Look how Orizaba grows! It is like a pillar holding up the heavens!" Ned gazed in admiration.

He did not wonder that Almonte loved this country of his, so full of the strange and picturesque.

The great mountain grew and grew, until its mighty cone, dark below, and white above, seemed to fill the horizon.

But much of the gayety of Almonte departed.
"Before night," he said, "we will be with General Cos, who is my commander.

As you know, he is the brother-in-law of General Santa Anna, and--he is much inflamed against the Texans.