Thomas Gainsborough The Blue Boy painting

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passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out--on the other side of the mountains. I fear from the sounds that boulders have been piled up, and the trees uprooted and thrown across the gate. I am sorry; for the trees were beautiful, and had stood so long.'`I felt that something horrible was near from the moment that my foot first an arched passage with a level floor leading on into the dark.`Let us sit and rest and have something to eat, here on the landing, since we can't find a dining
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touched the water,' said Frodo. 'What was the thing, or were there many of them? ''I do not know,' answered Gandalf, 'but the arms were all guided by one purpose. Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' He did not speak aloud his thought that whatever it was that dwelt in the lake, it had seized on Frodo first among all the Company.Boromir muttered under his breath, but the echoing stone magnified the sound to a hoarse whisper that all could hear: `In the deep places of the world! And thither we are going against my wish. Who will lead us now in this deadly dark? ''I will,' said Gandalf, 'and Gimli shall walk with me. Follow my staff! 'As the wizard passed on ahead up the great steps, he held his staff aloft, and from its tip there came a faint radiance. The wide stairway was sound and undamaged. Two hundred steps they counted, broad and shallow; and at the top they found