sentinel-ghosts

Updated: July 24, 2025

"I fear," she said when he tried to draw her out of her contemplative mood, showing her the wild furzy slopes and the fir-trees, almost the only trees that grow in this region standing in black clumps on the hill-tops, like sentinel-ghosts of the old Romans, who used to encamp there "I fear you have made me as much in awe of you as you have the pony."

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - Agatha's Husband: A Novel