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Everything seems to breathe out the spirit of departed ages. It is one vast relic of "Merrie England's" bygone splendour. It was the old original "Palace of the Peak," nor was it unworthy of the name.
I hope that the foul old days of the villainous "ring" may never be recalled by anything seen in our day, for there never were any "palmy days," though there were some ruffians who could not be bought. Yet the worst things that happened in the bygone times were not so much fitted to make a man think solemnly as that one delicious phrase "their valets were not on the spot."
He lived in the thatched house, as in bygone days, but he seemed not to belong to it any longer, to be no longer interested in anything, to look upon those people, his son, the wife and the child as strangers whom he did not know, to whom he never spoke. The winter glided by. It was long and severe.
Hence they cannot oppose, though they may conflict, if the resultant behaviour contributes towards survival. The majority of birds live to-day in constant danger from predatory species, and that this danger was still greater in bygone ages there can be but little doubt.
"Oh, it's the kitchen!" A light had now been struck, and the huge fireplaces of this kitchen of bygone days could be seen. Everything seemed complete, even to the woodbox which once held the tremendous logs. "How in the world could they see to cook in such a dark place?" inquired the practical John.
They stood on the top of a lofty range of hill, and, underneath them lay a vast semicircle, miles in extent, of gleaming white sand, that had in bygone ages been washed in by the Atlantic. Into this vast plain of silver whiteness the sea, entering by a somewhat narrow portal, stretched in long arms of a pale blue.
This valley is so strangely picturesque, so full of the curiosities of nature and bygone art, that if I had not been a loiterer before, I should have learnt to loiter here. Keeping on the Aveyron side of the river, I soon reached the village of St.
In happy bygone days he had been fond of sport, and in a trip to North America were well-remembered perils and pleasant adventures. And now this talk of the tiger-hunt had roused in him a strong interest, and set him recalling days, when he was very different to what he was now.
And she had sung in the strange land, among the strange people, with her heart breaking with thoughts of the sea and the hills and the rude and sweet and simple ways of the old bygone life she had left behind her. "Sheila!" She thought it was her father calling to her, and she rose with a cry of joy.
Close by the fire, lying on a luxuriously-cushioned couch, is a young lady, whose pale, thin face bears traces of weary pain. Yet the dark eyes are bright and smiling, and the voice has still its own merry ring, which plainly betrays the old Winnie of bygone days.
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