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Ralph shuddered. It had been as he thought. Then he said,--
"Yes, yes; but you'll come now, like a brave fellow--'a braw chiel,'
you know."
Sim started at the pleasantry with which Ralph had tried to soothe his
spirits. It struck a painful memory. Ralph felt it too.
"Come," he said, in an altered tone.
"No," cried Sim, clasping his hands over his head. "They're worse than
wild beasts, they are. To-night I went up to the cave as usual. The
wind was blowing strong and keen in the valley; it had risen to a
tempest on the screes. I went in and turned up the bracken for my bed.
Then the rain began to fall; and the rain became hail, and the hail
became sleet, and pelted in upon me, it did. The wind soughed about my
lone home--my home!"
Again Sim reeled in the agony of his soul.
"This is peace to that wind," he continued; "yes, peace. Then the
stones began to rumble down the rocks, and the rain to pour in through
the great chinks in the roof of the cave. Yet I stayed there--I
stayed. Well, the ghyll roared louder and louder.


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