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"He's yonder," thought Robbie, and urged on the mare with her burden.
He remembered that Ralph had said, "Chain the young horse to the mare
at the bottom of the pass," and he did so. Before going far, however,
he found this new arrangement impeded rather than accelerated their
progress.
"The pass has too many ins and outs for this," he thought, and he
unchained the horses. Then they went up the ravine with the loud ghyll
boiling into foam at one side of them.

VII.
"I cannot go farther, Rotha. I must sit down. My foot is swelling. The
bandage is bursting it."
"Try, my girl; only try a little longer: only hold out five minutes
more; only five short minutes, and we may be there."
"It's of no use trying," said Liza with a whimper; "I've tried and
tried; I must sit down or I shall faint." The girl dropped down on to
the grass and began to untie a linen bandage that was about her ankle.
"O dear! O dear! There they are, more than half-way up the pass.
They'll be at the top in ten minutes! And there's Ralph; yes, I can
see him and the dog.


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