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Two hours or so earlier, David, perceiving some Assuagement in the / storm, and his host having offered to go at once to the doctor and the / schoolmaster, had taken his mare, and mounted to go home. He met with / no impediment now except the depth of the snow, which made it so hard / for the mare to get along that, full of anxiety about his children, he / found the distance a weary one to traverse.
When at length he reached the Knowe, no one was there to welcome him. / He saw, however, by the fire and the food, that Marion was not long / gone. He put up the gray, clothed her and fed her, drank some milk, / caught up a quarter of cakes, and started for the hill.