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In the deep autumn Sir Donald Ulford had died rather suddenly, and it was found in his will that he had left his newly-acquired property, Casa Felice, to Lady Holme, who as everybody had long ago discovered was already living there in strict retirement, while her husband was amusing himself in various Continental towns.
"What's the good of it?" they asked, and could find no answer except the satisfaction of an old man listening to the distant roar of the new tumult by which he had "raised hell" again. The autumn of 1915 was wet in Flanders and Artois, where our men settled down knee-deep where the trenches were worst for the winter campaign.
This October afternoon is deliciously serene, there is not a cloud in the grayish-blue sky, where the sun, which has shed a pure and steady light since morning, has begun majestically to decline, like a good king who has grown old after a long and prosperous reign. How soft the air is! How calm and fresh! This is certainly one of the most beautiful of autumn days.
So the thick walls rose, and the low roof was on, and the thatch well bound down, and secured moreover with heavy stones, before the autumn storms arrived. And before the hard rains came down, all Macdonald's ponies were one evening seen approaching in a string, laden with peat a present to the lady.
'I am used to it, said Violet, with her patient smile. 'And it will not be four years before we meet again. I shall try hard to come to you in the autumn. 'How comfortable that would be! But you must not be uneasy about me, nor put any one out of the way. I can get on very well, as long as I have Johnnie.
'Is it not remarkable, said my friend to me, 'that the older I grow, I find autumn affecting me the more like spring? 'I am thankful to say, interposed Andrew, with a smile in which was mingled a shade of superiority, 'that no change of the seasons ever affects me. 'Are you sure you are right in being thankful for that, father? asked his son.
In January and February and March he did great things in Chancery. In April he came into Parliament. In May and June and July, he sat on committees. In August he stuck to his work till London was no longer endurable. In the latter part of autumn there was an extraordinary session, during which he worked like a horse.
So the boys listened and learned and laughed, and, as spring crept up the calendar, their only regret at the return of the ball season was that the club meetings would be over until next autumn. It was late in April when little Jimmy Duffy's father was called to Buffalo on business. The night before leaving, he said: "It's most annoying!
Also the weather had grown colder, and he was sensitive to atmospheric changes as any creature of the elements. But after a fortnight, when it was now the middle of the autumn, it grew quite warm again, and he revived and made such progress that he was able to be carried into the garden every day. There he sat in a chair on the lawn, with his feet on a sheepskin, and a fur cloak about him.
The pressure must have been very great which opened two new craters in the Atrio del Cavallo and forced out such a mass of matter. There is no evidence that water had been concerned in the late eruption of Vesuvius; but during the whole of the preceding autumn, the fall of rain had been unusually great and continuous.
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