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"But, look," he added, "you doubted my word when I told you the rising was at an end. The beacon fires on Boulsworth Hill and on the Grange of Cliviger are extinguished; that on Padiham Heights is expiring nay, it is out; and ere many minutes all these mountain watch-fires will have disappeared like lamps at the close of a feast." "By our Lady, it is so," cried the abbot, in increasing terror.
And as he spoke, he seized a brand and plunged it into the peat fire, while his example was followed by the two monks. "It is the beacon on Blackstone Edge," cried the abbot; "and look! a second blazes over the Grange of Cliviger another on Ightenhill another on Boulsworth Hill and the last on the neighbouring heights of Padiham. Our own comes next.
I regret now that I never met Charlotte Bronte, as she was quite a near neighbor of ours; in fact, I could have ridden or walked over to Haworth at any time. That village is just on the northeast border of the great Boulsworth moors, where my hut was pitched. At the time of my encampment there Charlotte Bronte had been dead about eighteen months.
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