All she knew was that she was being
flung, first,[**unnecessary comma?] forward, then backward; and
then, oh, horrors! against the train window
near her where glass was all splintering
and crashing, through which ice and
water, mad, mad water and ice, were
rushing together.

There was an awful, punching jolt, a
frenzied shriek of steam, a splashing, hissing
roar--that, surely, could not be the
steel Thunder Bird's challenge, unless it
had suddenly become a wading goose--and,
lo! she was hurled straight out of
her dream across a Pullman aisle, fast
flooding, right into the girl with whom
she had once vainly measured eyelashes,--between
whom and herself had existed
that thin bridge of ice but one little
minute before.

Alas! poor human ice that couldn't
stand a moment under the blows of
Nature's ice-hammer.

Both pairs of girlish lashes were stark
with terror now.

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