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Min lost her foothold and fell directly under the horse's hoofs as they came heavily down. The animal, freed from her detaining hand, sprang forward, dragging the laden sleigh over the prostrate woman. It had all passed in a moment. The moveless figure lay where it had fallen, one outstretched hand still grasping the whip. Telford sprang over the gate and rushed up the slope like a madman.
But I had seen the valley between those mountains, the only possible entrance to that mysterious land. Nothing could fail us now. I cast my eyes beyond her toward the mist-wrapped tops of the far Laurentians and the plains. And a sense of an inevitable fate came over me as I perceived far away a tiny, crawling ant upon the snows Simon Leroux's dog sleigh.
Maria Antoinette, reminded of the merry sleigh rides she had enjoyed in the more northern home of her childhood, was eager to renew the pleasure. Some antiquated sledges were found in the stables. New ones, gay and graceful, were constructed.
"Oh, Jasper, I will," promised Polly, clinging to his hand. "Don't be afraid to tell me, Jasper." "Listen; Marian has been thrown from her sleigh this morning; the horses ran," said Jasper hurriedly. "The telegram says 'Come. She may be living, Polly; don't look so." For the room grew suddenly so dark to her that she wavered and would have fallen had he not caught her.
A sleigh much like this but less comfortable is called a povoska. In either of them, the driver sits on the forward part with his feet hanging over the side. His perch is not very secure, and on a rough road he must exercise care to prevent falling off. "Why don't you have a better seat for your driver?" I asked of my friend, when negotiating for a sleigh.
There are many beggars in the towns and villages of the Urals, and in summer there is a fair supply of highwaymen. Several beggars surrounded our sleigh as we prepared to depart and seemed determined to make the most of the occasion. The undulations of the road increased, and the fir woods became thicker as we approached Ekaterineburg, nestled on the bank of the Isset.
Ney looked up, and, in a moment afterwards, jumped out of the sleigh, and came running up to the door. "Now," continued Mr. Edwards, "if you can call him back, while I am standing here, it is pretty good proof that you have been kind to him, and that he would like to go with you." So Jonas walked down towards the gate, looking back, and calling, "Franco, Franco, Franco!"
I don't know what father will say, but if she was as used up as you tell for, I don't know as 'tis safe. It is an awful night." "I guess it ain't safe, and she ain't going," maintained Mrs. Otis from the door-step. Then Eugene Hautville bent well out of his sleigh and asked a question in the other man's ear. "Yes, she did," replied Jim Otis. "The poor girl is crazy over it," said Eugene.
This time she persuaded Frances D. Gage of Ohio, a temperance worker and popular author of children's stories, to join her. An easy extemporaneous speaker, Mrs. Gage was an attraction to offer audiences, who drove eight or more miles to hear her; and in the cheerless hotels at night and on the long cold sleigh rides from town to town, she was a congenial companion.
"Father has letters too," she said to Hollis; "he will give you his news." As the sleigh containing Linnet, her father, and Marjorie sped away before them, Captain Rheid said to Hollis: "How shall I ever break it to them? Morris is dead." "Dead!" repeated Hollis. "He died on the voyage out. Will gives a long account of it for his mother and Marjorie.
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