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Lauvellen, to the east, was visible to the summit; and Raven Craig, to the west, loomed black before the moon. A cutting wind still blew, and a frost had set in sharp and keen. Already the sleet that had fallen was frozen in sheets along the road, which was thereby made almost impassable even to the sure footsteps of the mountaineer.
They rolled with heavy thuds down the brant sides of the fell down, down, down. But I kept closer, closer. Presently I heard the howl of the wolves " "No, Sim; not that, old friend." "Yes, the pack from Lauvellen. They'd been driven out of their caves not even they could live in their caves tonight." The delirium of Sim's spirit seemed to overcome him.
The sun had risen over Lauvellen, and the white wings of a fair morning lay on the hamlet in the vale below. Sim stood long on the Raise, straining dim eyes into the south, where the diminishing figure of his friend was passing out of his ken. It was gone at length; the encircling hills had hidden it. Then the unfriended outcast turned slowly away.
The pack-horse pedler was their swiftest newsman; the pedler on foot was their weekly budget. Five miles along the pack-horse road to the north stood their market town of Gaskarth, where they took their wool or the cloth they had woven from it. From the top of Lauvellen they could see the white sails of the ships that floated down the broad Solway.
The city of Wythburn stood in a narrow valley at the foot of Lauvellen, and at the head of Bracken Water. It was a little but populous village, inhabited chiefly by sheep farmers, whose flocks grazed on the neighboring hills. It contained rather less than a hundred houses, all deep thatched and thick walled.
"Say, if your conscience will let you I know how tender it is say you saw me go over Lauvellen in the direction of Fairfield. Say this quietly say it to old Matthew in a whisper and as a secret; that will be enough." "I've shared with that patriarch some secrets before now, and they've been common property in an hour common as the mushrooms on the common common as his common saws common "
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