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Presently, however, she drew herself erect, and Mrs. Burgoyne fancied that she shivered. 'Ah! this is a hill-air, she said, and she took from her arm a light evening cloak, and threw it round Miss Foster. 'Oh, I am not cold! It wasn't that! 'What was it? said Mrs. Burgoyne pleasantly. 'That you feel Italy too much for you? Ah! you must got used to that.
And in despite of such fires, the unrestricted space and pure hill-air notwithstanding, the noisome ditches wherein the cribbed, cabined, and confined defenders of Gueldersdorp alternately grilled and soaked, were alleys of musk-roses, marvels of sanitary purity compared with the works of the besiegers, and the abominable camps, where, in the absence of a nocturnally active Quartermaster-Sergeant, with his band of pioneers, stench took you by the throat and nose, while filth absorbed you over the ankles.
And before he knew the man did as he was told, and found himself speaking strange words, while his head hummed and danced as if in a fever. "Now lay ye down and put your ear to the earth," said the bird; and the man did so. Instantly a cloud came over his brain, and he did not feel the ground on which he lay or the keen hill-air which blew about him.
Far up the stream rose the grim hills which hem the mosses and tarns of that tableland, whence flow the greater waters of the countryside. An ineffable freshness, as of the morning alike of the day and the seasons, filled the clear hill-air, and the remote peaks gave the needed touch of intangible romance. But as I fished I came on a man sitting in a green dell, busy at the making of brooms.
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