But she soon came to rue this fact, for the driver wanted to talk and even made many abortive attempts that way.

But she could not fall in with his mood, and seeing this, he soon withheld all remarks and bent his full energies to the task of urging his horses up the interminable incline.
Houses, at which she scarcely looked, disappeared gradually from view, and groups of spreading trees and patches of upland took their places, deepening into the forest as they advanced.

When halfway up, the farther mountains, which had hitherto been hidden by nearer hills, burst into view.

Behind them the sun was setting, and the scene was glorious.

If she saw it at all, she gave no sign of pleasure or even of admiration.
Her head, which she had held straight up for the first quarter of a mile, sank lower and lower as they clambered on; yet she gave no signs of drowsiness--only of a mortal weariness which seemed to attack the very springs of life.