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Speight, who has written a very detailed history of Richmondshire, more than 30,000 acres of this consist of mountain, grouse-moor and scar. For so huge a parish the church is suitable in size, but in the upper portions of the dales one must not expect any very remarkable exteriors; and Grinton, with its low roofs and plain battlemented tower, is much like other churches in the neighbourhood.
The wise man does not endure the torture of the furnace in order that he may be able to compete with operators in pork and company promoters; neither a steam yacht, nor a grouse-moor, nor three liveried footmen would add at all to his gratifications. Again Lucian said to himself: "Only in the court of Avallaunius is the true science of the exquisite to be found."
But in spring the desolation is utter, and the loneliest grouse-moor, and the boggiest burn, are more cheerful and varied than the Landes of Lannemezan, and the foul streamlets which have sawn gorges through the sandy waste.
This year, for the first time, he had visited no wild country; his journeying led only to Paris, to Vienna. In due season he shot his fifty brace on somebody's grouse-moor, but the sport did not exhilarate him. An odd and improbable alliance, that between Hugh Carnaby and Harvey Rolfe. Yet in several ways they suited each other.
She scrambled through agilely and then regarded him with surprise as he proceeded to replace the stones. "Why are you doing that?" she asked. "There are sheep up here." "Too many, considering that it's a grouse-moor; but what of it? They don't belong to us." "They belong to somebody who would rather they didn't stray," Lisle rejoined.
The thing isn't possible. The Duke of Sutherland, again, might shut up all Sutherlandshire; might turn whole vast tracts into grouse-moor or deer-forest; might prevent harmless tourists from walking up the mountains. And surely free Britons would never submit to that. The bare idea is ridiculous.
"I suppose," said she, clasping her fingers together in her lap "I suppose you are all eagerness about to-morrow morning?" "Oh, I am not going shooting to-morrow," said he. "What!" she exclaimed. "To be on a grouse-moor on the Twelfth, and not go out?" "It is because it is the Twelfth; I don't want to spoil sport," said he, modestly. "And I don't want to make a fool of myself either.
And presently, since Nelly showed no indication of wishing to join them, and could not be spared indeed, and since Robin was plainly ill at ease yachting up and down the coast, the General declared his intention of going off to a grouse-moor in Scotland, rented by an old friend, over which he had shot year after year for many years back.
Those people with her are the Whimples, very old acquaintances of mine; they're always having trouble, poor things." "Trouble is not one of those fancies you can take up and drop at any moment; it's like a grouse-moor or the opium-habit once you start it you've got to keep it up."
Nearly a year had passed since Nasmyth's return when Lisle at length reached England. Soon after his arrival, he was, as Nasmyth's guest, invited to join a shooting party, and one bright afternoon he stood behind a bank of sods high on a grouse-moor overlooking the wastes of the Border.
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