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But although she stood on a stool and thrust her arm out to her shoulder, her hand did not reach the open air! "My goodness me!" gasped Betty Gordon. "We're stalled! We're snowbound! What shall we ever do if the snow doesn't melt pretty soon, or they don't come and dig us out?" She washed in haste, and having brought her clothes with her, she dressed promptly.

When he went to sleep it was with the lights turned on in his bedroom; partly because of his old timidity, and partly so that, if he should wake in the night, there would be no wretched moment of doubt, no horrible suspicion of yellow wallpaper, or of Washington and Calvin above his bed. Sunday morning the city was practically snowbound.

It meant traveling upward in the great snowbound reaches of Vermont mountain-country and tracking down a murderer who had killed a second time to gain his freedom and would stop at nothing again. And yet five thousand dollars! How much will a person do, how far will a normal human being travel, to earn five thousand dollars if the need is sufficiently provocative?

They made him a drawing showing that if he crossed another watershed he would come on a white man's wide pack-road. That must lead to Cariboo; but the snow lay already a foot deep on this road; and unless the Overlanders hastened they would be snowbound for the winter.

Broussard's hands after the music ride." Colonel and Mrs. Fortescue, sitting in the cool, dim drawing-room, heard Beverley's laughter floating in from the garden. Beverley saw the case at a glance. The torrid summer slipped by, and in November it was winter again, and the earth was snowbound once more. In all those months Mrs.

So the snow fell, the world froze, and the spelling-books and exercises went on. But this was not the only case of education which was progressing at the Sunk Creek Ranch while love was snowbound. One morning Scipio le Moyne entered the Virginian's sitting room that apartment where Dr. MacBride had wrestled with sin so courageously all night. The Virginian sat at his desk.

"I am not losing chances any more," he continued. "And you are the best I've got." She was not sorry to have Georgie Taylor come galloping along at this moment and join them. But the Virginian swore profanely under his breath. And on this ride nothing more happened. Love had been snowbound for many weeks.

One thinks a sunset beautiful and impressive, but one doesn't look at it long." Then they separated, and he took the road to the north, which was still snowbound, while she went on into the chilly yellow west, with the odd sweet illusion that a summer day was dawning. The office of Messrs Fulke, Warner, & Murchison was in Market Street, exactly over Scott's drug store.

Two or three times during the night Alice awakened and, going to the window, looked out. She could make out a dim whiteness, but that was all. Around the window there was a little drift of snow on the sill, where it had been blown through a crack. And in the morning they were snowbound.

"Baby's better. She wasn't poisoned at all," Betty told them. "But those children are going to be awfully hungry before long if we have to stay here. Do you know we're snowbound, girls?" This last she confided to the three Littell girls. "Won't they dig us out?" asked the practical Louise. "What a lark!" exclaimed Bobby, clapping her hands. "Just think! Buried in the snow!

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