Unluckily , just as it was completed , and the party had squeezed themselves into the hollow , down came the roof upon their heads , and buried every soul of them alive ! The next moment , up popped all their little heads out of the ruins , and the tall student 's head in the midst of them , looking hoary and venerable with the snow-dust that had got amongst his brown curls . And then , to punish Cousin Eustace for advising them to dig such a tumble-down cavern , the children attacked him in a body , and so bepelted him with snowballs that he was fain to take to his heels . So he ran away , and went into the woods , and thence to the margin of Shadow Brook , where he could hear the streamlet grumbling along , under great overhanging banks of snow and ice , which would scarcely let it see the light of day . There were adamantine icicles glittering around all its little cascades . Thence be strolled to the shore of the lake , and beheld a white , untrodden plain before him , stretching from his own feet to the foot of Monument Mountain . And , it being now almost sunset , Eustace thought that he had never beheld anything so fresh and beautiful as the scene . He was glad that the children were not with him ; for their lively spirits and tumble-about activity would quite have chased away his higher and graver mood , so that he would merely have been merry -LRB- as he had already been , the whole day long -RRB- , and would not have known the loveliness of the winter sunset among the hills . When the sun was fairly down , our friend Eustace went home to eat his supper . After the meal was over , he betook himself to the study , with a purpose , I rather imagine , to write an ode , or two or three sonnets , or verses of some kind or other , in praise of the purple and golden clouds which he had seen around the setting sun . But , before he had hammered out the very first rhyme , the door opened , and Primrose and Periwinkle made their appearance . `` Go away , children ! I ca n't be troubled with you now ! '' cried the student , looking over his shoulder , with the pen between his fingers . `` What in the world do you want here ? I thought you were all in bed ! '' `` Hear him , Periwinkle , trying to talk like a grown man ! '' said Primrose . `` And he seems to forget that I am now thirteen years old , and may sit up almost as late as I please . But , Cousin Eustace , you must put off your airs , and come with us to the drawing-room .
The children have talked so much about your stories , that my father wishes to hear one XXXXX them , in order to judge whether they are likely to do any mischief . ''
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