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I am, on my honour: for I 'm going to make Billy give up the service, since he can't give her up. There she is! he cried out, and waved his hat to a lady on horseback some way down the slope of a road leading to the view of our heathland: 'There's the only girl living fit to marry a man and swear she 'll stick to him through life and death. He started at a gallop.
The next evening Eustacia stood punctually at the fuel-house door, waiting for the dusk which was to bring Charley with the trappings. Her grandfather was at home tonight, and she would be unable to ask her confederate indoors. He appeared on the dark ridge of heathland, like a fly on a negro, bearing the articles with him, and came up breathless with his walk.
I knew he had it in him. But they're like nothing better than the weather; you can't put money on 'em and feel safe. Consequently he saw no good in them. 'She sticks to her post, he said, as we turned into the Durstan grounds. The girl was like a flag-staff on the upper line of heathland.
As they rode, the land began to get less fertile and less, till at last there was but tillage here and there in patches: of houses there were but few, and the rest was but dark heathland and bog, with scraggy woods scattered about the country-side.
I am, on my honour: for I 'm going to make Billy give up the service, since he can't give her up. There she is! he cried out, and waved his hat to a lady on horseback some way down the slope of a road leading to the view of our heathland: 'There's the only girl living fit to marry a man and swear she 'll stick to him through life and death. He started at a gallop.
A yearning for solitude and meditation was strong upon Paul, and taking a stout ash stick he went out on to the terrace at the rear of the house, crossed the lawns and made his way down to the winding path which always, now, he associated with Don. An hour's walk brought him to the brink of the hilly crescent which holds the heathland of the county as a giant claw grasping a platter.
It was the guns that were carried; the gunners invariably walked, sometimes carrying the guns and the appurtenances thereof. His very first day Dunshie was compelled to double across half a mile of boggy heathland carrying two large stones, meant to represent ammunition-boxes, from an imaginary waggon to a dummy gun.
Now it is simply undulating stretches of heathland, at this season freshly breaking into flower, with many pine trees, and the most invigorating air one can desire.
Oh yes, revoltingly unselfish. So pitifully anxious to please that I couldn't have said Boo to a goose, if I could have found a bigger one than myself, which is extremely doubtful. In fact, I was thoroughly worthy; and, my dear, God help the girl to whom her friends apply that adjective." She leaned forward, clasping her knees with her hands, and with her eyes fixed on the distant heathland.
Kent, Sussex, Surrey, all the southern heights about London, round away to the south-western of the Hampshire heathland, were accurately mapped in the old warrior's brain. He knew his points of vantage by name; there were no references to gazetteer or atlas. A chain of forts and earthworks enables us to choose our ground, not for clinging to them, but for choice of time and place to give battle.
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