What then?
With our coals we shall supply----" ("Newcastle," said the Doctor, again.) "The British fleets in the East Indies----" "And compete with Borneo," said the Doctor, quietly, "which contains more coal than ever India will burn, at one-tenth the distance from her that we are.

If that is a specimen of your prophecies, Major, you are but a Micaiah after all." "Well," said the Major, laughing, "I cannot reel it off quite so quick as you; but think we shall hardly have time for any more prophesying; the sun is getting very low." We turned and looked to westward.

The lofty rolling snow-downs had changed to dull lead colour, as the sun went down in a red haze behind them; only here and there some little elevated pinnacle would catch the light.

Below the mountain lay vast black sheets of woodland, and nearer still was the river, marked distinctly by a dense and rapidly-rising line of fog.
"We are going to have a fog and a frost," said the Major.

"We had better hurry home." Behind all the others rode Alice, Sam, and myself.