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Now, do you know, I thought she had, but it must be 'Becca Rudd's well I'm thinking of." Bessy stepped outside for a moment, and came back with a basin of water in her hand. "What sort of water is this, Bessy river water?" said Rotha languidly, with eyes riveted on an oak chest that stood at one side of the kitchen.
'That's done the trick! he whispered to 'Becca. It was indeed a splendid advertisement of the charms of Robert. When the girl came out she was pale and trembling, and a crowd was round the tent. 'What was it like? asked a bailiff. 'Oh! horrid! you wouldn't believe, she said. 'It's as big as a barn, and that fierce. It froze the blood in my bones.
Chiusi means for me the mingling of grey olives and green oaks in limpid sunlight; deep leafy lanes; warm sandstone banks; copses with nightingales and cyclamens and cuckoos; glimpses of a silvery lake; blue shadowy distances; the bristling ridge of Monte Cetona; the conical towers, Becca di Questo and Becca di Quello, over against each other on the borders; ways winding among hedgerows like some bit of England in June, but not so full of flowers.
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