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I suppose I shall never know now." Feeling indisposed either for writing or reading, I determined to take a walk to Pentre y Dwr, a village in the north-west part of the valley which I had not yet visited. I purposed going by a path under the Eglwysig crags which I had heard led thither, and to return by the monastery. I set out. The day was dull and gloomy.
Dixon," Agatha joined in, "and you know how absurdly the Vaughans spoilt the cottagers. Oh, it was really wicked; one would think Mr. Vaughan wished to make them above their station. Edith and I went for a walk one day nearly as far as Pentre, and we begged a glass of water of old Mrs. Jones who lives in that pretty cottage near the brook.
Going up to a man of respectable appearance, who seemed to be superintending the others, I asked him in English the way to Pentre y Dwr. He replied that I must follow the path up the hill towards the house, behind which I should find a road which would lead me through the wood to Pentre Dwr. As he spoke very good English, I asked him where he had learnt it.
'Mr Gwynne wishes to know, ma'am, whether you have seen Colonel Vaughan, or whether he intends dressing at Pentre? asks the servant who opens the door. 'I have not seen him since the morning, and do not know what he means to do, is the reply. 'Did you see anything of him when you were out, Gladys? continues Miss Gwynne, after the servant has left the room.
I looked about me in the hope of seeing somebody of whom I could ask a question or two, but seeing no one, I turned to the south intending to regain Llangollen by the way of the monastery. Coming to a cottage I saw a woman, to all appearance very old, standing by the door, and asked her in Welsh where I was. "In Pentre Dwr," said she.
A man who could speak Spanish addressed him in that language as a foreigner "'I can't tell you how it was, sir, said he, looking me very innocently in the face, 'but I was forced to speak Spanish to you." At Pentre Dwr the man with the pigs heard his remarks on pigs and said: "I see you are in the trade and understand a thing or two."
I was now as I supposed in Pentre y Dwr, and a pentre y dwr most truly it looked, for those Welsh words signify in English the village of the water, and the brook here ran through the village, in every room of which its pretty murmuring sound must have been audible.
How often I have heard him say that the Vaughans were pauperizing all the common people about Pentre, and putting every one else in a most unpleasant position. Even from a worldly point of view it was very poor taste on their part. So different from the true charity that Paul speaks of."
'I heard some one say, ma'am, that he and Mr Gwynne had walked to Pentre, to see the dinner on the lawn. 'Oh! By the way, would you have liked to have gone to see these said diversions? If so, I can send some one else with the wine. 'Oh no, thank you, ma'am. I would much rather walk to see poor Lloyd. 'Then you had better make haste.
Was it likely that the groans of poor Parry would be unheard from the corner to which he had retired to hide his head by "the Ancient of days," who sits above the cloud, and from thence sends judgments? The Newspaper A New Walk Pentre y Dwr Oatmeal and Barley-Meal The Man on Horseback Heavy News.
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