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The mist lay very thick all about round it thinned away soan to see soht by the storm; here and there lay trees uprooted, while everywhere was a tangle of broken boughs and trailing branches, inso no sh these leafy tangles, the birds, awaking, began to fill the direw to a sweet claladso the first beam of sun, felt heartened thereby 'spite s, and hastened with blither steps Thus in a while I brake forth of the desolate trees and caerows before et lorious in purple and pink and gold, whose level beaarden all sweet and fresh and green, while, in the scowling woods behind, the sullen mists crept furtive away till they were vanished quite and those leafy solitudes becaer was very sore, a need I purposed to satisfy soon and at all hazards; therefore, havingthethrough the woods I had chosen el in place of the one lost, shortish and knotted and very apt for quick wrist-play, and I plucked forthto trim my staff therewith; but with it poised in my hand, I stopped all at once, for I saw that the point of the stout blade (the which I had sharpened and whetted to an extreme keenness), I perceived, I say, that the blade was bent soain, the early sun flashing back fro how this had chanced, and bethinking me of those two deadly blows I had struck in the dark I scrutinised my knife, blade and haft, yet found nowhere on it any trace of blood, so that 'twas manifest the fellow had worn soue ith a steel skull to line his hat So it seeh he was) I was vaguely glad 'twas not my hand had sent him to his account