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Updated: April 30, 2025
They soon thawed the Frenchman, fed him, and clothed him. The landowner conducted him to his daughters. 'Here, children! he said to them, 'a teacher is found for you.
You remember the old story of the tender-hearted man, who placed a frozen viper in his bosom, and was stung by it when it became thawed? If we take a cold-blooded creature into our bosom, better that it should sting us and we should die than that its chill should slowly steal into our hearts; warm it we never can!
Not the least ground for his happiness was the certainty that at last she did have some name by which he could address her and a permanent address, and he liked that name, Mary Allen! When he arrived at the hotel in Media City he discovered a strange air of depression in the demeanor of the porters, bellboys and clerks until he signed his name, when the ice thawed to a noticeable degree.
All food had to be thawed out before it could be eaten, and the thawing-out process sometimes presented great difficulties, a haunch of venison remaining full of ice after being in a hot oven for an hour. Sometimes a lump of ice was left unmelted in the centre of the soup-pot even when the water boiled all around it.
The temperature usually dropped below zero, but every opportunity was taken during these fine, sunny days to partially dry our sleeping-bags and other gear, which had become sodden through our body-heat having thawed the snow which had drifted in on to them during the blizzard. The bright sun seemed to put new heart into all.
The doctor loved his port wine, and thawed a little in his manner. He loved it not as a toper, but as a collector loves his pet pictures. He liked to talk about it, and think about it; to praise it, and hear it praised; to look at it turned towards the light, and to count over the years it had lain in his cellar. "Yes," said he, "it's pretty fair wine.
Apart from which cause, we see that the fine old Visigothic races in Spain found them full employment up to the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, which reign first created a kingdom of Spain; in that reign the whole fabric of their power thawed away, and was confounded with forgotten things.
Then, seeing that the farmer was suspicious and anxious for an explanation, he insisted on talking, and related the whole story in such a clear and concise manner that his hearers were thoroughly convinced. The farmer thawed out, and showed himself in his true colors a genial, kind-hearted old man.
How good they would feel after the grinding newness of his boots! And coffee he could see the row of tin pots hanging from their wires, and the long, flat slabs of bacon suspended from the roof-logs of the store. He found himself, for the first time in his life, absolutely dependent upon his own resources. He cut the top from a can of salmon and thawed out his bread on the top of the dirty stove.
We appointed a committee to find out how many were frozen up altogether entirely, and found that every single one of us were; so we're going in to the library fire to get thawed out by tea-time." "All right," said Ellis, shouldering his sled; "Howard, where's your skates?" "Oh, bother! they're at the top of that awful hill. Never mind; you walk on slowly, and I'll run back and get them."
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