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Monmouth is in full flight with what's left him of his horse. When I quitted the field, he was riding hard for Polden Hill." He dropped into a chair, his accents grim and despairing, his eyes haggard. "Lost?" gasped Wilding, and his conscience pricked him for a moment, remembering how much it had been his fault however indirectly that Feversham had been forewarned.
When the tide rose we were gone; and Hubba's men sought the body of their chief, and raised a mound over it. But they had no mind to stay on our side of the river, and they went to the Polden Hills, and laid the land waste far and wide, even to holy Glastonbury, until they joined Guthrum's force at Edington.
"What can I have the pleasure of doing for you?" Mr. Polden produced a sheet of proofs from his pocket. He passed them over to Mannering. "I should like you to examine these, sir," he said. "In type already!" Mannering remarked, calmly. "In proof for our evening's issue," Polden answered. Mannering read them through. "It will cost you several thousand pounds!" he said.
Erpwald and I sat on the bench before the ealdorman's house in the late sunshine of the long July evening, talking of the morrow, and of Eastdean, and aught else that came uppermost, so that it was pleasant to think of, and before us we could see the long road that goes up the slope of Polden hills and so westward toward the Devon border.
But lacking all opportunity for investigation at the moment, he deemed it wisest to say no more just then lest he should betray his watchfulness. They were the first to arrive upon the ground an open space on the borders of Sedgemoor, in the shelter of Polden Hill. But they had not long to wait before Wilding and Trenchard rode up, attended by a groom.
"She saw a telegram on Sir Leslie's table at breakfast, a telegram from the man Polden. She read it and demanded an explanation. Sir Leslie tried all he could to wriggle out of it, but in vain. She appealed to me. Even I had a great deal of difficulty in dealing with him, but eventually he gave way." "Then the telegram," Mannering asked, "wasn't that from you?" She shook her head.
I am sorry, but there was always this possibility, wasn't there?" "And this telegram?" she asked. "I know Polden, the editor of the paper, and he referred to me to know if there could be any truth in it." "These are lies!" she declared. "You were the instigator. You set them on the track." "I have nothing more to say," Borrowdean declared, coldly. "I have," she said.
The purple and gold of Sedgemoor, relieved by the soft outlines of the Polden hills, the grim summits of Taunton Dean and the Blackdown range, the wooded Quantocks dipping to the Severn, and the giant mass of Exmoor bounding the far horizon, these great splashes of color, softened and blended by belts of farmland and the blue smoke of clustering hamlets, formed a picture that not even Britain's storehouse of natural beauty can match too often to sate the eyes of those who love a charming landscape.
All day it was splashing and swashing through mud and mire, the rain-drops shining on the gun-barrels and dripping from the heavy-footed horses. Past the swollen Parret, through Eastover, by the peaceful village of Bawdrip, and over Polden Hill we made our way, until the bugles sounded a halt under the groves of Ashcot, and a rude meal was served out to the men.
Before concluding this epistle, which indeed is more truly to be called a novel, I would have you know that Lady Polden was inoculated, together with all her family, for the smallpox two months since, excepting only Miss Jenny, that none could persuade from fear of the lancet.
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