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"You can sit here as in an arm-chair," said Cary, helping him down to one of those square natural seats so common in the granite tors. "Good; now turn my face to the Shutter. Be sure and exact. So. Do I face it full?" "Full," said Cary. "Then I need no eyes wherewith to see what is before me," said he, with a sad smile.
She thought of their excursions, such as to-day's, to Wenmere Woods, and those others to Helbarrow Tors. They usually took a donkey and cart, and food for a long day, when they went to this last.
They would inquire at every house they passed, and only she did not tell Jabez this, for fear of alarming him if need be, they would search even the tors themselves. It would be very difficult, she knew; but what did difficulties matter at such a time as this?
"'So bonny, says she, 'so bonny and fat and glossy, and the wee bit speckled quey calves they'll be leaving, and with that she walked up the byre and ran her hand over the tors of the beasts, crooning away to herself; and another month saw the last of the kye pic calved. "Well, well, I stood when she came to me, and she smirked at me.
As she wandered with her father among those boggy uplands, or stood on the rocky tors that so strangely crest the low flat hill-tops of the great Devonian moor. She felt a marvelous exhilaration stir her blood the old Cornish freedom making itself felt through all the restrictions of our modern civilization. She was to the manner born, and she loved the Celtic West Country.
'Twas so curious to see the plain thus suddenly fill'd with rabble, all running from the south, and the silly startled sheep rushing helter-skelter, and huddling together on the tors above, that I forgot my own likely danger if any of this revengeful crew should come upon me lying there: and was satisfied to watch them as they straggled over the moors toward the road.
We came to lovely Houndsgate, with a great, deep wonder-valley far below us, only to return to a region of tors and bracken, and to plunge down the most tremendous hill of all a hill which was like gliding down the glassy side of an ocean wave. I had just exclaimed, "See, there's a motor ahead of us!" when an extraordinary thing happened.
Their then encampment was situate on the edge of the forest belt. Beyond the latter the country stretched away in vast, well-nigh treeless plains. Now a peculiar feature of these plains was the frequent recurrence of abrupt granite kopjes, at first glance not unlike moorland tors.
Unshed rains massed on the high tors, but towards the west one great band of primrose sky rolled out above the vanished sun and lighted a million little amber lamps in the hanging crystals of the rain. They twinkled on thorns and briars, on the grass, the silver crosiers of uncurling ferns, and all the rusty-red young heather.
Anna took the reins this time, and whether it was that Mokus felt the firmness of her grip, or guessed that rest and freedom for a few hours lay awaiting him at the end of another mile, no one knew, but he started off down the next hill at quite a quick trot, which he never once slackened until he was drawn up beside the low stone hedge which in some long-past age had been erected around the foot of the tors.
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