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Updated: May 23, 2025
Surely you are an angel whom God hath sent me in these hours of loneliness." His natural impulse was to embrace the heroic woman; but he restrained such unholy emotions, and she, with her heart overflowing, sat weeping for joy. In order to change the subject, he said: "Blanche; I have thought that the time has come to explore the peak of Snow-Top."
Further on the nut-bearing trees gave place to grass, and they found themselves on a sloping plain. Every hour seemed bringing them to new and unexplored regions. Old Snow-Top, as they called the mountain, contained wonders. The trees had dwindled to dwarfs, and the animals degenerated in proportion.
"Blanche, Blanche, your cheeks are flushed, your eyes are unnaturally bright; you have a fever." She laughingly answered: "It is only a slight cold, the result of our visit to the peak of old Snow-Top." He administered such simple remedies as they had at hand, tucked her up warmly in bed and sat by her side until she was asleep.
Morning came and went, came and went again, and she grew worse. John never left her save to bring cold water to slake her burning thirst, or prepare some remedy to check the ravages of the fever. "Oh, God! to be left alone to be left all alone! Can I endure it?" he sighed. When he was at her side, he said: "It was the journey to Snow-Top. It was too much for you, Blanche, I am to blame for this."
"Exercise will warm me and give me strength," she answered. It did, and when they reached the valley she was quite herself again. It was the middle of the afternoon when they entered the valley, and gazing back at old Snow-Top, with his towering summit piercing the skies, they thanked God for their deliverance.
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