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Dimly he recognised his kinship to all such. Meanwhile the carriage bowled along the smooth road and up the long hill, bordered by fir and beech plantations, which leads to Spendle Flats. And there, in the open, the storm came down, in rolling thunder and lashing rain. Tall, shifting, white columns chased each other madly across the bronze expanse of the moorland.
And at that she winced and shrank a little, for all her high spirit and inviolate, maidenly strength. "Oh yes! those fires!" she said hurriedly. "There were several you remember, Cousin Katherine? or I dare say you don't, for you were ill all the time. But the worst was on Spendle Flats.
Horns twanged, heavy wheels rumbled, steaming teams were led away, with drooping heads, into the spacious inn yard, and fresh horses stepped out cheerily to take their place between the traces. The next stage across Spendle Flats was known as a risky one. Legends of Claude Duval and his fellow-highwaymen still haunt the woods and moors that top the long hill going northward.
He reckoned it would save him a couple of miles, let alone the long hill from Farley Row up to Spendle Flats, if on his way back from Grimshott he went by Brockhurst House. It is stretching a point, he admitted, to drive under even your neighbour's back windows at five o'clock in the morning.
Denny arrived in the gun-room, where Ormiston sat smoking, while talking over with Julius the turf-cutting claims of certain squatters on Spendle Flats -arrived, not to summon the latter to further readings of the great Elizabethan poet, but to say to the former: "Will you please come at once, sir? Her ladyship is sitting up.
Because, Cousin Richard it must have been while you were away last year the buckhounds met at Bagshot and ran through Frimley and right across Spendle Flats " "No, they didn't, Cousin Richard," Godfrey interrupted. "They ran through the bottom of Sandyfield Lower Wood." "But they lost any way they lost, Cousin Richard," the younger boy cried.
"All the same," he said, "I am afraid those burnt acres on Spendle Flats are hardly extensive enough to afford an object for me to knock my head against, and so enforce salutary remembrance of the limitations of human science. Possibly that has already been sufficiently brought home to me in other ways." He paused a minute. Honoria straightened herself up.
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