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An' it'll take un his time to pass Peter when all 's done a bad auld chap in his day. Not that I'd soil your ears with it." "He said much the same 'bout you. When you was at Drewsteignton, twenty year agone " "A lie a wicked, strammin', gert lie, with no more truth to it than a auld song! He 'm a venomous beast to call home such a thing arter all these years."
"Yes, I'm all right." "What's the main interest of life for you now?" John reflected before answering. "Not quite sure. Depends on my mood. Just been buying a greyhound bitch at Drewsteignton. I'm going coursing presently. A kennel will amuse me. I spend most of my time with dogs. They never change. I turn to them naturally. But they overrate humanity." "Our interests are so different.
The attitude he now assumed was one of sustained patience and observation; and it may best be described in words of his own employment. Visiting Drewsteignton, about a month after the return of Chris Blanchard to her own, the man determined to extend his ride and return by devious ways. He passed, therefore, where the unique Devonian cromlech stands hard by Bradmere pool.
In England we have numerous examples in Cornwall, especially west of Falmouth, among which are Chun Quoit and Lanyon Quoit. There are dolmens at Chagford and Drewsteignton in Devonshire, and there is one near the Rollright Circle in Oxfordshire. Many of the so-called cromlechs of England are not true dolmens, but the remains of tombs of more complicated types.
Have I so many flesh-and-blood friends to remember? I arrived yesterday and called on you this morning, only to find you were at Drewsteignton; so I came to verify some figures at the cromlech, hoping we might meet the sooner." He was beside his brother by this time, and they shook hands over the hedge. "I'll leave the ladder and walk by you and have a chat." "It's too hot to ride at a walk.
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