heather-carpet

Updated: May 27, 2025

As they stood lingering in the hollow, unwilling to leave the gnarled thorns, the heather-carpet, and the glow of western light symbols to them henceforth that they too, in their turn, amid the endless generations, had drunk the mystic cup, and shared the sacred feast Diana perceived some movement far below, on the open space in front of Beechcote.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Testing of Diana Mallory