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I had no very clear purpose in my journey, but I steered east by the sun, for I remembered from the map that if I went north I would come into a region of coalpits and industrial towns. Presently I was down from the moorlands and traversing the broad haugh of a river. For miles I ran alongside a park wall, and in a break of the trees I saw a great castle.
"O, the lands of Milnwood! the bonny lands of Milnwood, that have been in the name of Morton twa hundred years!" exclaimed his uncle; "they are barking and fleeing, outfield and infield, haugh and holme!" "No, sir," said Henry, "you shall not suffer on my account. I own," he continued, addressing Bothwell, "I did give this man a night's lodging, as to an old military comrade of my father.
Bryerly, the strange Swedenborgian, followed by the equally unexpected apparition of Madame de la Rougiere, Austin Ruthyn's painful death, and the reading of his strange will consigning poor Maude to the protection of her unknown Uncle Silas her cousin, good, bright devoted Monica Knollys, and her dreadful distrust of Silas Bartram Haugh and its uncanny occupants, and foremost amongst them Uncle Silas.
I wonder what makes any one squint like that!" "Had one of his eyes knocked out and put in again upside down," said Dick. "Get out!" cried Tom. "Haugh, haugh, haugh, haugh, haugh, haugh!" cried Solomon. "There, he's laughing at you. I say, Dick, do you think he really does watch us?" "Sure of it. He thinks I houghed the poor horses.
So, there they come through the Netherwood haugh; upon my word, fine-looking fellows, and capitally mounted. He that is gallopping from the rear of the column must be Claver'se himself; ay, he gets into the front as they cross the bridge, and now they will be with us in less than five minutes."
The margin of the brook, opposite to the garden, displayed a narrow meadow, or haugh, as it was called, which formed a small washing-green; the bank, which retired behind it, was covered by ancient trees.
'Thorpe, equivalent to the German 'dorf' as Bishopsthorpe, Althorp, tells the same tale of a Norse occupation of the soil; and the terminations, somewhat rarer, of 'thwaite, 'haugh, 'garth, 'ness, do the same no less. You are yourselves learning, or hereafter you may be teaching others, the names and number of the English counties or shires.
It was because I feared an outbreak like this that I told you today what you will in a few hours learn from her." "What is to be done?" Rupert said, despairingly. "Nothing, my boy. At her marriage, your mother will of course live at the Haugh with Sir William. This house is mine, and if you cannot get on at the Haugh, it will be always open to you."
My only fear was that I should never get it to stop again. We talked on for twelve hours without ceasing, and, after a little sleep, went on again the whole of the next day." A loud guffaw from the occupant of a distant hammock made the boatswain stop short, and look round with an indignant glance. "I should like to know, Mr Haugh! Haugh!
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