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Robin Hood's band sought safety in the solitudes of Sherwood Forest, Marion's men secreted themselves "in the pleasant wilds of Snow's Island" and other South Carolina swamps, but the Partizan Rangers of Virginia protected themselves by dispersing in an open country among a sympathizing people. They never established a camp; to have done so would have invited capture.
"Never ride a free horse to death," he used to say to his officers; "push, while he is fresh, but soon as he begins to lag, then lie by and feed high is your play." For this purpose he always kept a snug hiding-place in reserve for us; which was Snow's Island, a most romantic spot, and admirably fitted to our use.
I wouldna go back, and I wouldna change my lot if I might. I am quite content." Mr Snow smiled and nodded in his own peculiar fashion for reply. There could be no doubt of his content, or Mrs Snow's either, Graeme acknowledged, and then her thoughts went back to the time when Janet's lot had been so different.
Well, Mis' Snow's 'different, all right I hope, for the sake of the rest of us!" Nancy had finished grimly. Pollyanna was thinking of these remarks to-day as she turned in at the gate of the shabby little cottage. Her eyes were quite sparkling, indeed, at the prospect of meeting this "different" Mrs. Snow. A pale-faced, tired-looking young girl answered her knock at the door.
Mr Snow's kind heart was much shocked at the thought of Marian's danger. She had been his favourite among the bairns, and Emily's chief friend from the very first, and he could not urge her going away, now that there was so sorrowful a reason for her stay. "So you'll just tell the minister there is to be no more said about it. He winna ask any questions, I dare say."
Graeme is too well accustomed by this time, to Mrs Grove's impertinences, to allow anything she says to trouble her," said Rose, with flashing eyes. Mrs Snow's hand was laid softly on that of the young girl, who had risen in her indignation. "Sit down, my dear," she whispered. "Nonsense, Rosie," said her brother; "there is nothing to be vexed about. How can you be so foolish?"
"What's the matter, Marty?" she asked, lightly. "Matter? Ain't nothin' the matter," grunted the boy. "Why, Marty! you're crying!" gasped Janice, suddenly. "Ain't neither!" growled the boy, wiping his rough coat sleeve across his eyes. "Snow's blowed in 'em." "That's more than snow, Marty," was Janice's confident remark. "Huh!" snorted Marty. "Girls allus know so much!"
"Oh, yes, I was," nodded Pollyanna, triumphantly; "and I found it, too. But 'TWAS hard. It's all the more fun, though, always, when 'tis hard. And I will own up, honest to true, that I couldn't think of anything for a while. Then I got it." "Did you, really? Well, what is it?" Mrs. Snow's voice was sarcastically polite. Pollyanna drew a long breath.
The snow's tried hard to make the ugliness bearable, but the ugliness is winning; it's making the snow hideous; the snow's getting dirty on top, and it's foul underneath with the dirt and disease of the unclean street. And the dirt and the ugliness and the rush and the noise aren't the worst of it; it's what the dirt and ugliness and rush and noise MEAN that's the worst!
The snow fell three days and nights without ceasing, and they rejoiced greatly over their foresight in preparing so well for it, because it was a big snow, a very big snow. "It ain't jest snowin'," said Shif'less Sol; "the bottom o' the sky hez dropped out, an' all the snow's tumblin' down." The great flakes never ceased for a moment to fall.
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