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Updated: September 20, 2025
"Well, do you make any progress?" "Oh, I think so. The mere fact of my existence here ensures that. I dare say you have heard tell of me, as the countryfolk say?" The question helped Denzil to understand why Mrs. Wade was content with Polterham. He smiled. "Your influence won't be exerted against me, I hope, when the time comes?" "By no means. Don't you see that I have already begun to help you?"
But although Robin Hood was a robber, the common people soon learned to love him, for no poor man was ever the poorer on account of his outlawry rather were the countryfolk in the neighborhood of Sherwood Forest better off than before, because he made it a point of honor to rob the rich only to bestow large gifts upon the poor and many a present of food and gold was brought by him to the starving serfs and humble people in the neighborhood.
Also, the fact that a church is out of sight does not always mean that it is out of mind; and when the fine, deep-sounding peal of Lanteglos bells rings for service on Sunday mornings, a good number of countryfolk wend their way through the lanes and meadows towards it.
Early in the morning there was a great clanging of bells; and the ceremony of the blessing of the pigs took place, I heard, but I was not abroad early enough to see it, a laziness for which I fancy I need not apologize, as the Catholic is known to be an earlier religion than the Protestant. When I did go out, the streets were thronged with people, the countryfolk having come in for miles around.
And as for lying down on sofas in the drawing-room after dinner, you could as soon get a mad bull to lie down on a sofa as Adrian, if there was what Lutwyche calls company." So that evening the beauty of the Earl's daughter whose name among the countryfolk, by-the-by, was "Gwen o' the Towers" was less destructive than usual to the one or two new bachelors who helped the variation of the party.
There was three fiddlers and two at the flute, most of them blind, but not the less dangerous on that account; and they kept the town in a ferment, even playing the countryfolk home to the farms, followed by bands of townsfolk. They were a quarrelsome set, the ploughmen and others; and it was generally admitted in the town that their overbearing behaviour was responsible for the fights.
This image is what has most vividly remained with me, of the day I thus so ineffectually recover; the precious ill-set gem or domestic treasure of Santa Fina, and then the wonderful drive, at eventide, back to Siena: the progress through the darkening land that was like a dense fragrant garden, all fireflies and warm emanations and dimly-seen motionless festoons, extravagant vines and elegant branches intertwisted for miles, with couples and companies of young countryfolk almost as fondly united and raising their voices to the night as if superfluously to sing out at you that they were happy, and above all were Tuscan.
The countryfolk whisper that these birds are the souls of those who have been drowned at the ford those who have dared to pass unwarily when the tide was pouring in with the force of the ocean behind it.
By portraits he meant indecent photographs; and in the Arethusa, an austere and rising author, he thought to have identified a pornographic colporteur. When countryfolk in France have made up their minds as to a person's calling, argument is fruitless.
Early in the morning there was a great clanging of bells; and the ceremony of the blessing of the pigs took place, I heard, but I was not abroad early enough to see it, a laziness for which I fancy I need not apologize, as the Catholic is known to be an earlier religion than the Protestant. When I did go out, the streets were thronged with people, the countryfolk having come in for miles around.
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