Father bought the land, thinking there would be a yield of ore thereabout; and they have seized it, rightly enough, but they dispute our claim for the valuation we put on it.

A small sum they would consent to pay.

It would be a very small sum, and I 'm father's son, I will have justice.' 'Yes!' Carthinia joined with him to show the same stout nature.
'We have nothing else except a bit to toss up for luck.' 'And how can I help being a burden on my brother ?' she inquired, in distress.
'Marry, and be a blessing to a husband,' he said lightly.
They performed a sacrifice of the empty bottle and cracked cup on the site of their meal, as if it had been a ceremony demanded from travellers, and leaving them in fragments, proceeded on their journey refreshed.
Walking was now high enjoyment, notwithstanding the force of the sun, for they were a hardy couple, requiring no more than sufficient nourishment to combat the elements with an exulting blood.

Besides they loved mountain air and scenery, and each step to the ridge of the pass they climbed was an advance in splendour.

Peaks of ashen hue and pale dry red and pale sulphur pushed up, straight, forked, twisted, naked, striking their minds with an indeterminate ghostliness of Indian, so strange they were in shape and colouring.