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Also he would often engage with Duncan his henchman now recovered from his wounds in the exercise of arms, or with Allan Redmain sail over to Arran to have a day's hunting among the fells.
I told her I did not know, and the idea had never before occurred to me: and she said, `Well, then, it is high time it did, and some to spare! Do all the people in Cumberland ask you such droll questions?" I said I thought not, but my Aunt Kezia did, often enough. "Well, she is a real curiosity!" said Miss Newton, and went away laughing. Brocklebank Fells, April the 10th, 1746.
She was large, perhaps five feet, ten inches, tall; a Juno figure, handsome and lithe. Such a woman of her age, about twenty-two years, does the work of a man, makes copra, fells trees, lifts heavy stones, and is a match for the average man in strength.
They had no candles on the fell, yet, rather than stay in the blackness of the cave, Eric would wrap sheepskins about him and sit by the edge of that gulf down which the head of the Baresark had foretold his fall, and look out at the wide plains and fells and ice-mountains, gleaming in the silver shine of the Northern lights or in the white beams of the stars.
It can't be 'tis come to that yet; and the call was in the air, I'm told, all yesterday, and distant thunder to-day, travelling this way over Blarwyn Fells; and 'twill be a night no one will be out, much less on the mountain side." The Crazy Parson Mrs.
Thomas Betson died in 1486, and was thus an exact contemporary of those other Merchants of the Staple, George and Richard Cely, whom he must have known; indeed, William Cely, their cousin and agent, writes from London to George in Calais in 1481, advising him that he has dispatched 464 fells to him in the Thomas of Newhithe, 'and the sayd felles lyeth nexte be afte the maste lowest under the felles of Thomas Bettson'. By the aid of the 'Stonor Letters and Papers', which contain many letters from and concerning him during the years of his partnership with Sir William, and of the 'Cely Papers', which are full of information about the life of a Merchant of the Staple at Calais, Thomas Betson may be summoned before us by a kindly magic until he almost lives again.
And weak as he is on 's legs, poor fells; which marr'ge 'll cure, bein' a certain rem'dy." "Mrs. Chump! I beg you to listen." "Mr. Wilfrud! and I can see too, and it's three weeks and ye kissed little Belloni in the passage, outside this vary door, and out in the garden."
There's an inn here at this junction: there's the Moor Cock Inn a mile or so along the road which we must take before we turn off to the moorland and the fells. It's going to be a black night look at those masses of black cloud gathering there! and possibly a wet one, and we've no waterproofs. But it's for you to say I'm game for whatever you like." "Do you know the way?" asked Spargo.
From early morn till late evening the valley was wrapped in damp clouds or moving rain, which swept down from the west through the great basin of the hills, and rolled along the course of the river, wrapping trees and fells and houses in the same misty cheerless drizzle.
'That those places in France, and that sky should be in the same world! he said, under his breath, pointing to the glow on the eastern fells, as he threw himself down on the turf beside her. Her face flushed with exercise and happiness suddenly darkened. 'Don't don't talk of them to-night! she said passionately 'not to-night just to-night, George!
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