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Thus there is scarcely a cottage in the valley in which good books are not to be found under perusal; and we are told that it is a common thing for the Eskdale shepherd to take a book in his plaid to the hill-side a volume of Shakespeare, Prescott, or Macaulay and read it there, under the blue sky, with his sheep and the green hills before him.
Was it altogether impossible, and too late, 'stare super vias antiquas? Questions altogether above your Tadpoles and your Tapers, whose idea of the necessities of the age was that they themselves should be in office. Lord Eskdale came up to Mr. Rigby.
Many of the stones still bear his private mark, hewn with the tool into their solid surface, with honest workmanship which helps to explain his later success. But the young mason was beginning to discover that Eskdale was hardly a wide enough field for his budding ambition.
Altogether, on Telford's Highland roads alone, there are no fewer than twelve hundred bridges. Nor were these the only important labours by which Telford ministered to the comfort and well-being of his Scotch fellow-countrymen. Scotland's debt to the Eskdale stonemason is indeed deep and lasting.
'Well, the Princess is scarcely more lovely. 'Tis a pity the plumage is not as beautiful as the note. She is plain. 'No; not plain with that brow. 'Well, I rather admire her myself, said Lord Eskdale. 'She has fine points. 'Let us approach, said Sidonia. The song ceased, Lord Eskdale advanced, made his compliments, and then said, 'You were not at dinner to-day.
At another time, when engaged upon the viaduct at Pont-Cysylltau, he snatched a few day's leisure to run through North Wales, of which he afterwards gave a glowing account to his correspondent. He passed by Cader Idris, Snowdon, and Penmaen Mawr. "Parts of the country we passed through," he says, "very much resemble the lofty green hills and woody vales of Eskdale.
I must get away from this house of tears. I must be alone. I must wrestle with myself, regain my courage, kill the coward in me. I threw myself upon the mare, and rode out at a gallop towards the moors of Eskdale along the lonely country roads.
She supposed that she fell asleep while she was sitting, and fell down, for she had no recollection of lying down, where, if assistance had not arrived, in a very little time longer all aid would have been in vain. Captain Elliott now began to say he must think of leaving Eskdale.
I remember I wanted to bet Cassilis, at White's, on it when he married; but I thought, being his intimate friend; the oldest friend he has, indeed, and one of his trustees; it was perhaps as well not to do it. 'You should have made the bet with himself, said Lord Eskdale, 'and then there never would have been a separation. 'Hah, hah, hah! Do you know, I feel the wind?
'No, said Lord Eskdale, looking up to the ceiling, 'I am thinking how you may prevent Tancred from going to Jerusalem, without, at the same time, opposing his wishes. 'Ay, ay, said the duke, 'that is it. And he looked triumphantly to his wife, as much as to say, 'Now you see what it is to be a man of the world.
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