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Updated: June 3, 2025
"You don't want others to pay! As if you could do anything that doesn't affect others. Did you learn that selfishness at Skaw Fell, or was it born with you? You are of those who think they earn all their own success and happiness, and then, when they earn defeat and despair, are surprised that others suffer. As if our penalties were only paid by ourselves! Egotism, vanity!
Now it is won, I would give it up and a hundred times as much to hear you say, 'Come to Skaw Fell again." Did he really mean it? She thought he did. And it seemed the only way out of the difficulty. It broke the impasse. It was not necessary, however, to spend the future in the way first suggested to her mind. They discussed all that at Skaw Fell months later.
Most of us were now resigned to our fate and saw no hope in fact, I had written in my diary the day before, "There is no hope left, no boat of ours to save us" but some said we still might see a British war vessel when we rounded the Skaw. At mid-day the sailor on the look-out came into the saloon and reported to the Captain that a fog was coming on.
Her mind flashed back through the years to the time when she was a girl, and visited old friends of her father in a castle looking towards Skaw Fell, above the long valley of the Nidd. A kind of mist came before her eyes now. When she really saw again, they were at the steps of the veranda, and Donovan Pasha's voice was greeting her.
On the 19th of March the fleet was collected off the northern point of Denmark, known as the Skaw. From there the broad channel, called the Kattegat, extends southward, between Sweden and the northern part of the Danish peninsula, until it reaches the large Island of Zealand, upon the eastern shore of which Copenhagen lies. The two principal entrances into the Baltic are on either side of Zealand.
Nothing matters so that the dream was a good one and the heart approves and the eyes see far." She spoke as though herself in a dream, her look intent on the glowing distance, as though unconscious of his presence. "It's good to have lived among mountains and climbed them when you were young. It gives you bigger ideas of things. You could see a long way with the sun behind you, from Skaw Fell."
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