They employed some of them, and, mounting the chairs, they were carried up, while I walked up by myself at a distance from which I could observe all that was going on.

The girls were quite merry, appeared to be enchanted with their ride up the cone, enjoyed the novelty of the sensation, and I heard their lively chatter and their loud peals of ringing laughter, and longed more than ever to be able to speak to them.
"Now the little girl that I had first seen--the child-angel, you know--seemed, to my amazement, to be more adventurous than the other.
By her face you would suppose her to be as timid as a dove, and yet on this occasion she was the one who proposed the ascent, urged on her companion, and answered all her objections.

Of course she could not have really been so plucky as she seemed.

For my part, I believe the other one had more real pluck of the two, but it was the child-angel's ignorance that made her so bold.

She went up the cone as she would have gone up stairs, and looked at the smoke as she would have looked at a rolling cloud.
"At length the bearers stopped, and signified to the girls that they could not go any further.