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Updated: May 10, 2025
"Lester Armstrong," put in the other, laconically. The coach was instantly stopped, and both men made a flying leap into the huge snowdrift that banked both sides of the country road, calling back to the driver to light a lantern, if he had been careful enough to bring one with him, and hand it to them in double-quick order. The search lasted for fully half an hour.
Prince took up his shivering night-watch on the steps. Douglas and Mr. Fowler looked at each other soberly and went to bed. "A wise dog won't tackle a trapped wolverine." Old Prince. The next morning Johnny Brown trotted up on his old cow-pony. The preacher and Douglas were at breakfast. All the world was bristling with frost and a million opalescent lights danced on every snowdrift.
The snow came faster and faster until the dim, wintry pane was a blur. Millions of atoms crossed the watcher's weary vision, whirling, wavering, driven with an aimless persistence, unable to pause or to stop. And the blind white snowdrift climbed, fed, like human circumstance, from disconnected atoms impelled by a common law.
Bradford started to make an abject apology, but the sight of Aunt Phoebe sitting in the snowdrift with her lorgnette was too much for her and she went off into a peal of laughter, in which Hinpoha joined gleefully. It was weeks before Aunt Phoebe could be coaxed to make another visit. And this was the woman who was coming to take the place of Hinpoha's beloved mother!
Maitland pressed me to stay in his hotel. 'It is sheer folly, he said, 'for you to attempt to get home in weather like this. It is pitch dark, you are not familiar with the route, and if you don't wander off the track and tumble over a precipice, you will walk into a snowdrift. Be sensible sleep here!
Harold came to the brow of the cutting, and there beheld the funnel of a locomotive engine, locomotive no more, but firmly embedded in the snowdrift into which it had run, with a poor little train of three or four carriages behind it, already half buried.
"I see only a heap of white clothes, like a snowdrift," said Foster. "O God, she moves her arm!" "Hurl something down on her thy gold chest, Tony it is an heavy one." "Varney, thou art an incarnate fiend!" replied Foster. "There needs nothing more she is gone!" "So pass our troubles," said Varney, entering the room; "I dreamed not I could have mimicked the Earl's call so well."
Suddenly dense clouds of snow were seen rushing down from the neighbouring peaks before a hurricane of wind, compared with which previous gusts were trifles. "Come on fast fast!" shouted the guide, looking back and waving his hand. The first deafening roar of the blast drowned the shout; but before the snowdrift blinded him, Lawrence had observed the wave of the hand and the anxious look.
No wonder then that the negro made frantic efforts to regain his property all the more frantic that he was well aware if it should pass over one of the neighbouring precipices it would be lost to him for ever. At last a friendly gust sent it into a snowdrift, through which Quashy plunged and captured it.
The gale continued for three days, the wind attaining a velocity of seventy miles an hour. The snowdrift was very thick and the temperature fell to -20° Fahr. The shore party took a gloomy view of the ship's chances of safety among the ice-floes of the Ross Sea under such conditions.
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