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26 - Murray's Adirondack Tales by William Henry Harrison Murray · Murrays Adirondack Tales

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  Speaker 1: Yes, a woman. There is no doubt of that. No
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  Speaker 1: spirit ever had such face and eyes and mortal form,
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  Speaker 1: a face of earthly beauty, and a form whose perfect
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  Speaker 1: poise and active, buoyant life spoke not of spiritual but
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  Speaker 1: of perfect mortal mold. A young woman from whose face
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  Speaker 1: looked forth profound astonishment at the spectacle. She beheld the
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  Speaker 1: man lying on the floor, the dog Lucky scratching at
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  Speaker 1: his breast, the trapper, with every feature of his face
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  Speaker 1: suggestive of surprise. What have I done? Said the girl?
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  Speaker 1: Is he dead? And she looked at the man lying
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  Speaker 1: on the floor where he had fallen, and the dog Lucky,
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  Speaker 1: who was tugging at his garments with piteous cries, as
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  Speaker 1: if to him his master was asleep and he would
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  Speaker 1: wake him dead. No, said the trapper. Ye see, he
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  Speaker 1: isn't very strong, and a little unsteady in his head,
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  Speaker 1: as I conceit, and yer come and in suddenly on
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  Speaker 1: him when he was expecting somebody else took him all back.
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  Speaker 1: But he'll come to in a minute if you fetch
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  Speaker 1: me the dipper of water. There, and the trapper moved
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  Speaker 1: to the side of the man who had swooned, knelt
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  Speaker 1: beside him, loosened his neck tie and began to chafe
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  Speaker 1: his wrists. The girl, quick as flash, slipped her hands
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  Speaker 1: from her mittens, threw off her jacket, and, casting aside
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  Speaker 1: her hood, glided to the pail that stood at one
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  Speaker 1: end of the hearthstone, and, stooping over the prostrate man,
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  Speaker 1: began to sprinkle the water with skillful fingers on his face.
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  Speaker 1: As she had thrown aside her hood and jacket, her
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  Speaker 1: hair escaped its fastenings. It was bright, auburn in color
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  Speaker 1: and abundant, and fell with many a wave and curl
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  Speaker 1: even to her waist. Whom was he expecting, asked the girl,
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  Speaker 1: As placing the dipper on the floor, she seized the
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  Speaker 1: other wrist and began to chaf at it with her own,
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  Speaker 1: soft and glowing palms. It's hard to say, young woman. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's certainly hard to say who the man was expecting,
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  Speaker 1: or who the old fool called John Norton was rarely
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  Speaker 1: looking for when he opened the door. You see, the
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  Speaker 1: man had his ups and downs, and the downs have
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  Speaker 1: had the best of it for the most part. And
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  Speaker 1: he was telling me the story of his life, and
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  Speaker 1: he got to an interesting point for He was telling
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  Speaker 1: me that the girl he loved died on his wedding night,
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  Speaker 1: and the night was Christmas Eve, and that her spirit
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  Speaker 1: always appeared to him on the same night each year,
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  Speaker 1: and at a certain minute too, and that the minute
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  Speaker 1: had come. And as he told the story with a
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  Speaker 1: good deal of earnestness, it sort of took hold of me.
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  Speaker 1: And when he jumped up and said she was coming,
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  Speaker 1: you see, I ra is too. And by the Lord
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  Speaker 1: of mercy, young woman. When I heard the light steps
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  Speaker 1: traveling up the path and heard you stop at the door, well,
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  Speaker 1: you see, here was the man that said the spirit
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  Speaker 1: was coming, and there was your steps, and the pups
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  Speaker 1: acting unnatural, and I, even the most thought the spirit
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  Speaker 1: had come. And when I just told you to come in,
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  Speaker 1: I certainly expected that an angel would take me at
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  Speaker 1: my word. And I concede. They did, said the old man,
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  Speaker 1: And he looked into the face of the girl, whose
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  Speaker 1: eyes as her hands continued to chafe the man's wrist.
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  Speaker 1: We're looking into the old man's face with an expression
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  Speaker 1: half of wonder and half of amusement in them. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I can see they did. And his eyes twinkled, and
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  Speaker 1: his face beamed with humorous, good nature, but in a
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  Speaker 1: body a little too solid for wings to lift, unless
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  Speaker 1: they make him on natural size and eternity. See, said
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  Speaker 1: the girl, he is coming to himself. I shouldn't wonder,
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't wonder, said the trapper. A faintin' has nothing to
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  Speaker 1: be concerned over. If the shuret band isn't too tight,
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  Speaker 1: water handy an an them who be tendin to the case,
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  Speaker 1: don't make too much fuss about it. All you have
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  Speaker 1: to do is let him lie flat on his back,
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  Speaker 1: flirt some water in his face off and on, rub
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  Speaker 1: the wrists a little, and keep up a kind of
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  Speaker 1: cheerful conversation. That's judicious treatment. As I've noted, there is
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  Speaker 1: such a thing as overdoing such matters, said the trapper, philosophically.
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  Speaker 1: And a man has got to have a good deal
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  Speaker 1: of sense till the nature alone, For nature is nature.
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  Speaker 1: And ye can't hurry you're out of her gait, whether
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  Speaker 1: the trouble be in the stomach or the head. But
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  Speaker 1: if you'll not hurry her so as to make her
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  Speaker 1: overrun the track, she'll work the scent up in time
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  Speaker 1: and be as certain of herself as a hound runnin
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  Speaker 1: with a high nose when the buck is in full sight.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, the man gave a sudden gasp, and
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  Speaker 1: a kind of convulsion shook his frame, at which the dog,
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  Speaker 1: Lucky gave him a short, quick, joyous bark and a
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  Speaker 1: frisk of genuine happiness. He's comin, too, said the trapper,
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  Speaker 1: speaking hurriedly and in a low voice. You do well
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  Speaker 1: to note the dog, for the girl had turned her
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  Speaker 1: large eyes toward him and his manifestation of happiness, which
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  Speaker 1: the trapper was not slow to observe. You do well
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  Speaker 1: to note the dog, for though he come from a
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  Speaker 1: most unreasonable cross, the dog a goodun He be comin
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  Speaker 1: to himself, whispered the trapper and young woman. Don't you
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  Speaker 1: be scared if he acts a little flighty? For though
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  Speaker 1: he be an honest man, and his knowledge be something wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: still he has his notions. Yes, he has his notions.
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  Speaker 1: So don't you be concerned if he acts a little flighty.
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  Speaker 1: The caution certainly did not come too soon, for after
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  Speaker 1: another gasp beheaved his chest, and another shiver ran through
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  Speaker 1: his frame. The man who missed it opened his eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and as he opened them, his gaze fell directly upon
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  Speaker 1: the girl. A more rapid or changeful play of features
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  Speaker 1: was never seen upon human countenance. It was true he
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  Speaker 1: had awoke from his trance, but reason that sure guide
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  Speaker 1: to correct vision, though struggling back from the depth to
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  Speaker 1: which she had been thrown, had not yet fully regained ascendency.
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  Speaker 1: Had there been an angel. Indeed before him, the awe
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  Speaker 1: of his look could not have been more profound than
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  Speaker 1: it was as it rested on the face of the girl,
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  Speaker 1: her air unbound, and waves of gold flowed over her shoulders,
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  Speaker 1: covering them almost from sight. Her large, expressive eyes were
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  Speaker 1: fastened on him, animated to a degree because of the curiosity,
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  Speaker 1: the expectation, and the sympathy which possessed their depths. The
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  Speaker 1: man's face was yet white with the pallor of his swoon.
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  Speaker 1: He gazed steadfastly a moment at her, who had seemed,
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  Speaker 1: to his expectant and indiscriminating vision, the bright being he
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  Speaker 1: had loved and lost long years ago. And then he
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  Speaker 1: timidly stretched one hand out toward her own, and, after
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  Speaker 1: an instant's hesitation, as if to summon courage, he gently
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  Speaker 1: touched the warm palm with a tip of his finger.
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  Speaker 1: Still he acted like one undecided. He struggled up to
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  Speaker 1: a sitting posture, passed his thin hand with steady pressure
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  Speaker 1: over his temples, once or twice, pinched his forehead with
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  Speaker 1: his fingers, as if by some physical effort he would
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  Speaker 1: recall his wandering faculties. And then, as his hand fell
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  Speaker 1: to his lap, he failed his eyes again upon the
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  Speaker 1: girl and gazed steadily at her face. The trapper's eye
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  Speaker 1: was on him, and he noted that as he gazed,
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  Speaker 1: the look of awe died out, and into its place
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  Speaker 1: came a look of pain, tempered with gentle sadness. Thou
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  Speaker 1: art like her, he said at length. Thy beauty is
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  Speaker 1: perhaps as great as hers, But thou art not she
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  Speaker 1: Thou hast come in her place. She was true in coming.
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  Speaker 1: She has been true in sending thee. She has kept
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  Speaker 1: her promise, old trapper, and given me the sign. What
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  Speaker 1: sign did she give, your friend, said the trapper. She
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  Speaker 1: said she would come each time, save one, and then
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  Speaker 1: she would send another, as pure as she, but happier,
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  Speaker 1: and that one should come a year lacking an hour
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  Speaker 1: before she would come, and when she came at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the year, lacking an hour, she would come
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  Speaker 1: for me, and we would find our second wedding at
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  Speaker 1: an altar where death could not part a young woman.
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  Speaker 1: Thou hast come in her place. The pledge is kept,
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  Speaker 1: and I read the sign old trapper, one year lacking
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  Speaker 1: an hour, and then the man who has missed it
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  Speaker 1: will be done with missing. Ye shall die of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord's appointment. Friend, said the trapper sturdily. We shall come
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  Speaker 1: to the edge of the great Clearin when the last
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  Speaker 1: step of the trail has been trodden, and not before
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  Speaker 1: sign or no sign. For no man may shorten a
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  Speaker 1: number of his steps, and no man lessen the number
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  Speaker 1: of hours. And no man may set twelve months beforehand
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  Speaker 1: the hour of his death or the manner of his going,
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  Speaker 1: whether he die in peace in his bed, or he
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  Speaker 1: be struck down in the scrimmage. Now, friend, said the trapper,
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  Speaker 1: lying hold of him gently but firmly, Let me help
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  Speaker 1: you up, and do ye get into your chair, for
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  Speaker 1: you be weak as a kitten. And I have other
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  Speaker 1: work to do where the Lord has made a mistake
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  Speaker 1: in sending this young woman here. And now, young woman,
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  Speaker 1: he resumed, when he had assisted the man to his chair.
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  Speaker 1: Whence come ye, and what evil has befallen ye that
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  Speaker 1: ye came runnin to my door on a winter's night.
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  Speaker 1: When I conceded, there wasn't a living creature of my
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  Speaker 1: kind within fifty mile on my cabin, and certainly none
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  Speaker 1: like ye who be from the settlements, as I plainly see.
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  Speaker 1: And the trapper turned absolutely white for an instant. His
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  Speaker 1: lips moved as if struggling for speech, but not a
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  Speaker 1: sound issued. At last, he said, while the pallor of
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  Speaker 1: an awful fear spread over his face. God of mercy,
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  Speaker 1: young woman, have you come from Henry? I don't know
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  Speaker 1: whom you call Henry, said the girl, evidently astonished at
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  Speaker 1: the dreadful looks of the trapper's face, the awful fear
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  Speaker 1: and pallor of it, as much as at the intensity
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  Speaker 1: of his exclamation. It was a spectacle, indeed, to see
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  Speaker 1: the change that came to the trapper's countenance. The whiteness
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  Speaker 1: of a terrible dread vanished, and his cheek took its
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  Speaker 1: natural hue. The tightness of his look relaxed, and his
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  Speaker 1: fingers that had been nervously clutched unclosed from the palm.
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  Speaker 1: God be praised, said the trapper, speaking as a man
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  Speaker 1: speaks when his feelings are too tense for silence. God
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  Speaker 1: be praised for your ignorance, I thought, and perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: boy was gone, and that my eyes would see his
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  Speaker 1: face no more. The grave under the pine is enough.
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  Speaker 1: When another of the three be made, may his eyes
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  Speaker 1: see it, not mine. But why did you come, continued
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  Speaker 1: the trapper, And what be your wants? My name is Magnet,
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  Speaker 1: said the young woman, and I came for help, and
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  Speaker 1: I want you to be quick, for though I do
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  Speaker 1: not think he is suffering from cold, and though he
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  Speaker 1: told me not to hurry, for he is in no pain,
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  Speaker 1: yet I know he must be in pain. For who
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  Speaker 1: is in pain? Speak quick, young woman, and put on
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  Speaker 1: your things. For if a man be in pain and
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  Speaker 1: he is waitin for us, as soon as we get
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  Speaker 1: to him, the better. It is. My brother, answered the girl,
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  Speaker 1: slipping into her warm fur lined jacket and tying her
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  Speaker 1: hood closely under her chin, while the old trapper shoved
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  Speaker 1: his feet into the moccasins and reached for the fox
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  Speaker 1: skin cap over the doorway. It's my brother, she repeated,
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  Speaker 1: who is sickly and has come into the woods because
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  Speaker 1: his physician has given him up and said he must die,
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  Speaker 1: and my brother said he wouldn't die, and I said
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  Speaker 1: so too, and the physician said perhaps he wouldn't if
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  Speaker 1: he could get into the woods. And so we started
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  Speaker 1: for your cabin, for we had heard of you, John Norton.
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  Speaker 1: My brother knows the man whose brother you saved in
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  Speaker 1: the rapids last year, and he told us to come
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  Speaker 1: straight to your cabin and you would care for us.
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  Speaker 1: And so we left our city home, as I said,
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  Speaker 1: and started for this point. A countryman brought us in
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  Speaker 1: from the edge of the woods till we struck the
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  Speaker 1: borders of the lake just after the sun had set,
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  Speaker 1: and he wouldn't go another step, but he said the
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  Speaker 1: ice was uncertain and he didn't know the breathing holes,
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  Speaker 1: and he proposed a camp till morning and then come on.
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  Speaker 1: But my brother was impatient to be here, for you see,
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  Speaker 1: he was excited and being so near to you, of
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  Speaker 1: whom he had read and heard so much, and he
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  Speaker 1: said he would walk if I would. And so we
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  Speaker 1: took the direction from the teamster, who said we would
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  Speaker 1: see the light of your cabin after we had passed
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  Speaker 1: the second island, and sure enough we did, and we
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  Speaker 1: got on famously, and we're almost here. My brother slipped
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  Speaker 1: and fell and sprained his ankle so that he could
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  Speaker 1: not walk. But I could see the light shining bright
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  Speaker 1: through your little window, and I hurried on, and I
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  Speaker 1: came running to your door. And you know the rest.
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  Speaker 1: It had all been told in far less time than
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  Speaker 1: it takes to ride it. For the girl spoke hurriedly
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  Speaker 1: in her excitement and didn't waste a word. You be
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  Speaker 1: a brave girl, magnet, said the trapper, And you have
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  Speaker 1: acted with judgment. Stay where you be, friend, said he
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  Speaker 1: speaking to the man who had missed it. Unless you
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  Speaker 1: feel I hissing two or three more logs into the fire,
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  Speaker 1: and say, continued the trapper, with his hand on the latch.
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  Speaker 1: Put over the kettle and get the water boilin. The
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  Speaker 1: boy will need a warm and drink when he comes. No, no, Magnet,
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  Speaker 1: you mustn't walk. Your feet had been far enough tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Get into the sled. And the old man pulled the
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  Speaker 1: sled from the corner of the building against which it
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  Speaker 1: was standing, and threw a bear skin over it in
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  Speaker 1: such a way that it would answer for a cushion
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  Speaker 1: and a covering. Both get into the sled and tuck
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  Speaker 1: yourself in, and I'll give you a ride such as
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  Speaker 1: you can't have in the settlements if your horse hasn't
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  Speaker 1: but two legs. No, no, said the old man, laughing
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  Speaker 1: to himself, as he started on. You needn't tell me
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  Speaker 1: the direction, for I've got the line of your trail,
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  Speaker 1: and it isn't often that I foll so small a
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  Speaker 1: track either. And the old man, laughing to himself, started
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  Speaker 1: on a dog trot up the lake, for the snow
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  Speaker 1: on the ice was light and offered little impediment. They
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  Speaker 1: had gone half a mile perhaps, when the trapper turned
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  Speaker 1: his face backward to the sled and said, well, magnet,
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  Speaker 1: are you a good judge of distance? I think you've
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  Speaker 1: gone halfway, said the girl in a clear hopeful voice,
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  Speaker 1: for it's a little this side of the island where
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  Speaker 1: he slipped. Good enough, said the trapper. You've got a
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  Speaker 1: judgmentical eye, for certain, And as it isn't likely to
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  Speaker 1: wake any neighbors, I'll send a sound down towards your brother.
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  Speaker 1: That'll let him know he ain't a thousand miles off.
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  Speaker 1: And the old trapper came to a stop for a
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  Speaker 1: single step and sent a call from his mouth into
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  Speaker 1: the frosty air, the echoes of which, passing from bluff
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  Speaker 1: to bluff, must have gone nearly to the inlet. The
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  Speaker 1: girl laughed pleasantly at the energy of the sound, sh
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  Speaker 1: said the trapper, and answering Hello, came across the surface
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  Speaker 1: of the snow, A brave and cheerful sound. It was
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  Speaker 1: full of gladsome courage, although by no means strong, as
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  Speaker 1: if the spirit rather than the mouth, sent it forth.
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  Speaker 1: That is Tom, said the girl. Dear old fellow, I'm
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  Speaker 1: afraid he thinks I've been gone a long time. He's
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  Speaker 1: a good un said the trapper, if a man can
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  Speaker 1: be judged by the sound of his voice, for his
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  Speaker 1: call had hope in it and a kind of cheerful
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  Speaker 1: certainty that the coward couldn't send forth. Tom is no coward,
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  Speaker 1: said the girl. He would have died long ago if
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  Speaker 1: he hadn't been determined not to. You don't think he'll
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  Speaker 1: die up here, do you? John Norton, and the girl
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  Speaker 1: put the question plaintively, die, ejaculated the trapper. Certainly not.
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  Speaker 1: No one can die up here unless the number of
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  Speaker 1: his days be run out by reason of his years,
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  Speaker 1: or his spirit be crushed by reason of his troubles die, No,
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  Speaker 1: No man can die with an appetite, and your brother
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  Speaker 1: will be eaten like Henry himself. Afore he has been
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  Speaker 1: in the cabin a week. Who is Henry, asked the girl.
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  Speaker 1: Henry be mine, said the trapper. I had two, Henry
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  Speaker 1: and the lad. The lad be gone, but Henry be left.
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  Speaker 1: You'll know him some day. Perhaps I didn't know that
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  Speaker 1: you had children, said the girl. Not art of the flesh, magnet,
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  Speaker 1: not utter the flesh, but arter the spirit. And Henry
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  Speaker 1: and the lad be mine are to the spirit. While
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  Speaker 1: the dialog had been going on, the old trapper had
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  Speaker 1: maintained his steady trot and at a pace that ate
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  Speaker 1: up the distance of a mile rapidly. I see him,
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  Speaker 1: said the trapper in a moment. He has crawled to
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  Speaker 1: the point of the island, and just lightnin' him afire. Here.
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  Speaker 1: Brother has his wits about him, that's certain, and is
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  Speaker 1: actin like a man of sense. But we'll give him
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  Speaker 1: a better fire than he'd make out here if he
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  Speaker 1: burnt the island. Over Here we are, said the trapper
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  Speaker 1: in a moment, as he swung up to the point
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  Speaker 1: of the island. Here we are, young man, and the
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  Speaker 1: cabin's not far away, Tom, Dear Tom, said the girl,
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  Speaker 1: as he jumped from the sled, and running up to
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  Speaker 1: the man seated on the shore, she flung both her
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  Speaker 1: arms around his neck and kissed him. Dear Tom, here
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  Speaker 1: is John Norton. Never mind a greetin now, said the
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  Speaker 1: old man. The air be bitin' and the cabin be warm,
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  Speaker 1: And putting his arms out, he lifted the young man
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  Speaker 1: upon the sled and wrapped him up warmly in the skin.
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  Speaker 1: And without another word, he seized hold of the tongue
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  Speaker 1: of the sled and started toward the girl, with many
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  Speaker 1: questions to her brother, touching his feelings, and with many
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  Speaker 1: a cheering word, touching the warm fire ahead and the
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  Speaker 1: hearty greetings she had received from the trapper, tramped along
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  Speaker 1: beside him. Thus the three, the trapper, happy in the
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  Speaker 1: thought of the deed he was doing, the young man
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  Speaker 1: who was determined not to die, and the girl, whose
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: love was equal to his courage, passed rapidly on over
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  Speaker 1: the snow and came to the trapper's cabin. End of
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  Speaker 1: chapter five