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He longed for his ankle to be well enough to allow pursuit; but when that time came Arthur and Eunice were due, and he must needs return to The Larches to make way for their arrival. It was disappointing, but he reminded himself that he had at least made one step in advance.
Cuckoos shouted in the wind-riven larches, green beyond imagining, at the back of the chapel. A blackbird meditated aloud in high rhapsody, very leisured, but very tireless, on matters deeper than the Coppice Pool far below, deep as the mystery of the chipped, freckled eggs in his nest in the thorn.
But they were no better on the other side, for the larches hid the meadow. They went down through them, therefore, to the bank of the little river the largest tributary of the Daur from the roots of Glashgar. "There he is!" cried Nicie. "I see him," responded Ginny, " with his cows all about the meadow." Donal sat a little way from the river, reading. "He's aye at 's buik!" said Nicie.
S'afternoon Bob got a letter from his mother to say that they were all coming down next week to stay at the Larches for the winter. They come almost every year, and have shooting-parties, and come to church and sit in the big square pew, where you can just see their heads over the side. They look so funny, sitting in a row without their bodies.
Six massive towers flank the walls of this famous castle, and are in tolerably fair preservation. Not far to the southward is the eminence known by the Welsh as "Yr-Wyddgrug," or "a lofty hill," and which the English call Mold. On this hill was a castle of which little remains now but tracings of the ditches, larches and other trees peacefully growing on the site of the ancient stronghold.
Then she kissed her own girls, clasped them to her in a passionate embrace, and drove off to the Larches in the carriage which had brought the young people home. Lady Darcy came out to meet her, and gripped her hand in welcome. "You have come! I knew you would. I am so thankful to see you. The doctor has come, and will stay all night. He has sent for a nurse " "And my Peggy?"
"Don't worry," called back Barry, and waved his hand with an air of gayety but there was no laughter on his face as he started off over the hill with Johnny Byrd. Over the hills went Johnny Byrd and down the trail and into a grove of pines. Up to the left went Barry Elder, out of sight among the larches. He walked briskly at first, his face clouded but set.
It was a lovely spring night, just after the sun was down, and I wanted a drop of milk fresh from the cow for something that I was making for dinner the next day; so I went through the kitchen-garden and through the belt of young larches to go to the shippen.
It is the advice of a worldly-minded old courtier to his son, given as a mere prudential maxim, at a time when, to make an impression and get on at court, a man had need to be richly dressed. That need has entirely passed away. Miss Larches. But, Mr. Grey, I remember your finding fault with the powder on the head-dress of that marquise costume, because it concealed the red hair of the wearer.
But remember that I expect you to admire them all, although I tell you that not one in ten of them is endurable, not one in fifty pretty, not one in a hundred beautiful. Miss Larches. Why, there aren't more than two or three hundred. Grey. About two hundred and fifty; and if you find more than two that fulfil all the conditions of beauty in costume, you will be more fortunate than I have been.
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