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Updated: July 20, 2025
The hand of time revolved without his giving heed, and often night surprised him in his fantastic reveries. The good country-folk bad been sorely puzzled by these solitary walks in the depths of the woods.
They meant kindly. But the country-folk came of an obstinate stock, fierce to resent what they could not understand. Half a century before, a Dutchman, Cornelius Vermuyden by name, had arrived and drained their country for them; in return they had cursed him, fired his crops, and tried to drown out his settlers and workmen by smashing the dams and laying the land under water.
A little way across the river, but nigher to the wood, was a house or cot of that country-folk, and an old woman sat spinning in the door.
Hastings Clive has toys, the wooden and earthen toys for which Benares was ever famous among Indian children, nondescript animals, and as non-descript idols, little Brahminee bulls with bells, and artillery camels, like those at Rohilcund and Agra, Sahibs taking the air in buggies, country-folk in hackeries, baba-logue in gig-topped ton-jons.
He, a soldier, had let slip thirty golden hours. He was bitterly jealous for his dear Service. "We shan't be relieved," he snarled. "How can the soldiers relieve us when they don't know we want relief? Knapp didn't get through told you so already once." "But the country-folk, sir! Surely they'll report." "No, they won't," stonily. "This is Sussex.
While we had been sleeping he had written a loving letter to my grand-uncle, who had yesterday forbidden him his presence, to bear witness to his duty and thankfulness. The cocks still were crowing in the yards, and the country-folk were coming into town with asses and waggons, when I mounted my horse to ride forth with my brother.
Familiars of the inn country-folk of the immediate neighbourhood of course began to comment on the state of things, joking among themselves about Mr. Ruddiman's activity behind the bar. The under-master himself was in an uneasy frame of mind. When Miss Fouracres' aunt had gone, he paced for an hour or two about the garden; the hostess was serving cyclists.
But Wilding made no concession to hopes or desires when he dealt with facts. "Men will flock to you, no doubt; persecution has wearied many of the country-folk, and they are ready for revolt. But they are all untrained in arms; they are rustics, not soldiers.
Now she was very pretty, with dancing blue eyes and a profusion of golden curls; she had, too, a most winning manner, hard for any one to resist; and these personal attractions, added to style of dress that had never been seen or imagined among the simple country-folk, rendered her a most important person, so that no "tea-fight" or merry-making was complete without Nelly Curtis.
But agriculture is not always so backward and primitive. There are great landowners and large farmers who use the newest and best agricultural implements. The Government does what it can to encourage the use of artificial manures, and there are societies which render important services to agriculturists and to fruit-growers. Amid such labours live the quiet country-folk.
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