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Updated: June 10, 2025
Here and there is a little scrubby woodland, and sometimes we passed over a muddy stream which came down from the Alps. The land is not more than half-cultivated, and the villages are small and poor.
To this must be added the prejudices of ancient birth and Jacobite politics, greatly strengthened by habits of solitary and secluded authority, which, though exercised only within the bounds of his half-cultivated estate, was there indisputable and undisputed. Still, however, the conscious pride of possessing them gave additional importance to his language and deportment.
It is a rocky piece of ground, long ago cleared, but now fast relapsing into the wildness and freedom of nature, and marked by those half-cultivated, half-wild features which birds and boys love.
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Rans des Vaches for them.
As to that and his great, spreading, half-cultivated farm, all either of them needed was ready money and management. These were blessings Ham was now made reasonably sure of, on his return from his wedding-trip, and he was likely to appreciate them. As for Dabney Kinzer, he was in no respect overcome by the novelty and excitement of the wedding-day.
They were no longer children, grasping at the first fruits of a half-cultivated wilderness. They were adults, beginning to plan the satisfaction of on appetite which had been sharpened by self-denial, and made self-conscious by maturity. The North, after the war was over, did not have much time for serious reflection upon its meaning and consequences.
It is not, however, though sometimes so described, the largest grape vine in England. To the north of the Palace reached by a gate in the wall of the Long Walk, or first seen by those who come to Hampton Court Palace through the Lion Gate is the Wilderness, a half-cultivated place contrasting greatly with the parts of the grounds that we have already been visiting.
A tiny brook ran with a sharp, silvery tinkle on its farther edge and it was bordered by a light barrier of white railing. Beyond were spacious, half-cultivated meadows, stretched out for miles in the lap of low-lying hills.
He had commenced with a lie, which he now found it impossible to repudiate. No, he could not insult this girl by telling her the truth. That surely was out of the question. Miss Guir touched the horse with the whip, and the station was soon out of sight. They ascended a long hill with gullies, bordered by worm fences and half-cultivated fields.
Had I awaked from a long sleep just before reaching Paris, I should have guessed I was riding through Maryland, and should soon see the dome of the Capitol at Washington rising above the trees. So much wild and bushy or barren and half-cultivated land, almost under the walls of the French capital, was a surprise.
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