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Updated: June 18, 2025
She lost sight of him in the dust, again she thought she saw the black, riderless now, rear and drag himself and fall. Lassiter had been thrown lost! Then he reappeared running out of the dust into the sage. He had escaped, and she breathed again. Spellbound, Jane Withersteen watched this stupendous millwheel of steers. Here was the milling of the herd.
Everything is going round and round in my head like a millwheel. The first thing to do is to see about my mother, who is lamenting down there at the house I must find her a comfortable place to live." The young girl had become very thoughtful. "Claudet," replied she, "I know you are very proud, very sensitive, and could not wish to hurt your feelings.
And had I known of the damage done, I should have allowed him no sugar in his tea. But it may have been Toft, when he repaired the glass, for indeed he is little better than a heathen." She examined it and tried the key again. It was hopeless. "Never mind, Phoebe dearest! I would have loved to see the millwheel turn again, as it did in the old days. Now we must wait for it to be put to rights.
"I remember seeing this valley covered with water once during the Spring. But we live on the shoulder of Mount Burgoyne, and you see, even the mill sets on quite high ground." Ruth's eyes had already seen and lingered upon the mill. It was a rambling structure, the great, splashing millwheel at the far end, the long warehouse in the middle, and the dwelling attached to the other end.
The great rock was turning. Slowly, yet with the flawless regularity of a millwheel, the mass of stone was rolled upward and to one side; it rested at last on a ledge, balanced perfectly, ready to fall again at the touch of a finger; and in the aperture appeared the human agent of its opening.
Everything is going round and round in my head like a millwheel. The first thing to do is to see about my mother, who is lamenting down there at the house I must find her a comfortable place to live." The young girl had become very thoughtful. "Claudet," replied she, "I know you are very proud, very sensitive, and could not wish to hurt your feelings.
Below him in the empty flume was the master-carpenter giving a last inspection to the repairs. Beyond the master-carpenter far beyond was the great mill-wheel! Behind himself, Jean Jacques, was the river held back by the dam; and if the lever was opened, the river would sweep through the raised gates down the flume to the millwheel with the man.
"Ho, west wind off the prairie; Ho, north wind off the pine; Ho, myriad azure lakes, hill-clasped, Like cups of living wine; Ho, mighty river rolling; Ho, fallow, field and fen; By a thousand voices nature calls, To fire the hearts of men. "Ho, fragrance of the wheat-fields; Ho, garnered hoards of flax; Ho, whirling millwheel, 'neath the falls; Ho, woodman's ringing ax.
His forehead was wrinkled as with a great effort to remember something, but he could think of nothing but a huge millwheel turning under red, smooth waves. Suddenly he remembered: it was the young Cossack who had given him his brother's clothes. 'The other one, he shouted, pointing to his muffler, 'where did you leave him? Soldiers came between them and pushed the crowd away.
Concrete abutments secured these timbers and linked the walls of stone with the huge gates opening into the millrace that fed the water to the ponderous undershot millwheel. Just now the gates were open and the water rushed through with deafening force.
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