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Chance had, in fact, guided the Val Darties to a spot where the South Downs had real charm when the sun shone.
"He asked me to send our hired man, and when I told him we hadn't any hired man, he said then he would come himself; but he was too sick. He said such queer things that I was frightened. And then he went to sleep, and I came. Please tell me what time it is; I must go to the office right away." "Indeed you won't," said Mrs. Downs. "You'll come straight upstairs and go to bed. I'll wake him up.
We made our way along the rounded summits of these well-grazed heights mild, breezy inland downs and descended through long-drawn slopes of fields, green to cottage doors, to where a rural village beckoned us from its seat among the meadows.
Jerry had unblushingly declared that he himself had "shaken" the horse Anglice, had stolen him twelve months since on Darnley Downs, and was therefore clearly entitled to the entire plunder.
There seemed to be a good many trees and bushes on top, and altogether she thought it a beautiful place, and one where a little girl might be happy to live. "You ain't the folks that's coming to live up to the island, be you?" said Mrs. Downs. "Do tell if you are? We heard there was some one. There hain't been nobody there for quite a spell back, not since the Lotts went away last year.
Thus, by the time we came over the great spur of the Downs that ends in Beachy Head, and looked over all Pevensea level to the Penhurst woods and hills beyond, I and Uldra were very good friends, and Relf was pleased that it should be so, and rode between us in high content.
What Old Mat called his little bit of theayter which his irreverent daughter was wont to describe with characteristic brutality as sheer swank was quickly over. As soon as the buggy left the fields and bumped down into the pack-horse track which led up the shoulder of the Downs, Old Mat halted. Boy slipped down from her seat, and the old man and Monkey Brand followed more leisurely.
He had no easy task, but by skill and patience he contrived, in spite of many adverse influences at the court, so to allay the bitter feelings that had been aroused by "the scandal of the Downs" that Charles and his queen were willing, in the early months of 1640, to discuss seriously the project of a marriage between the stadholder's only son and one of the English princesses.
I knew a fine little fellow, much made of by his family and friends, who used to be so peevish about all the little ups and downs of life, and had such a lamentable whine in his voice when he was thwarted in any trifle, that if you had heard without seeing him, you'd have sworn that the most miserable wretch in the world was bewailing the worst of catastrophes with failing breath.
The rough white road, full of flints, had taken them up by deep-hedged cuttings, through coverts where the spring flowers were just beginning to show in the undergrowth, and out on to the smooth turf of the downs.
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