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Updated: June 2, 2025
It opened on a steep path which, after traversing two fields, terminated in the beech-wood where now ran the iron track of the new railroad. Catherine Nagle unlocked the orchard gate, and went through on to the field path. And then she slackened her steps. For hours, nay, for days, she had been longing for solitude, and now, for a brief space, solitude was hers.
They mended their pace, and a final desperate run landed them among the drifted coppery leaves and bare grey and green roots of the beech-wood. "Oh, glory!" said Jimmy, throwing himself down. "How do you do?" The bailiff looked very nice, the girls thought.
One night, however, the father vole, while foraging near the hedgerow, was snapped up and eaten by the big brown owl from the beech-wood across the valley. In the woodlands the greatest expert on the ways of voles was the brown owl.
The picture of this lady gazing after us with perfect good-breeding, as we rode away at speed, followed by the lamentations of her women, remains with me to this day; filling my mind at once with admiration and melancholy. For, as I learned later, she fell ill of the plague where we left her in the beech-wood, and died in a night with both her servants.
While the others are arguing about this plan, the son-in-law attempts a private understanding with Freneli, to the effect that he will further Uli's cause if she will be complaisant with him. Freneli snatches up a beech-wood stick and belabors him soundly, while he yells for help, and finally escapes through an open door.
For an hour, nearly, we all sat thus with the wind coming up the valley, howling in the beech-wood, and shaking the casement as it passed outside. Within, the only sound was the father's voice. This ceased at last; he shut the Bible, and put it aside. The group that last perfect household picture was broken up. It melted away into things of the past, and became only a picture, for evermore.
Coming back out of the little wood, I took John a new way I had discovered, through the prettiest undulating meadow, half-field, half-orchard, where trees loaded with ripening cider apples and green crabs made a variety among the natural foresters. Under one of these, as we climbed the slope for field, beech-wood, and common formed a gradual ascent we saw a vacant table laid.
But he was so thoroughly "the master," with all his kindness, that no one ventured either to question or interfere. Summer waned. Already the beech-wood began to turn red, and the little yellow autumn flowers to show themselves all over the common, while in the midst of them looked up the large purple eye of the ground-thistle. The mornings grew hazy and dewy.
Ravenel and Miss Halifax walk together down the garden and into the beech-wood, where the leaves were whispering and the stock-doves cooing; and where, I suppose, they told and listened to the old tale old as Adam yet for ever beautiful and new. That day was a wonderful day.
"I wonder how much stuff for his mind that student of ladies will win at Malbank," laughed Prosper to himself, little knowing, indeed. Leaving the high road on his right hand, Prosper struck over the heath towards a solemn beech-wood, which he took to be the very threshold of Morgraunt. As a fact it was no more than an outstretched finger of its hand, by name Cadnam Thicket.
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