1 The road was rugged, but still we seemed to fly over it with a feverish haste.
2 All day long we seemed to dawdle through a country which was full of beauty of every kind.
3 The passengers drew back with a sigh of gladness, which seemed to mock my own disappointment.
4 I could only see the gleam of a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed red in the lamplight, as he turned to us.
5 They were driven by a tall man, with a long brown beard and a great black hat, which seemed to hide his face from us.
6 It seemed as though the mountain range had separated two atmospheres, and that now we had got into the thunderous one.
7 Then the mountains seemed to come nearer to us on each side and to frown down upon us; we were entering on the Borgo Pass.
8 This was emphasised by the fact that the snowy mountain-top still held the sunset, and seemed to glow out with a delicate cool pink.
9 Here and there seemed mighty rifts in the mountains, through which, as the sun began to sink, we saw now and again the white gleam of falling water.
10 It seemed to me that we were simply going over and over the same ground again; and so I took note of some salient point, and found that this was so.
11 When it grew dark there seemed to be some excitement amongst the passengers, and they kept speaking to him, one after the other, as though urging him to further speed.
12 This was not very pleasant for me, just starting for an unknown place to meet an unknown man; but every one seemed so kind-hearted, and so sorrowful, and so sympathetic that I could not but be touched.
13 Here and there was a peasant man or woman kneeling before a shrine, who did not even turn round as we approached, but seemed in the self-surrender of devotion to have neither eyes nor ears for the outer world.
14 I did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous, and yet it seemed so ungracious to refuse an old lady meaning so well and in such a state of mind.
15 Sometimes we saw little towns or castles on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side of them to be subject to great floods.
16 The sound was taken up by another dog, and then another and another, till, borne on the wind which now sighed softly through the Pass, a wild howling began, which seemed to come from all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
17 As the evening fell it began to get very cold, and the growing twilight seemed to merge into one dark mistiness the gloom of the trees, oak, beech, and pine, though in the valleys which ran deep between the spurs of the hills, as we ascended through the Pass, the dark firs stood out here and there against the background of late-lying snow.
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