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Already the sun had gone down into a windy-looking mist; and although there were still a few streaks of gold far off to the east on the hills and the black fir-woods, all was cold and grey about our onward path. An infinity of little country by-roads led hither and thither among the fields. It was the most pointless labyrinth.
It cost us a fatiguing ride of nearly twelve hours' duration most of it along by-roads and bridle-paths at intervals passing through tracts of swampy soil, where our horses sank to the saddle-girths in mud.
They did not escape the usual accidents that delay motorists: a tyre exploded one afternoon with a terrific bang, and the ladies of the party had to sit for an hour by the roadside, while the men-folk fixed on the Stepney wheel. Giles's love for by-roads landed him sometimes in difficulties. He whisked them once down a charming primrose-starred lane, only to find that it ended in a ford.
After going through all the apartments in the castle that we cared to see, or our conductress cared to show us, we drove in the park, along the "three-mile walk," and in the by-roads leading from it. The beautiful avenue, the open spaces with scattered trees here and there, made this a most delightful excursion.
Much of the feeling which belongs to the outside of London, in its approaches for the last few miles, I had lost, in consequence of the stealthy route of by-roads, lying near Uxbridge and Watford, through which we crept into the suburbs.
That morn, the fields, they surely never So fair an aspect wore; And never from the purple clover Such perfume rose before. O'er hills and low romantic valleys And flowery by-roads through, I sang my simplest songs, familiar, That he might sing them too. Our souls lay open to all pleasure, No shadow came between; Two children, busy with their leisure, He fifty, I fifteen.
As she walked slowly in the by-roads between the farms, she thought over all these things which tormented her, but above all else, she cherished an intense jealousy of the woman who had stolen her son from her. It was this hatred alone which prevented her from taking any steps, from going to look for him, to see him.
I supposed that somebody from one of the big houses in the neighbourhood had called, or, taking the lateness of the hour into consideration, that a motoring party had come, as they did sometimes Sanstead House standing some miles from anywhere in the middle of an intricate system of by-roads to inquire the way to Portsmouth or London. If my class had allowed me, I would have ignored the sound.
From that day they met each other along the roadside, in by-roads or else at twilight on the edge of a field, when he was going home with his horses and she was driving her cows home to the stable. He felt himself carried, cast toward her by a strong impulse of his heart and body. He would have liked to squeeze her, strangle her, eat her, make her part of himself.
'His lordship will lay out overnight, then? observed Sponge. 'Not he, replied Jack. 'Takes better care of his sixpences than that. Up in the dark, breakfast by candlelight, grope our ways to the stable, and blunder along the deep lanes, and through all the by-roads in the country get there somehow or another. 'Keen hand! observed Sponge. 'Mad! replied Jack.
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