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Giles suddenly went after her. "Marty, it was for your good that I was rough, you know. But warm yourself in your own way, I don't care." When she had run off he fancied he discerned a woman's dress through the holly-bushes which divided the coppice from the road. It was Grace at last, on her way back from the interview with Mrs. Charmond.
The thrush flew, with a few halts, practically all day and well into the night, and the northeast wind and the Frost King chased him south. He roosted in a great fastness of age-old holly-bushes within a wood, whose branches were packed with his relations redwings, thrushes, and blackbirds, and also starlings all tired out, all booked for the south. Some woods seem to hold a curse of gloom.
It might have looked dreary, but that some well-grown evergreens were clustered round the house, and others scattered here and there relieved the eye; a few holly-bushes, singly and in groups, proudly displayed their bright dark leaves and red berries; and one unrivalled hemlock, on the west, threw its graceful shadow quite across the lawn, on which, as on itself, the white chimney-tops, and the naked branches of oaks and elms, was the faint smile of the afternoon sun.
I asked her if she minded being left alone, as I should like to go arid help; and having her full and glad permission to leave her alone, I went off, following her directions: through the farmyard, past the cattle-pond, into the ashfield, beyond into the higher field with two holly-bushes in the middle. Plenty of loud, hearty, cheerful talking; but no minister, no Phillis, no Mr Holdsworth.
The holly-bushes look delightfully green from the study windows. Here is a fine bust of Her Majesty, by Noble, and a statuette of Miss Florence Nightingale, with whom Sir Robert frequently came in contact during the Crimean War.
London passed; then solitary hamlets here and there; then dun fields running to the river's edge like thirsty deer. In Deptford Reach some lords who were coming down by water passed them, racing with a little Dutch boat from Deptford to the turn. Their boats had holly-bushes at their prows and holiday garlands along their sides.
Before I explain, recall, if you please, my notice, clearly given, that if I helped you, it must be as the blind man would help the lame. I am poor; for I find that, when I have paid my father's debts, all the patrimony remaining to me will be this crumbling grange, the row of scathed firs behind, and the patch of moorish soil, with the yew-trees and holly-bushes in front.
"Father told me that day I went to Epping Forest with him, that the rose-bushes, and the may-bushes, and the holly-bushes were the bird's barns, for there were the hips, and the haws, and the holly-berries, all ready for the winter." "Yes; that's all very true. So you see the birds are provided for. But there are no such barns for you and me, Diamond." "Ain't there?" "No.
They were close to the house, yet screened from it by the holly-bushes, when one could be heard to say distinctly, as if with his face turned to the cottage 'Lady Mountclere gone for good? 'I suppose so. Ha-ha! So come, so go. The speakers passed on, their backs becoming visible through the opening. They appeared to be woodmen. 'What Lady Mountclere do they mean? said Ethelberta.
Then I went to Swarthmore to Judge Fell's, and from there to Ulverstone, where the people heard me gladly, until Justice Sawrey the first stirrer-up of cruel persecution in the North incensed them against me, to hale, beat, and bruise me, and the rude multitude, some with staves and others with holly-bushes, beat me on the head, arms, and shoulders till they deprived me of sense.
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