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I'll show you a way, if you're not too proud to take advice from a girl." "Certainly not," Kit said, smiling. "I don't know why you think I'm proud." "Then perhaps you're obstinate; some of the dalesfolk are." "We're slow. We like to try things properly; and then, perhaps we stick to them longer than is needful if we find them good. But caution's prudent."
The isolated dwellings of the dalesfolk in the midst of tremendous solitudes little pastoral scenes such as Corot loved to paint and hemmed round by the sternest, most rugged nature, are one of the characteristics of Vosges scenery.
All this was not unusual and the dalesfolk would have borne it patiently had fuel not been short. Large fires were needed to dry the moisture that condensed in the flagged kitchens and soaked the thick walls, but coal could not be got at a price the house-wives were willing to pay.
He could not hold it much longer, and since the Askews were bringing down large quantities of peat, there was no ground for imagining the dalesfolk would give way. It looked as if he must meet them and he wrote a notice that coal would be delivered by the trailer lurry at a reduction of two-and-six a ton. When he had put this in an envelope for the printers, Bell knitted his brows.
Her white face spoke week by week to the dalesfolk as they sat in their high pews. Many a rough countrywoman, old perhaps, and crushed by toil and child-bearing, had wondered over her, had felt a sister in her, had loved her secretly. But the children's dreams followed St. Anthony rather the kind, sly old man, with the belled staff, up which his pig was climbing. Laura haunted the little place.
She paused and resumed when he went on with her: "The dalesfolk have missed you, particularly since your father died. It must have been a shock I felt it, too, because I saw him now and then. We were friends in spite of all." Kit was grateful for her frank sympathy, and felt he could talk to her about his father. "He did not tell me this, but he liked you." "He was just," Grace replied.
Roads were dug out, with walls of snow on either side from 10 to 15 feet in height, but the wind and fresh falls almost obliterated the passages soon after they had been cut. In Landstrothdale Mr. Speight tells of the extraordinary difficulties of the dalesfolk in the farms and cottages, who were faced with starvation owing to the difficulty of getting in provisions.
Then fell the throng into an ordered company; first went the music, and then a score of Face-of-god's warriors with drawn swords and uplifted spears; and then the flower-bedecked misery of the Runaways, men and women going together, gaunt, befouled, and hollow-eyed, with here and there a flushed cheek or gleaming eye, or tear-bedewed face, as the joy and triumph of the eve pierced through their wonted weariness of grief; then the rest of the warriors, and lastly the mingled crowd of Dalesfolk, tall men and fair women gaily arrayed, clean-faced, clear-skinned, and sleek-haired, with glancing eyes and ruddy lips.
The man was shrinking back as far as possible in a manner which suggested physical fear; he had heard the dalesfolk say a savage devil, easily aroused, lurked in all the Thurstons, and the one before him looked distinctly dangerous just then. Leslie was weak in limb as well as moral fiber, and it was Geoffrey who broke the painful silence.
Kit and he seldom jarred, and the dalesfolk, who did not know how like they were under the surface, sometimes thought it strange. Four or five of their neighbors sat in the kitchen, for the most part smoking quietly, but now and then grumbling about the recent heavy rain. This was not what they had come to talk about, and Peter waited.
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