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Updated: May 1, 2025
Then at last the long journey drew to its close and he was passing through the last stretch of heavy forest that bounded his estate upon the east, and then this was traversed and he stood upon the plain's edge looking out across his broad lands towards his home. At the first glance his eyes narrowed and his muscles tensed. Even at that distance he could see that something was amiss.
Courant trotted forward crying a word of hope, and they pricked after him to where the low bulwark loomed above the plain's swimming mystery. When they reached it he was standing at the edge of a caverned indentation. Dead grasses dropped against the walls, withered weeds thickened toward the apex in a tangled carpet.
Two days later Bim suggested that they should take a day's ride in the open and spend the night at the home of a friend of hers in a settlement known as Plain's End, Harry having expressed a wish to get out on the prairies in the saddle after his long term of travel on a steamboat. "Are you sure that you can stand an all day's journey?" Bim asked.
But we enjoy them more than those who will enter them. When you descend to the plain, you lose sight of the plain's immensity and the far horizon." The soothing influence that Christophe exercised over Georges and Emmanuel had the source of its power in Grazia's love.
The village was a straggling half-mile of low cottages, lost as it were on the level of a wide plain. Across this plain, bare but for a few lines of poplars and stunted willow-trees, Wogan had ridden all the afternoon; and so little did the thatched cottages break the monotony of the plain's appearance, that though he had had the village within his vision all that while, he came upon it unawares.
Big, broad-shouldered, muscular, yet agile, a head set like a Greek statue, and a face nobody could ever make a picture of Jondo's face for me the curling brown hair, soft as a girl's, the broad forehead, deep-set blue eyes, heavy dark brow, cheeks always ruddy through the plain's tan, strong white teeth, firm square chin, and a smile like sunshine on the gray prairies.
At this the man threw back his head and burst into a laugh, so deep, so rich, so exuberantly joyous, that it fell upon the plain's grim silence with the incongruous contrast of sunshine on the dust of a dungeon. She sat upright with her anger boiling toward expression.
When they lost sight of the woods at Plain's End the young man, with his cavalry training, was able to ride standing on his saddle until he had got it located. It reminded him of riding in the Everglades and he told of his adventures there as they went on, but very modestly.
Nothing yet, she signaled back, then far on the plain's rose-brown limit saw a dust blur and gave a cry that brought him running and carried him in nimble ascent to her side. His old eyes could see nothing. She had to point the direction with a finger that shook. "There, there. It's moving far away, as if a drop of water had been spilled on a picture and made a tiny blot."
"I protest I have no head for charades," said Count Victor, with a gesture of bewilderment. "I do not know what you mean." Mungo chuckled with huge satisfaction. "Man, it's as plain's parridge! There's a gentleman in the toon down by that's a hot wooer, and daddy's for nane o' his kind roon' Doom; d'ye tak' me?" "But still but still " "But still the trystin' gaes on, ye were aboot to say.
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