The Keepsake of Friendship (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Black smoke rushed up, and the soldiers, again forming into ranks on a green slepe where the rising breeze drove the smoke from them, sent forth a about of triumph to the surrounding rooks. The rocks echoed it back again and again, and, as the last reverberation died away among the hills, another and yet wilder sound answered it from the depths of their forests. A yell of mingled voices arose from unseen spectators, which might have thrilled stouter hearts than those of the armed myrmidons of power. The march was again resumed; there appeared to be no farther passage through the everlasting barrier that rose beyond the village, and the Sieur de Montrevel led his men back through the defile he had descended so quietly an hour before. But at a sudden turn in the read, his quick eye discerned the figures of several mountaineers, vanishing behind the trees and rocks; and he halted, that his men, already panting from the fatigue of climbing the steep, might take breath before encountering the next and still more precipitous ascent. It was a sud den and fortunate pause; the next minute a fear ful sound was heard breaking the solemn still ness; his men's eyes turned wildly in every direction, not knowing at first whence it pro ceeded; but presently a tremendous rock came thundering and crashing down the precipice on.

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