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'And all the country north of the house, open champaign, sandy feildes, very dry and pleasant for all kindes of recreation, huntinge, and hawkinge, and profitble for tillage . . . The house hath a large prospect east, south, and west, over a very large and pleasant vale . . . is seated from the good markett towns of Sherton Abbas three miles, and Ivel a mile, that plentifully yield all manner of provision; and within twelve miles of the south sea.
"We'll push on." said Gabriel, remounting his humid steed. Although the road along its greater part had been as good as any turnpike-road in the country, it was nomin- ally only a byway. The last turning had brought them into the high road leading to Bath. Coggan recollected himself. "We shall have him now!" he exclaimed. "Where?" "Sherton Turnpike.
"Long tears upon their faces, waxen white With extreme sad delight." He broke the silence by saying in a whisper, "Come in." "No, no, Giles!" she answered, hurriedly, stepping yet farther back from the door. "I am passing by and I have called on you I won't enter. Will you help me? I am afraid. I want to get by a roundabout way to Sherton, and so to Exbury.
The want of success with his evening party he had accepted in as philosophic a mood as he was capable of; but there had been enthusiasm enough left in him one day at Sherton Abbas market to purchase this old mare, which had belonged to a neighboring parson with several daughters, and was offered him to carry either a gentleman or a lady, and to do odd jobs of carting and agriculture at a pinch.
Giles saw their eloquent look on this day of transparency, but could not construe it. He turned into the inn-yard. Marty, following the same track, marched promptly to the hair-dresser's, Mr. Percombe's. Percombe was the chief of his trade in Sherton Abbas.
He turned and saw a certain Fred Beaucock once a promising lawyer's clerk and local dandy, who had been called the cleverest fellow in Sherton, without whose brains the firm of solicitors employing him would be nowhere. But later on Beaucock had fallen into the mire.
Even his subjection was not made congruous throughout, for the harness being too short, his tail was not drawn through the crupper, so that the breeching slipped awkwardly to one side. He knew every subtle incline of the seven or eight miles of ground between Hintock and Sherton Abbas the market-town to which he journeyed as accurately as any surveyor could have learned it by a Dumpy level.
"But I suppose it is best to arrange like this?" "Oh yes," he said, quickly. "I feel that I could never have reached Sherton." "It was impossible." "Are you sure you have a snug place out there?" "Quite. Have you found everything you want? I am afraid it is rather rough accommodation." "Can I notice defects? I have long passed that stage, and you know it, Giles, or you ought to."
Little difference would it have made to the present generation, however, had there been such a one, for the family in all its branches, lawful and unlawful, has been extinct these many score years, the last representative but one being killed at the siege of Sherton Castle, while attacking in the service of the Parliament, and the other being outlawed later in the same century for a debt of ten pounds, and dying in the county jail.
"We'll push on," said Gabriel, remounting his humid steed. Although the road along its greater part had been as good as any turnpike-road in the country, it was nominally only a byway. The last turning had brought them into the high road leading to Bath. Coggan recollected himself. "We shall have him now!" he exclaimed. "Where?" "Sherton Turnpike.
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