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Between them, a short distance up the hill, I caught sight of a lodge-gate, with a park and a fair avenue beyond it; but of these I had no more than a glimpse, for almost at once my lady led us off to the right and along a rutted cart-track, black with the mould of rotted leaves, that wound up the valley bottom and close alongside of the river.
And just as it had become intense, very abruptly and without any preliminary sound I heard firm, quick footsteps on the little wharf. Somebody coming along the cart-track had just stepped at a swinging gait on to the planks. That somebody could only have been Mr. Powell. Suddenly he stopped short, having made out that there were two masts alongside the bank where he had left only one.
It was not in the lane, but on a kind of private road or cart-track which issued from it; went through a gate and under a hedge; expanded itself in an open space of carefully weeded gravel just opposite the front door, and became a more insignificant and much rougher track on the other side, passing by the stacks into the field, and finally disappearing altogether.
Yesterday I went to the lane which I visit every year at this time, the deep, rutty cart-track, descending between banks covered with giant fronds of the polypodium, and overhung with wych-elm and hazel, to that cool, grassy nook where the noble flowers hang on stems all but of my own height. Nowhere have I seen finer foxgloves.
He's following the path going slower walking, and trying to look both sides at once in the undergrowth." A pause, and then he said, with a jerk: "Take that coat off." Amaryllis obeyed, and lay still. Beside the rutted cart-track, a few yards from where they lay, was a pile of brushwood, cut and stacked for fuel.
In silence they set out along the cart-track which skirted the verge of the trees. To break the silence was exactly what Rodney wished to do, and yet could not do to his own satisfaction. In company it was far easier to approach Katharine; alone with her, the aloofness and force of her character checked all his natural methods of attack.
The cart-track grew fainter and fainter, until it was washed out altogether by another little stream, dark, turbulent, and rapid.
Gates had to be opened, and my poor driver breathed hard from the continual getting down and up. In the end a long and heavy cart-track brought us to the loneliest light that I have ever seen. It shone on the side of a hill in the heart of an open wilderness as solitary as a beacon-light at sea. It was the light of the cottage which was to be my temporary home.
A deep lane leads abruptly down the hill; a mere narrow cart-track, sinking between high banks clothed with fern and furze and low broom, crowned with luxuriant hedgerows, and famous for their summer smell of thyme.
There was the sound of wheels upon the cart-track across the wide open field in front of the house. "Here comes Mr. Whitelaw," she said, looking out into the gathering dusk; "and there's some one with him." "Some one with him!" cried Mrs. Tadman. "Why, my goodness, who can that be?" She ran to the window and peered eagerly out. The cart had driven up to the door by this time, and Mr.
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