dark waves were tossed a little in the morning breeze.
The trunks of dead trees stand about this lake, and all its shores are
ragged with ghastly drift-wood; but it was open to the sky, and although
the heavy clouds still obscured all the mountain-ranges we had a sense
of escape and freedom that almost made the melancholy scene lovely.

How lightly past hardship sits upon us! All the misery of the night
vanished, as if it had not been, in the shelter of the log cabin at Mud
Pond, with dry clothes that fitted us as the skin of the bear fits him
in the spring, a noble breakfast, a toasting fire, solicitude about our
comfort, judicious sympathy with our suffering, and willingness to hear
the now growing tale of our adventure. Then came, in a day of absolute
idleness, while the showers came and went, and the mountains appeared
and disappeared in sun and storm, that perfect physical enjoyment which
consists in a feeling of strength without any inclination to use it,
and in a delicious languor which is too enjoyable to be surrendered to
sleep.

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