They could defend themselves against cold, because the forest furnished unending fuel, but rain or hail, sleet or snow would bring severe hardship.

The day, however, favored them to the utmost.

It had seemed at dawn that it could not be more brilliant, but as the morning advanced the world fairly glowed with color.

The sky was golden save in the east, where it burned in red, and the trunks and black boughs of the forest, to the last and least little twig, were touched with it until they too were clothed in a luminous glow.
The besiegers seemed lazy, but Robert knew that the watch upon the fort and its approaches was never neglected for an instant.

A fox could not steal through their lines, unseen, and yet he never doubted.
Tayoga would come, and moreover he would come at the time appointed.