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For some distance the ground was green with moss and wood-sorrel; but the tug-of-war came when the vast banks of loose stones hot, bare, and shale-like were reached. On gaining the plateau, I threw myself down upon the heather and looked at the scene below. The mingling of rock, forest, and stream was superbly desolate.
To struggle up a steep hill, over slipping shale-like stones, or through an undergrowth of holly and brambles, then to scramble down and to climb again, repeating the exercise every few hundred yards, may have a hygienic charm for those who are tormented by the dread of obesity, but to other mortals it is too suggestive of a holiday in purgatory.
Up that dark trickle he climbed, and the sun climbed with him. The grass gave him hand-hold. The chalk was rough and shale-like. He dug knees and toes into it. There was a constant dribble of stuff away from beneath his feet, and once a little land-slide, slithering seaward. Beneath was nothing but a shining waste, waiting for him. He rather felt than saw it: for he dared not look down.
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