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Anon they came to Bolton's Bench, beneath a cluster of pine-trees on a hilly bit of common, and then the long straight road to Southampton lay before them in the faint moonshine, with boggy levels, black furze-bushes, and a background of wood on either side. Violet sat looking steadily out of the window, watching every bit of the road.
They had no suspicion that she was one of the lights of the world one of the wells of truth, whose springs are fed by the rains on the eternal hills. Turning a clump of furze-bushes on the common, they met Mary. She stepped from the path. Mr. Wardour took off his hat. Then Mary knew that his wrath was past, and she was glad. They stopped.
Speak, can't you, fellow?" The voice hoarse and commanding the tall, spare figure, the grey hair it could be none other than Brian Harper. Nathanael called to him. "Uncle Brian, we have been looking for you everywhere. Anne wants to see you. Come." "I will." He walked away and was lost in the furze-bushes; but when the carriage drove up to the door they found him already standing there.
A man ran out suddenly from one of the furze-bushes by the road, and a voice cried, "Stop them, boys!" The road seemed suddenly full of people, who snatched at our reins, and hit us with sticks. I got a shrewd blow over the knee, and I heard Marah say something as he sent one man spinning to the ground. "Crack, crack!" went the carbines behind us.
But he had already slipped from my side and swung himself by furze-bushes and grass down the steep slope to the water's edge. It was a breathless moment. The eger travelled slowly in its passage, changing the smooth, sparkling river to a whirl of conflicting currents, in which no boat could live least of all that light pleasure-boat, with its toppling sail. In it was a youth I knew by sight, Mr.
Always trying to make iron do what iron won't do that's how you may put it." Young John went up to Balmain; and there, sure enough, he found wrens and titlarks flitting about everywhere, cheeping amid the furze-bushes on the low stone hedges and the granite boulders, where the winter rains had hollowed out little basins for themselves, little by little, working patiently for hundreds of years.
The furze-bushes below him were braided with cobwebs, and the stays, lifts, and braces of the barque might have passed also for threads of gossamer spun from her masts and yards, so delicately were the lines indicated against the hillside.
The chief noises were women's shrill cries, men's laughter, Susan's stays and pattens, Olly Dowden's "heu-heu-heu!" and the strumming of the wind upon the furze-bushes, which formed a kind of tune to the demoniac measure they trod. Christian alone stood aloof, uneasily rocking himself as he murmured, "They ought not to do it how the vlankers do fly! 'tis tempting the Wicked one, 'tis."
Hastily picking it up he ran a few yards away, and placed it among the furze-bushes, intending to take it home on his way back, and then returned to the flock.
We were afraid of being late. Oswald told the others what Procrastination was so they got to the furze-bushes a little after two o'clock, and it was rather cold. Alice and H. O. and Pincher hid, but Pincher did not like it any more than they did, and as we three walked up and down we heard him whining. And Alice kept saying, 'I am so cold!
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