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But she would not prolong her stay; there was a fatigue and depression about her which she said could only be dispelled by the sweet fresh air of her native moorlands. "Felix and Hilda have been more to me than any words could tell," she said to Mr. Clifford and Jean Merle, "and now I have lost them I feel as if more than half my life was gone.
It was only when the Lord of Moorlands went into town to spend an hour or so with Kate and he was a frequent visitor prior to his accident that his old manner returned. He loved the girl dearly and was never tired of talking to her. She was the only woman who would listen when he poured out his heart. And Kate always welcomed him gladly.
"He told him there was not a dog at Moorlands who would not have treated his puppy better than he had me and another thing he told him and that was that after to-day I was HIS son forever!" St. George had been standing at the front window with his back to them, looking out upon the blossoms.
And, stimulated by this thought, he drew out from a handsome morocco case a superb pendant of emeralds and diamonds a work of art, that glittered as he displayed it, like a star on a frosty night. "Pretty thing, isn't it?" he said proudly. "Eight hundred pounds, and cheap, too! It was ordered for Miss Vere, two months ago, by the Duke of Moorlands.
"Alec, go and tell Matthew to bring my gig to the front porch and be sure you see that your young master's heavy driving-coat is put inside. Mr. Harry spends the night with me." The secrecy enjoined upon everybody conversant with the happenings at Moorlands did not last many hours.
But the English countryside is not all greenness and softness, blossomy lanes, moated granges, and idyllic villages. It by no means always suggests the gardener, the farmer, or the gamekeeper. It is rich, too, in wildness and solitude, in melancholy fens and lonely moorlands.
This is an interesting peculiarity of Scotch scenery; civilization sapping the barbarism of the wilderness; wheat-fields mordant biting in upon peaty moorlands, or climbing to the tops of cold, bald mountains, shearing off their thorny locks of heather and covering them with the well-dressed chevelure of yellow grain.
Our journey, however, between Manchester and Sheffield was not through a rich tract of country, but along a valley walled in by bleak, ridgy hills extending straight as a rampart, and across black moorlands with here and there a plantation of trees.
In remote glens, unfrequented moorlands, often in the night season, and amid storm and tempest, when the men of blood could not venture out of their lairs, to pursue the work of destruction, he displayed a standard for truth, and eagerly laboured to win souls to Christ. His last sermon was preached at Borrowstoness, from Isaiah liii. 1, on January 29th, 1688.
Having found his fishing appliances Ned hurried off to the school, where his chum Tompkins was already waiting him, and the two set out at once on their expedition. They had four miles to walk to reach the spot where they intended to fish. It was a quiet little stream with deep pools and many shadows, and had its source in the heart of the moorlands.
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