motionless by the ice-pond, staring into the dusk that had swallowed her up from his gaze.
Now I'll lead him, and you tell me in which direction to go." "Down the road there, just on the other side of the ice-pond," said Jimmy, pointing in that direction as they moved off. The boy was happy as he cupped his bare legs close around the body of the horse, and watched the square shoulders of the man who walked slowly ahead.
"If you think," he said, as sharply as she had spoken, "that I just jumped into that infernal ice-pond, clothes and all, for the pure joy of making your charming acquaintance in some ten feet of water, all I can say is that you are by no means lacking a full appreciation of your own attractiveness." She opened her eyes widely at him, lying at his feet where he had deposited her.
"Get out some dry clothes and see what's the matter with the heat. A blind man coming in here would think he'd struck an ice-pond." He looked around and then at the darkey in front of him. "The Lord gave you a head for the purpose of using it, Moses, but you mistake it at times for an ornament. Zero weather and windows down from the top twelve inches! Has General been in here to-day?" "No, sir.
"At first I started there, but that must have been hours ago, and it was so dark I got lost by the ice-pond. After all, it would only make matters worse if I saw Will again; so the question is, Where am I to sleep?" "At Tom Spade's, then or " he hesitated an instant, "if you care to come to us, my sister will gladly find room for you." She shook her head.
The clerk put them in a box and told Sunny Boy he was carrying home the best skates in the store. "I hope Bob will like them," said Sunny Boy, skipping along beside Grandpa Horton. "Oh, look, here comes the other grandpa!" The tall old gentleman coming toward them saw Sunny Boy, and smiled. He stopped and held out his hand. "Well, if it isn't my little ice-pond friend!" he said cordially.
She had reached the abandoned ice-pond, and was picking her way carefully in the shadow of the trees, when the baying of a pack of hounds in full cry broke on her ears, and with the nervous tremor she had associated from childhood with the sound, she stopped short in the road and waited anxiously for the hunt to pass.
It was absolutely out of business. There was not a mill, nor a reservoir, nor a cranberry-bog, on all its course of a short mile. The only profitable affair it ever undertook was to fill a small ice-pond near its entrance into the Great South Bay. You could hardly call this a very energetic enterprise.
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