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Updated: June 3, 2025
When Pemrose, a Camp Fire Girl of America, greater at that moment than when her hand should loose the Thunder Bird, because she was determined that whatever might be said of her father's invention, nobody should ever say that his daughter's courage was a Quaker gun, paddled through the window-gap of that swamped Pullman, towing Una, she found herself in such a vortex of zero water and shattered ice that all the strength behind her gasping breath turned suddenly dummy.
And now, fragments of ruinous enclosure, yawning window-gap and crazy wall, deserted houses, leaking wells, broken water-tanks, spectral cypress-trees, patches of tangled vine, and the changing of the track to a long, irregular, disordered lane where everything was crumbling away, from the unsightly buildings to the jolting road now, these objects showed that they were nearing Rome.
'Avice, my dear, she said, advancing to where the girl mused in the window-gap, 'what do you think of Mr. Pierston paying his addresses to you coming courting, as I call it in my old-fashioned way. Supposing he were to, would you encourage him? 'To ME, mother? said Avice, with an inquiring laugh. 'I thought he meant you! 'O no, he doesn't mean me, said her mother hastily.
Calling upon Una to follow, she headed for a dripping window-gap, to seize the moment when the flood, now lower upon that side, might give her a chance to paddle through scramble through escape on to the cracking ice, before the opening was again blotted out.
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