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Updated: May 26, 2025
A cheap cottage organ stood at one side and rush-bottomed chairs completed the furnishings. A small cuddy-hole housed the attorney and his wife. His mother, an ancient crone-like woman of withered, leathery face, and all her brood of grandchildren slept in two beds in the large, murky room which also accommodated dining table, cook stove and pantry accessories.
"Can you," she said with her own directness, "make a a person care for another person care very much?" Granny removed her pipe and chuckled. "What you want is toad ointment," she said. Toad ointment! Janet shuddered. That did not sound very nice. Granny noticed the shudder. "Nothing like it," she said, nodding her crone-like old grey head. "There's other things, but noan so sure.
The grass sparkled with dew; mushroom bulbs shoved through the turf at his toes; above him and beneath all was blaze. He crossed a shoulder, threading the gorse; skirted the edge of another huge coombe, troughed out beneath him; passed an ancient withered elder, squatting crone-like on the brow, and climbed a knoll that rose up bald out of the gorse. He topped the crest, and stopped suddenly.
I have sometimes thought whether the spirits that love solitary places, may not delight in appropriating, for embodiment momentary and partial, such a present shape as may happen to fit one of their passing moods; whether it is always the mere gnarled, crone-like hawthorn, or misshapen rock, that, between the wanderer and the pale sky, suddenly appals him with the sense of another.
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